Job overview

***INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY***

Are you passionate about NHS operational management, passionate about delivering effective, safe and efficient services and passionate about service improvement? Then, the Surgical Division at Wye Valley NHS Trust would like to hear from you.

We are looking for a suitably qualified and experienced candidate to join our Divisional Management team as General Manager for the Womens & Childrens Directorate. This is a demanding, yet rewarding post in a high profile Directorate that includes a number of key services, including our maternity service. You will have highly developed leadership skills, high levels of personal motivation and resilience and a proven ability to lead and deliver success through multi-disciplinary teams.

If this sounds of interest to you, please get in touch.

For informal discussions, please contact [email protected] to arrange a suitable time.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have responsibility for the daily operational management of the Womens & Childrens Directorate, leading the Directorate alongside the Clinical Director and Matron and working with the Associate Director of Midwifery to deliver high quality, safe, efficient and cost effective services.

This is an exciting time for the Surgical Division at Wye Valley NHS Trust. During 2024 we opened our new Elective Surgical Hub and throughout 2025, we will continue on our journey to make significant positive change to our planned care pathways, building on the productivity and patient experience improvements we have already made. To this end, the successful candidate will lead key service improvement workstreams within their Directorate. Our Maternity service also forms a key part of the Womens and Childrens portfolio, making this position a unique role within the Trust. More broadly, the successful candidate will ensure key operational targets are delivered, alongside ensuring robust governance arrangements are in place.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT ,  George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.