Job summary
- Main area
- Management
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 391-RFL-7690331
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Barnet Hospital
- Town
- Barnet
- Salary
- £82,906 - £94,632 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Band 8c General Manager for ED
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
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Job overview
Urgent and emergency medicine are seeking a dynamic general manager to lead our Emergency Medicine department at Barnet. With a brand new building we are seeking a forward thinking, experienced performance focussed individual to deliver an ambitious UEC portfolio which will include SDEC, UTC, Ambulance handover and Paediatric ED.
For more information please contact Jo Elias
Main duties of the job
Reporting to the DDO, the postholder will provide operational leadership for the directorate’s services, ensuring delivery within agreed budgets, activity levels, and standards of clinical quality. This senior role supports the DD and DDO across all sites where divisional services operate, with a primary base at one site but requiring travel for visibility across the division.
The postholder holds delegated responsibility for operational management, implementing national and local strategies, and achieving service objectives within available resources. Working closely with senior clinical and non-clinical leaders, they will drive effective leadership, management, and capacity to support transformation and service delivery. They will ensure decisions made by the DDO are translated into action and key programmes are delivered successfully.
As part of the directorate triumvirate with the Head of Nursing and Clinical Director, the General Manager will foster staff engagement in delivering divisional strategy. The role includes deputising for the DDO and providing cross-cover for other General Managers within the division.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.
Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top
For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Person specification
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Education & professional qualifications
Essential criteria
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
- Post graduate management qualification at master’s level or equivalent experience
- vidence of recent and ongoing continuing personal development relevant to the role
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial senior management experience, in the NHS or other healthcare
- Evidence of leading and managing change within a complex environment
- Strategic planning and project management
- Managing large and complex budgets
- Managing a cross-site, complex function
Personal qualities & aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Ability to work under pressure and flexibly in a dynamic environment
- Diplomatic style with political acumen
- Attention to detail
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Leadership of a multidisciplinary team and delivering to deadlines and within resources.
- Significant operational management experience in a complex healthcare organisation
- Management of staff
- Effective communication skills
- Service planning and project management
- Broad understanding of the NHS and key policy issues which effect performance
- Aptitude to engage in constructive collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to achieve success through partnership
- Significant complex budgetary management
- Demonstrates excellent negotiation skills
- Ability to achieve effective team working within the division and across divisions
- Numerate, IT literate, analytical and able to use business intelligence effectively
- Demonstrate advanced influencing and negotiation skills
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jo Elias
- Job title
- Director of Operations for M&UC
- Email address
- [email protected]
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