Job summary
- Main area
- General Surgery, Audiology, Density, Maxfax
- Grade
- Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 200-NN-7290589-A&C-Z
- Employer
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Georges Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £99,808 - £113,803 p.a. pro rata inclusive of HCAS (Inner)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
General Manager for Surgical Services
Band 8d
Job overview
The General Manager is responsible with the Clinical Director and Head of Nursing for the effective strategic and operational management of a defined set of Directorates, ensuring the delivery of high-quality patient services within the resources available. The post-holder is responsible for the management of all non-clinical staff in the Directorates, ensuring staff are managed in line with the Trust’s employment policies.
Main duties of the job
The General Manager will provide leadership and direction to the services in the Directorates, taking the lead with the Clinical Director for developing the strategy for the Directorates in line with the Trust’s overall strategy and transformation programme.
This will include playing a key role in identifying opportunities for clinical innovation and modernisation, the delivery of all operational performance targets, waiting list and financial management, bed utilisation and management.
The General Manager is responsible through clinical teams for continually improving the quality of services to patients, and redesigning services to meet best practice standards, improving efficiency and effectiveness within available resources.
The post-holder will be a leading change agent in the Trust’s transformation programme and will be responsible for securing the commitment of all staff in the Directorates to organisational change and continuous improvement.
Working for our organisation
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
**Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document, which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification**
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent professional qualification
- Post graduate management qualification or equivalent knowledge gained through experience
- Master’s Degree or equivalent years of experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Senior management experience (band 8c or above) in the NHS (or related employer/ sector), which must include experience of directly managing staff and non-pay budgets at a middle management level
- Experience of providing services to a high quality with restricted resources
- Experience and evidence of achieving significant cost reduction at a service and Directorate level
- Managing a range of staff groups, with evidence of delivering reduced sickness absence levels and improved appraisals rates, etc
skills
Essential criteria
- Able to make and take sometimes difficult decisions after analysis of options and implications
- Able to provide strategic direction and leadership within the Directorates without adopting a dictatorial style
- Able to use Microsoft Word & IT Literate to produce reports
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.
If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:
- The machine readable zone
- An ultra violet image
- An infra red image
As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
Email: [email protected].
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Kim Jordan
- Job title
- SNCT divisional PA
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8725 2551
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
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- Telephone
- 07553088512
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