General Manager Surgery and Cancer Division

General Manager Surgery and Cancer Division

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Surgery and Cancer Division as a General Manager. This post offers a great opportunity for someone wishing to lead a range of services, while collaborating across North Central London to deliver the best treatment possible for patients.

You will be operationally responsible for an array of specialty services ensuring excellent performance, demonstrating strong leadership, and developing services to ensure the delivery of high-quality patient care.

Key objectives will be to deliver against the national access standards, while ensuring that patients receive an excellent experience. Lead service transformation and work as a leader to develop a high-performing team and enhance our specialty services collaborations including the WH and UCLH Southern Elective Hub. In addition, you will contribute to the flow of the hospital through supporting the inpatient wards and overall S&C bed base.

You will be part of the senior ICSU management team and will assist the Clinical Director, Director of Operations, and Associate Director of Nursing in delivering the Trust's strategic and operational agenda. You will oversee day-to-day management issues, liaising with departments and teams as required. You will provide line management for non-nursing key staff within the departments and will lead the business planning process for surgical specialties and be a key enabler to delivering the surgical elective contracted activity plan.

Main duties of the job

Working as a Senior member of the Divisional Team, the General Manager will support the operational management of specialty departments & Clinical Teams in the planning and delivery of clinical services and ensure the achievement of key objectives. The post holder will work across organisational boundaries to ensure appropriate services are in place and to deliver national and local strategic and operational service objectives and standards.

This will include responsibility for all aspects of planning, including service planning, project management, and the production of business cases, ensuring that there are systems in place to monitor and measure Divisional and Specialty performance. They will have direct responsibility for ensuring that resources are utilised efficiently.

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Job responsibilities

General Duties

• Deputise for the Deputy DOO as required.
• Being part of the Silver on Call rota.
• Accountable to the DOO for a major area of activity.
• Accountable for a multi-million-pound budget and associated physical resources.
• Accountable for the performance, budget, quality, and workforce for a major area of activity.
• Responsible for the recruitment, line management of Service managers, appraisal, staff development, and performance.
• Responsible for policy and service development within the areas they are accountable for.
• Operates independently, manages department, interprets organisational policies.

Education / Qualifications

• Masters level qualification or equivalent experience.
• Management qualification (or equivalent management experience).

Skills & Abilities

• Excellent analytical skills and able to interpret multiple data sources and translate into significant improvement projects.
• Excellent writing skills to be able to write reports to the level of the executive committee and the Trust's Senior Management Group (TMG).
• Excellent communication skills to be able to relay complex information to internal and external colleagues and patients/families.
• Able to work flexibly and contribute to the programme of change using advanced negotiating skills.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Excellent time management and organising skills.
• Demonstrates tenacity in dealing with issues.
• IT literate.

Knowledge & Experience

• Experience of working in the NHS at a senior level.
• Current understanding of the challenges facing the NHS and Health Service management.
• Understanding of improvement methodology and change management.
• Knowledge of the Quality and Assurance Framework.
• Experience of service management at a senior level.
• Experience of managing challenging and emotional situations.
• Experience of management over a million-pound budget.
• Notable change management experience.

PERSONAL QUALITIES

• Ability to create a positive working environment putting patients and staff first.
• Willing to learn.
• Able to work well in a team.
• Ensure all practice carry the trust values.
• Commitment to developing a culture of responsibility and accountability.
• Effective communicator / negotiator/ influencer.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£70,387 to £80,465 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS.