Job description

Job responsibilities

We are inviting expressions of interest for a acting up/secondment into the role of General Manager for Medical Specialties, Frailty and General Medicine, this is an interim post for initially 6 months.

The General Manager is a high-profile leadership role within the Trust. Together with the Head of Nursing, the post holder will be responsible for overall management/ leadership of the designated care groups. Working with the management teams, clinical leads, matrons and senior AHP leads, to develop and evaluate all services within their remit.

The General Manager will ensure that effective and efficient structures are in place to ensure that all standards of patient care are met, and associated risk and governance matters are managed. The post holder will support the Head of Nursing and Clinical Leads in developing efficient and effective patient centred services, meeting key financial and operational performance targets, and putting in place effective processes for delivering national / local targets, reviewing the efficiency and effectiveness of services in terms of cost effectiveness and financial flows.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership across designated Care Groups.
• Deliver high-quality, efficient and patient-centred services.
• Lead service improvement, transformation and redesign initiatives.
• Ensure delivery of financial, workforce, quality and operational performance targets.
• Develop strong partnerships with clinicians, corporate teams and external stakeholders.
• Oversee governance, risk management, patient experience and regulatory compliance.
• Lead and develop multidisciplinary management teams, fostering an inclusive and high-performing culture.
• Support business planning, commissioning, contracting and service development activities.
• Drive the use of data, digital innovation and evidence-based decision-making to improve outcomes.

For an informal discussion contact Emma Bright, Interim Divisional Director of Operations.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Education to a masters degree level or equivalent experience
• Recognised post-graduate management qualification or equivalent
• experience

Experience

Essential

• Significant general and operational management experience to include
• the management of a large multi-disciplinary group of staff part of which
• to have been in the NHS.
• A proven record of success in managing significant operational / strategic
• change whilst also developing and maintaining the provision of a highquality
• service, within a clinical setting, with multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience of team working and building and maintaining effective
• working relationships in a multidisciplinary environment
• Fully developing staff potential through facilitating training, development
• and education initiatives
• Demonstrable ability to lead and influence
• Evidence of sound budgetary management experience
• Experience in service redesign and project management

Desirable

• Experience of working with external organisations (GP practices, social
• services, community services, local authority, etc)
• Experience in managing quality/ clinical audit/ clinical governance/ risk
• management issues

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.

Employer details

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

The Princess Alexandra Hospital

Harlow

Essex

CM20 1QX

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.pah.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)