Deputy General Manager

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career. We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

We are looking for an exceptional candidate to join the Directorate of Maternity & Neonatology within Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The Maternity Service at Imperial College Healthcare Trust is one of the largest services in the UK providing tertiary Maternity services across two hospital sites; Queen Charlottes and Chelsea Hospital and St Mary's Hospital. The directorate also has a Neonatal Intensive Care unit at Queen Charlotte's site and a level 2 Neonatal Baby unit at St Mary's hospital site.

The service provides antenatal services across both sites and also in the community. There are two birth centres (one on each site), as well as the delivery suites and support to home births. Postnatal services are provided within the children centres in the community. The Directorate also supports pre-pregnancy planning, parent education and breast feeding post birth. The post holder will work alongside their management colleagues and lead consultants and midwives for the specialist services they are responsible for.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will report to the General Manager and will provide appropriate support to the General Manager and the Clinical Director in the delivery of all operational functions in the directorate. The individual will have responsibility for defined services and allocated resources. A specific requirement of this post is to lead the business management team.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Relevant first degree, equivalent professional qualification or suitable experience
• Relevant post graduate courses or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria

• Senior management experience and demonstrable capability and capacity in a complex healthcare environment
• Demonstrable success in project management
• Experience of business planning within the context of the NHS

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to think strategically and laterally
• High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude
• Understanding of equal opportunity issues and how they translate in practice
• Excellent IT and financial skills including the ability to create and handle large document using word processing skills, producing spreadsheets and analysis for presentation at meetings

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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

• Job description (PDF, 768.5KB)
• Functional Requirement Form (PDF, 232.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)