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

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced operational manager to join the Trauma Directorate at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The services in this portfolio include Major Trauma, Plastic Surgery, Neurosurgery. Trauma and Orthopaedics and Limb Fitting Services.

This role will will work both operationally and strategically across allocated services within the Directorate. There are two Deputy General Manager roles within the Directorate, with an expectation to work closely and cross cover. There may be a requirement to rotate between services to ensure resilience and offer ongoing development opportunities. This role will line manage service and business managers, deputise for the General Manager and will work alongside nursing and medical leadership.

This role is ideal for an existing Deputy General Manager looking to broaden their NHS experience, or a Business Manager aiming to make the next step in their career progression.

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 and service management team.
• Under the Directorate General Managers Leadership the Deputy General Manager will:
• Be accountable to the General Manager for the operational performance of the directorate's services
• Lead the directorate's business management team.
• Be accountable for delivery of financial targets for the directorate's services
• Deputise for the General Manager

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.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

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

Essential criteria

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

SKILLS/ABILITIES

Essential criteria

• Experience of managing projects
• Ability to analyse highly complex problems and situations and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them
• Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources
• Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working
• 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

EXPERIENCE

Essential criteria

• Senior management experience and demonstrable capability and capacity in a complex healthcare environment
• Demonstrable success in project management
• Proven success in delivering change and performance improvement
• Experience of service redesign and development
• Experience dealing with complex and/or sensitive information and unpredictable situations

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

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, 527.1KB)
• Functional Requirement Form (PDF, 232.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)