General Manager for Vascular Surgery

This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the 'Supporting Documents' heading. So that you're even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you'll need to take time to read the 'Candidate Essentials Guide' that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how 'we care for you as you care for others'. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you'll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in your application

Here at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, we're proud to be ALL HERE FOR YOU-for our patients, our communities, and each other.

As part of our commitment to fairness, transparency, and personal integrity, we ask all applicants to ensure that their job applications reflect their own experiences, skills, and motivations. While AI tools can support spelling, grammar, or formatting, we expect that the content of your application-especially personal statements and responses to role-specific questions-is written by you. This helps us get to know the real you and ensures that our recruitment process remains equitable and meaningful for everyone.

Thank you for helping us uphold the values that make our Trust a place where people belong, grow, and thrive. We look forward to receiving your application.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, please contact the manager named below.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Graduate or or equivalent level of experience
• Managerial qualification equivalent to post graduate diploma or equivalent experience
• Master's Degree or equivalent experience.

Desirable criteria

• Experience or qualification relating to specialty

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Highly specialist knowledge of managing within a NHS healthcare setting.
• Detailed knowledge and experience of managing capacity, demand and activity.
• Knowledge of managing staff within a healthcare setting and experience of managing a Directorate.
• Knowledge and experience of project/programme management.

Training & Experience

Essential criteria

• Proven experience of and demonstrable achievement in managing healthcare services
• Management of re- sources with a good track record with change management, budget management, efficiency savings and financial recovery plans
• Experience of project management and imaginative planning
• Experience of managing a diverse team
• Measurable track record in involving and motivating staff to improve performance
• Experience of successfully managing the implementation of change
• Experience of identifying education and training needs of staff
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Desirable criteria

• Experience in workforce planning.
• Experience in setting establishments and using workforce toolkits including dependency tools.
• Experience in R&D.
• Experience of modernising services without additional resources.
• Experience of developing and maintaining effective partnerships with stakeholders in the redesign of services.
• Evidence of professional leadership, leading to innovation in practice
• Experience in clinical audit/benchmarking.
• Experienced in complaints management.

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to present highly complex and emotive information clearly and openly with staff.
• An open and facilitative style of leadership which can be adapted when necessary to ensure delivery of objectives.
• Able to hold professionals and peers to account.
• Good project management skills and the ability to see through tasks to their successful conclusion within timescales and budgets.
• Good performance management skills combining clarity around expectations, direction and holding others to account.
• Ability to analyse performance, capacity and demand and financial information.
• Excellent numerical and presentational skills.
• Negotiating and influencing skills.
• Ability to make calm rational decisions in the face of adversity.

Desirable criteria

• An understanding of effective systems for integrated governance and the management of clinical and non-clinical risks.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to consider the wider picture.

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

• General Manager JD & PS (PDF, 384.4KB)
• Functional Requirements V8 (PDF, 920.2KB)
• Candidate Essential Guide Non Medical (PDF, 1.3MB)