Job overview Specialty Manager – Surgical Division Contract Type: 1.0wte permanent Hours: 37.5 hours per week Job summary Royal Surrey is looking a new Specialty Manager to join the Trust and work within the Surgery Division supporting our surgical specialties. This Specialty Manager post is a key position within the Division's management structure, responsible for providing day-to-day operational management and support, in addition to jointly leading with clinical leads a large amount of service transformation and networked working with other local district general and teaching hospitals. The Specialty Manager is jointly responsible with the Clinical Director and Matron for the effective strategic and operational management of the Strategic Business Unit's (SBU), ensuring the delivery of high quality patient services Advert The Specialty Manager with the Clinical Director and Matron will provide overall leadership and direction to the specialties and services they oversee. The post-holder will co-ordinate the activities of the SBU (alongside the managers and matrons of the other departments), as well as working with allied health professional teams that support patients, thereby ensuring seamless clinical services are provided. Interview to be held 11th November 2025 Working for our organisation Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure. We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley. We have received an overall Good rating from the CQC with Medical care (including older peoples care), End of Life Care and Maternity services being deemed Outstanding by the CQC. Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us. Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible. A video about the Royal Surrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HsiGn9joTQ Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the full Job decription & person Specification for all details The Specialty Manager will develop and manage the activity plans for the SBU ensuring that service pathways and capacity and demand analysis is understood ensuring the delivery of outstanding services. This will include playing a key role in identifying opportunities for clinical innovation and modernisation, the delivery of all operational performance targets, financial management, bed utilisation and management. Continually improving the quality of services to patients and redesigning services to meet best practice standards, improving efficiency and effectiveness and available resources. The post-holder will be responsible for securing the commitment of all staff in the SBU to organisational change and continuous improvement. Strategic Responsibility · Working with the Clinical Director and Matron provide leadership to the SBU to ensure the effective delivery of clinical and non - clinical services; · Lead the development of the SBU’s strategic direction in line with Portfolio’s overall strategy and ensuring that all strategic plans are incorporated into service plans and objectives for all staff; · Develop short, medium and long-term objectives, which are turned into effective, affordable and achievable annual service plans for the SBU and the portfolio, and deliver these plans within the financial resources available; · Develop a culture within the SBU/s in which all staff are delivering high quality patient-centred clinical and support services; · Formulate new service development initiatives, ensuring business cases are produced, taking into account trust governance and standing financial instruction, activity and income projections; · Review and redesign services to meet the needs of patients and enable the SBU to achieve its key performance indicators; · Lead the planning of future capital developments for the SBU/s to deliver improved facilities for patients, ensuring that developments are designed around the service; · Develop robust mechanisms to ensure clear communication of service plans, objectives and service changes within the SBU ensuring that staff are engaged directly in any review and development of services;