Main area South West London Adult Critical Care Network Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 200-NN-7391246-A&C-Y
Employer St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site St Georges Hospital Town London Salary £64,156 - £71,148 Including inner london HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 13/11/2025 23:59
South West London Adult Critical Care Network Manager
Band 8a
Job overview
The South West London Adult Critical Care Network (SWL ACCN) covers fivetrusts in South West London (St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, Croydon Health Services, Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust) who provide critical care services across 6 sites.
The network is a key vehicle to facilitate and improve equity of access, experience and health outcomes for patients within South West London requiring critical care.
The post holder will have regular contact with a wide range of clinical and managerial staff, administrative and clerical support staff at many levels and occasionally with patients, relatives and external agencies.
We are looking for an individual with good leadership skills to influence external agencies and bodies in decision making on Critical Care services, by working with other organisations in the statutory, non-statutory and private sectors including the NHS England, Care Quality Commission, Monitor, Health and Well Being Boards, Local Education and Training Boards, Academic Health Science Networks, NICE, Royal Colleges, senates, voluntary organisations etc.
Main duties of the job
The Network team works collaboratively in South West London to deliver projects such as:
* Training and education including transfer training courses
* Peer review and facilitation of forums reviewing operational performance
* Support with continuity plans and resilience
* Clinical standardisation and equity of access to care.
* Professional forums, training and events for critical care staff groups to share best practice and access training and development
* Increasing co-operation and communication between critical care units
* Working collaboratively with other London networks on shared initiatives.
The overall responsibility of the Network Manager is to facilitate and improve the quality of healthcare for the SWL population by improving equity of access, reduction of unwarranted variation in clinical outcomes and provision of high-quality adult critical care services.
Working for our organisation
Organisational Values:
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust aims to be a thriving Foundation Trust at the heart of an integrated healthcare system. One that delivers improved patient care at a community, hospital and specialist setting, supported by a unique and nationally recognised programme of research, education, and employee engagement. We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflects these.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a full detailed job description and person specification please see attached documentation for details.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Education
* Degree and/or equivalent experience
* Evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development.
* Post graduate management qualification or equivalent level of study
Knowledge and experience
* NHS Operational Management experience at band 7 or equivalent
* Experience of working with a wide range of stakeholders, including service users
* Proven success in managing complex programmes of organisational change while maintaining service quality
* Evidence of using proactive and collaborative problem solving to resolve issues
* Proven track record of meeting regional and national targets.
* Significant budget management experience, including reducing costs and determining corrective action
* Evidence of complex report writing and presentation skills, to include business cases and formal presentations
* Understanding of the relationship between NHS England, individual provider and commissioning organisations
* Experience of dealing with complex issues in large organisations
* Experience of developing and implementing sector-wide strategic plans at a senior level
* Experience of working within an Operational Delivery Network
* Experience of working within adult critical care
* Knowledge and experience of best practice process improvement techniques across a range of sectors
* Understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy
* Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance and development of the individuals
* Experience of contract negotiation and management
Skills & Attributes
* Excellent communication skills with a wide range of staff with different levels of responsibility and professional backgrounds
* Full range of IT skills
* Ability to work pro-actively and cooperatively with senior management and clinical staff, including at times of high levels of pressure
* Ability to manage multiple deadlines and competing priorities
* Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium, and longterm timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
* Ability to plan and organise own workload without direct supervision
* Able to attend meetings outside of normal working hours and at times of exceptional service demand e.g. a declared major incident/activation of NHS Strategic Command
* Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
* Able to support Network leadership in contingency management
Your recruitment team
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Your application
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Closing date
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Shortlisting
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Application numbers
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Name Charminia Fletcher Job title Deputy Divisional Director of Operations Email address Charminia.Fletcher00@stgeorges.nhs.uk Telephone number 07792794045
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