A Vacancy at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
We are looking for an experienced, motivated and passionate senior operational manager to join our Medicine & Cardiovascular Division as General Manager for Cardiology, Cardiac, Vascular and Thoracic surgery .
The cardiovascular networks bring together partners from across South London and neighbouring Kent, Surrey, and Sussex to drive clinically led
improvements in outcomes and quality of care across patient pathways, in patient experience, and in value for money. The networks support
organisations, clinicians and patients by providing access to specialist resources and expertise, including advice on strategic change and co-commissioning. This clinical leadership enables partnership working to achieve benefits, in particular reconfiguration of pathways through
prioritisation of interventions that will result in significant savings, contributing to the delivery of high-quality, cost-effective patient care.
Cardiology at SGH includes a range of sub-specialities, offering a service to both the local population and nationally, providing outpatient, community, specialist diagnostic and inpatient care including a 24/7 heart attack centre.
The successful candidate will join a dedicated and committed team within one of the busiest and most challenging of directorates where you will be
responsible for a wide portfolio covering tertiary medicine and surgical services whilst also being open as one the largest Heart Attack Centres.
You will demonstrate an in-depth understanding of elective and emergency care whilst working alongside the complexities of the
current economical climate and managing tertiary care for the local and national population the directorate serves. The role requires for you to have excellent communication skills, a passion for delivering high quality patient care enabled through working closely alongside the medical and nursing leadership.
You will have previously managed large diverse services including staff, budget and performance measures, alongside the development of strategic plans.
This is an exciting time to join our team, and this role will be pivotal for the organisation in driving forward the sustainable change needed to improve our service to patients
The General Manager is responsible, with the Clinical Director and Head of Nursing, for the effective strategic and operational management of the Directorate. Key deliverables will be to:
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality patient services within the resources available.
• Oversee the management of all non-clinical staff in the Directorate, ensuring staff are managed in line with the Trust’s employment policies.
• Provide leadership and direction to the services in the Directorate, taking the lead with the Clinical Directors and Head of Nursing for developing the strategy for the Directorate in line with the Trust’s overall strategy and transformation programme.
• Identify opportunities for clinical innovation and modernisation, the delivery of all operational performance targets, waiting list and financial management, bed utilisation and management.
• Continually improve the quality of services to patients, and ensuring services meet best practice standards by improving efficiency and effectiveness within available resources.
• Deliver services within an agreed financial envelope and identifying savings in line with CIP targets.
This advert closes on Friday 29 Aug 2025
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