Employer University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Leicester Royal Infirmary Town Leicester Salary £62,215 - £72,293 per annum / pro rota for part time hours Salary period Yearly Closing 08/06/2025 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 8b
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Job overview
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced General Manager to join our leadership team and play a pivotal role in delivering outstanding healthcare services to our community. This is a critical post, providing the operational leadership and strategic oversight necessary to ensure our teams can deliver safe, efficient, and compassionate care.
As General Manager, you will oversee key aspects of service delivery, resource management, and performance monitoring. Your ability to drive efficiency, meet challenging targets, and foster a positive, collaborative environment will be essential to the success of our services.
This role is not just about managing day-to-day operations; it’s about making a real difference. With unprecedented demands on healthcare, your leadership will directly impact our ability to deliver patient-centered care and maintain high standards across all areas.
We are looking for someone with:
* Proven experience in operational management, preferably within healthcare.
* Strong leadership and decision-making skills underpinned by a track record of delivering results.
* The ability to inspire and support teams in a high-pressure environment.
If you are ready to take on a role where no two days are the same and are passionate about driving excellence in healthcare, we want to hear from you
Main duties of the job
· Providing leadership to the broad team of professionals within the Women's hospital and the CMG.
· Deliver strategic plans for service delivery and development.
· Management of staff performance, budget and KPIs.
· Ensure governance and risk management processes are adhered to.
· Work with the team to ensure a high standard of patient care.
· Be mindful to strategy, ensuring future proofing of services
Working for our organisation
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We have four primary goals:
* high-quality care for all,
* being a great place to work,
* partnerships for impact, and
* research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
* we are compassionate,
* we are proud,
* we are inclusive, and
* we are one team
This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for providing operational and strategic planning to ensure the Gynaecology service provides high quality patient care and achieves performance objectives. To promote staff wellbeing and recruitment and retention of staff including medical and non-medical.
Person specification
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
* Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s Values and Behaviours
Training & Qualifications
* First degree or equivalent
* Extensive up to date knowledge of the NHS
* Evidence of CPD
* Evidence of other specialist knowledge at higher degree or masters level
Experience
* Experience within the Healthcare sector at senior manager level including operational responsibility for complex specialities/service
* Proven track record of achieving challenging healthcare targets
* Experience of delivering programmes of change within an NHS setting
* Experience of managing and hearing performance issues
* Well-developed IT skills to manage and report on complex performance management information
* Experience of working in an Acute Teaching hospital
Communication and relationship skills
* Excellent communications skills, written and oral
* Evidence of being a team-player but able to stand back when necessary
* Ability to motivate staff to deliver challenging targets
* Ability to present complex data
* Ability to manage conflict
Analytical and Judgement skills
* Logical thinker with evidence of implementation of ideas and solutions
* Excellent problem solving skills using team when appropriate
* Able to analyse and understand complex financial and clinical data
* Business focused
* Sensitive to clinical and political demands
* Ability to cut through barriers to change
Additional Information
Please submit yourapplicationform without delay toavoiddisappointment; we will close vacancies prior to the publishing closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.
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UHL is an equal opportunities employer. We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds who match our job criteria.
Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be interviewed if you indicate you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.
UHL is committed to helping colleagues balance the demands of both their work and personal needs through flexible working arrangements wherever reasonably practicable and subject to service needs.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
Please note if you are successful in obtaining this position and the post involves regulated activity you will be required to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check.
The Trust will pay for the check initially and the money will then be deducted from your salary over a three month period commencing on your first month's payment.
The current price of a check is £38 for an enhanced and £18 for a standard check.
Due to the current Covid pandemic we have introduced a staff risk assessment into our pre-employment process. This now forms part of the mandatory pre-employment checks that will be carried out if you receive a conditional offer.
The risk assessment is intended to ensure you are able to safely perform your duties in any of our work areas, and if you have been identified as being particularly vulnerable to coronavirus. Our main aim is to reduce risk and to ensure the safety of all new starters to the Trust as well as current staff, patients and visitors.
If it is identified that you are within a vulnerable category, we will endeavorto make reasonable adjustments to accommodate this through discussions with both Occupational Health and your recruiting manager.
Covid-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, family, colleagues and our patients/service users from the Covid-19 virus. We therefore continue to encourage our current and potential colleagues to get vaccinated.
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust holds the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of everything it does and all that it stands for. We are committed to developing a workforce that is representative of the community we serve. We welcome applications from the diverse community of Leicester, Leicester and Rutland, to help deliver healthcare services that meets the needs of our diverse communities.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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