Band 8c General Manager for ED

NHS; Chipping Barnet; On-site; GBP 82,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a dynamic General Manager for the Emergency Medicine department in Chipping Barnet. The role involves providing operational leadership, managing complex budgets, and fostering staff engagement within a forward-thinking team. Candidates should have substantial senior management experience in healthcare and possess a postgraduate management qualification. The salary ranges from £82,906 to £94,632 annually, and it offers engaging career opportunities within a supportive environment.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Generous benefits

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values.
• Substantial senior management experience in healthcare.
• Ability to manage large and complex budgets.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational leadership for the Emergency Medicine department.
• Implement national and local strategies to achieve service objectives.
• Drive effective leadership and management to support transformation.

Skills

Leadership of a multidisciplinary team

Operational management experience

Service planning

Budget management

Stakeholder collaboration

Analytical skills

Negotiation skills

Education

Post graduate management qualification or equivalent

Job description

Urgent and emergency medicine are seeking a dynamic general manager to lead our Emergency Medicine department at Barnet. With a brand new building we are seeking a forward thinking, experienced performance focussed individual to deliver an ambitious UEC portfolio which will include SDEC, UTC, Ambulance handover and Paediatric ED.

Reporting to the DDO, the postholder will provide operational leadership for the directorate's services, ensuring delivery within agreed budgets, activity levels, and standards of clinical quality. This senior role supports the DD and DDO across all sites where divisional services operate, with a primary base at one site but requiring travel for visibility across the division.

The postholder holds delegated responsibility for operational management, implementing national and local strategies, and achieving service objectives within available resources. Working closely with senior clinical and non-clinical leaders, they will drive effective leadership, management, and capacity to support transformation and service delivery. They will ensure decisions made by the DDO are translated into action and key programmes are delivered successfully.

As part of the directorate triumvirate with the Head of Nursing and Clinical Director, the General Manager will foster staff engagement in delivering divisional strategy. The role includes deputising for the DDO and providing cross-cover for other General Managers within the division.

Main duties of the job

See attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

About us

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.

Person Specification

Royal Free World Class Values

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
• Post graduate management qualification at master's level or equivalent experience
• Evidence of recent and ongoing continuing personal development relevant to the role

Experience

• Substantial senior management experience, in the NHS or other healthcare
• Evidence of leading and managing change within a complex environment
• Strategic planning and project management
• Managing large and complex budgets
• Managing a cross-site, complex function
• Ability to work under pressure and flexibly in a dynamic environment
• Diplomatic style with political acumen

Skills and knowledge

• Leadership of a multidisciplinary team and delivering to deadlines and within resources.
• Significant operational management experience in a complex healthcare organisation
• Management of staff
• Service planning and project management
• Broad understanding of the NHS and key policy issues which effect performance
• Aptitude to engage in constructive collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to achieve success through partnership
• Significant complex budgetary management
• Ability to achieve effective team working within the division and across divisions
• Numerate, IT literate, analytical and able to use business intelligence effectively
• Demonstrate advanced influencing and negotiation skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£82,906 to £94,632 a year inclusive of HCAS