Centre General Manager

Bupa; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday + length of service

Health insurance

Enhanced pension & life cover

Annual performance bonus

Onsite gym/local discounts

Other benefits

Job summary

Bupa is seeking a senior leader to drive the performance and growth of its London outpatient and diagnostic centre. You will oversee clinical governance, operations, and commercial strategies, partnering with consultants and senior leaders to deliver patient-centered care and growth across services.

You will lead transformation, manage finances, and ensure regulatory compliance while shaping future service development in a high-profile independent healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent), with formal leadership training.
• Proven experience leading outpatient, diagnostic, or ambulatory healthcare services.
• Previous leadership experience within the independent healthcare sector.
• Strong financial, operational, and commercial management experience within a complex healthcare environment.
• Demonstrable experience managing consultant relationships and supporting practice growth.
• Proven ability to lead organisational change, service transformation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Commercially astute, with a track record of delivering business growth and innovation.
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks including CQC, IR(ME)R, and GPhC.
• Master’s degree in Healthcare Management/ MBA; Clinical background.
• Experience within a consultant-led independent healthcare organisation.
• Experience operating within Central London healthcare markets.

Responsibilities

• Lead all operational and clinical activities across the centre, ensuring high standards of care, safety, and service.
• Drive financial performance, identifying opportunities for growth, efficiency, and service development across all business areas.
• Identify and deliver new business opportunities, supporting consultant growth, expanding services, and increasing revenue.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with consultants, supporting practice growth, referral generation, and the introduction of new services.
• Lead the centre through ongoing transformation, driving improvements in patient experience, operational performance, service delivery, and long-term commercial success.
• Drive exceptional patient experience, using customer feedback, quality metrics, and service data to continuously improve outcomes and satisfaction.
• Oversee property and estates management, ensuring a world-class environment for patients, consultants, and colleagues.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, accountability, and change management.
• Act as the CQC Registered Manager, ensuring compliance with all regulatory, governance, and quality requirements.
• Collaborate with the wider Health Services leadership team to deliver Bupa's Connected Care strategy.
• Lead and inspire a multidisciplinary team, embedding a high-performance culture and strong employee engagement.

Skills

Leadership

Financial management

Commercial acumen

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

Service development

Consultant relationships

Clinical governance

Communication

Strategic growth

Team leadership

Patient-centered care

Regulatory knowledge

Clinical background

London market experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Master’s degree in Healthcare Management / MBA

Job description

Reporting to the Director - Outpatients & Diagnostic Centres, you'll be responsible for the overall performance, operations, clinical governance, and strategic growth of the centre. You will ensure clinical care is delivered to an outstanding standard while playing a key role in shaping the future direction of the business through growth, innovation, service development, and delivery of Bupa's Connected Care strategy.

This is a unique opportunity to lead one of London's leading independent healthcare centres, working alongside renowned consultants and senior leaders to deliver exceptional patient-centred care and commercial success.

How you'll help us make health happen

• Lead all operational and clinical activities across the centre, ensuring high standards of care, safety, and service.
• Drive financial performance, identifying opportunities for growth, efficiency, and service development across all business areas.
• Identify and deliver new business opportunities, supporting consultant growth, expanding services, and increasing revenue.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with consultants, supporting practice growth, referral generation, and the introduction of new services.
• Lead the centre through ongoing transformation, driving improvements in patient experience, operational performance, service delivery, and long-term commercial success.
• Drive exceptional patient experience, using customer feedback, quality metrics, and service data to continuously improve outcomes and satisfaction.
• Oversee property and estates management, ensuring a world-class environment for patients, consultants, and colleagues.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, accountability, and change management.
• Act as the CQC Registered Manager, ensuring compliance with all regulatory, governance, and quality requirements.
• Collaborate with the wider Health Services leadership team to deliver Bupa's Connected Care strategy.
• Lead and inspire a multidisciplinary team, embedding a high-performance culture and strong employee engagement.

Key Skills / Qualifications

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent), with formal leadership training.
• Proven experience leading outpatient, diagnostic, or ambulatory healthcare services.
• Previous leadership experience within the independent healthcare sector.
• Strong financial, operational, and commercial management experience within a complex healthcare environment.
• Demonstrable experience managing consultant relationships and supporting practice growth.
• Proven ability to lead organisational change, service transformation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Commercially astute, with a track record of delivering business growth and innovation.
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks including CQC, IR(ME)R, and GPhC.
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• Master's degree in Healthcare Management, Business Administration (MBA), or similar.
• Clinical background.
• Experience within a consultant-led independent healthcare organisation.
• Experience operating within Central London healthcare markets.

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social, and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family-friendly benefits.

• Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
• Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell.
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind.
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance.
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available.
• Various other benefits and online discounts.

Why Bupa?

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to ”Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.