Childrens Hospital Surgical Directorate General Manager

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Nottingham seeks a General Manager for the Children's Hospital Surgical Directorate. In this role, you will be the operational lead, ensuring high-quality service delivery while managing performance, finance, and transformation initiatives. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in managing complex healthcare services and possess robust leadership and communication skills. This is an excellent opportunity to make a meaningful impact on patient care and service efficiency.

Benefits

Endless personal development opportunities

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Successful management experience at a senior level with applicable specialist knowledge.
• Experience leading substantial service change and redesign.

Responsibilities

• Ensure operational performance targets are achieved.
• Lead on several key programmes essential for departmental success.

Skills

Leadership

Financial management

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Strategic planning

Education

Degree or equivalent in relevant field

Management experience at senior level

Job description

Go back Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Childrens Hospital Surgical Directorate General Manager

The closing date is 28 December 2025

Be the operational lead for the Surgical Directorate of the Childrens hospital leading on performance and finance delivery, transformation and inspirational leadership

Main duties of the job

• Hold operational responsibility for service delivery across your Directorate.
• Lead performance, workforce, financial and quality improvement programmes.
• Drive transformation, service redesign, and modernisation.
• Shape waiting list recovery, patient flow, efficiency, and workforce planning.
• Develop business cases, lead complex change projects, and support long-term strategic planning.
• Inspire a culture of openness, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Build strong relationships with clinicians, system partners, and internal stakeholders.
• Ensure high‑quality clinical outcomes and patient experience through collaborative leadership.

About us

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Job responsibilities

Supporting the Care Group Leadership Team and the Director of Operations, the post holder will have operational responsibility for the Directorate in the Care Group to ensure that all operational performance targets including waiting lists, finance, workforce and service improvement targets are achieved. The post holder will actively contribute to service integration and to the development of services in their Care Group, and where appropriate the wider Nottingham health and social care system.

Supporting the Care Group Director of Operations, the post holder is responsible for the operational day to day planning, monitoring and delivery of all patient services within the Directorate.

The post holder will be responsible for leading on, and delivering success across, several key programmes within the Directorate. These programmes will be essential in ensuring that the Care Group can deliver its primary objectives and targets over the years and will encompass a range of topics including productivity and efficiency, transformation, clinical effectiveness, quality and workforce succession planning.

Training & Qualifications

• Previous successful management experience at a senior level with applicable specialist knowledge

Experience

• Experience of leading and managing substantial service change and redesign in a complex environment
• Experience in managing large budgets for multiple departments and or services of major area of activity; responsible for overall budget setting for major area of activity

Communication & Relationship Skills

• Providing and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive, or highly contentious information where there are significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome
• Highly developed leader with strong interpersonal and communication skills

Analytical & Judgement Skills

• Proven track record of managing operating budgets and delivering financial balance

Planning & Organisation Skills

• Proven track record of developing successful business plans and strategy for planning activity
• Confident in presenting complex information to wide and varied audience both internal and external to the organisation

Commitment to Trust Values & Behavious

• Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's "We are here for you" behavioural standards

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.

Address

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust