Childrens Hospital Surgical Directorate General Manager

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in the UK is seeking an operational lead for the Surgical Directorate at its Children's hospital. The successful candidate will oversee service delivery, lead performance and quality improvement efforts, and drive transformation initiatives. This role involves building strong relationships with clinicians and stakeholders to ensure high-quality clinical outcomes. The organization promotes diversity and offers extensive personal development opportunities, striving to turn your job into a rewarding career.

Benefits

Endless personal development opportunities

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Proven experience in operational service delivery within a healthcare setting.
• Strong background in performance and quality improvement initiatives.
• Ability to inspire and lead change across diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Hold operational responsibility for service delivery across your Directorate.
• Lead performance, workforce, financial and quality improvement programmes.
• Drive transformation, service redesign, and modernisation.
• Develop business cases and lead complex change projects.

Skills

Operational leadership

Performance management

Transformation and change management

Stakeholder engagement

Financial delivery

Job description

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

Responsibilities

• 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.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Philip Walmsley Job title: Director of Operations Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07540 579857