Childrens Hospital Surgical Directorate General Manager | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

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

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Nottingham is seeking an experienced operational leader for the Surgical Directorate of the Children's hospital. The role includes managing performance across various domains, leading transformation projects, and ensuring high-quality patient care. Applicants should have experience in healthcare operations, financial management, and a collaborative mindset to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders. This position offers opportunities for personal development within a diverse and innovative work environment.

Benefits

Endless personal development opportunities

Supportive and diverse work environment

Qualifications

• Experience in operational leadership within healthcare.
• Strong background in performance and financial management.
• Proven ability to implement transformation and service redesign.

Responsibilities

• Lead operational responsibility for service delivery across the Directorate.
• Ensure targets for waiting lists, finance, and workforce are achieved.
• Drive transformation and quality improvement initiatives.

Skills

Operational leadership

Performance management

Financial oversight

Transformation and service redesign

Collaboration and stakeholder engagement

Job description

Be the operational lead for the Surgical Directorate of the Children's hospital leading on performance and finance delivery, transformation and inspirational leadership.

• 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.

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.

This advert closes on Sunday 28 Dec 2025.