Divisional Director of Surgery

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust; Walsall; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is looking for a Divisional Director for the Division of Surgery. This role involves spearheading clinical best practices and transforming the way urgent, emergency, and elective care are provided. The successful candidate will possess a robust medical background and exemplary leadership skills, ensuring the delivery of exceptional patient care in a challenging healthcare environment. If you are a driven leader ready to make impactful changes, we encourage you to apply.

Qualifications

• Medical Qualification and Royal College Membership required.
• Senior professional with experience in leadership and management.
• Experienced clinician with understanding of clinical standards.

Responsibilities

• Drive the Trust's development as a clinically led organisation.
• Provide leadership to medical and operational staff.
• Develop and implement clinical strategies to improve quality.

Skills

Leadership

Interpersonal Skills

Communication

Analytical Skills

Negotiation Skills

Education

Medical Qualification and Royal College Membership

General management qualification

Job description

We are advertising for a Divisional Director for the Division of Surgery here at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust.

Rated as Good for Surgical Services by the CQC, the Division provides both emergency and elective surgical services, alongside provision of anaesthetic and intensive care services. The Division takes Trust-wide Responsibility for the performance of Elective Services and Cancer Services. The Trust is currently providing the best waiting times (RTT) for any Trust in the Midlands and is consistently within the best performance quartile nationally for timeliness of Cancer Care.

The Division is looking for a driven leader prepared to drive forward clinical best practice alongside transformation of how the Trust provides urgent, emergency, and elective care.

This post is a 5 Programmed Activity role, with the remainder to be made up with Direct Clinical Care.

Stakeholder session and interviews will take place on 19th August 2025.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for developing the Division to drive the Trust's development as a clinically led organisation, creating a sustainable healthcare system in Walsall.

o To work closely with both the Chief Medical Officer & Chief Operating Officer to develop the Trust's medical provision & and operational clinical services.

o To contribute fully to the development of strategy & and policy, delivery of statutory and corporate responsibilities including leading financial & performance management, working in close co-operation with members of the Board in defining the Trust's strategy & business plan, determining the acquisition & deployment of resources to achieve these objectives.

o Provide exceptional leadership to both medical & operational staff within the Division - leading in a professional, respectful, collaborative & compassionate way, in line with the Trust's values.

o Medical lead for the Trust's Service Improvement Programme in respect of the Division and act as champion for patient safety, clinical effectiveness, and quality.

o Work in partnership with colleagues across the Trust to drive the achievement of the Trust's corporate goals, business plan, achieving all Divisional performance standards incorporating quality, safety, contractual, people and financial.

o Act as an ambassador for the Trust, ensuring the positive development of the Trust brand, championing the Trust's values and ensuring the recognition of the Trust in providing exceptional healthcare for patients

About us

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 284,300, providing inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and the continued upgrading of existing areas ensures the Trust now has a state-of-the-art Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit facilities.

A new Urgent Emergency Care Centre was opened in March 2023. The two-storey development has significantly improved emergency care facilities and capacity and has provided almost 5,000 square metres of additional clinical space.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For details job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification attached.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Medical Qualification and Royal College Membership
• GMC Registration

Desirable

• General management qualification

Experience

Essential

• Senior professional with experience of high level leadership and management
• Developing and implementing clinically related strategies to improve quality and efficiency of systems
• Successful track record delivering high quality services in a multi-disciplinary healthcare environment
• Evidence of management of poor performance
• Leading change in challenging environments

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience of quality and safety, mortality and clinical outcome improvement agendas
• Budgetary management experience

Skills

Essential

• Experienced practising clinician with an in depth understanding of clinical standards and governance.
• The highest level of interpersonal, communication and leadership skills
• Able to lead and motivate others, strong influencing and negotiation skills
• Ability to analyse highly complex organisational problems and develop and implement workable solutions
• Ability to relate to a wide spectrum of NHS professionals with competing agendas and achieve focused solutions to problems
• Able to assess priorities and make decision, quick to grasp a point, influence, persuade, give leadership and direction
• Knowledge and understanding of key NHS issues, including national and local policy drivers that are complex and highly politicised
• Expert knowledge and understanding of legislation relating to medical practice
• Highly developed knowledge and understanding of key organisation systems and NHS modernisation agenda

Desirable

• Ability to inspire others
• Service improvement and redesign techniques

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