Divisional General Manager - Clinical Support Therapies & Outpatients

NHS; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Divisional General Manager to lead the Clinical Support Therapies & Outpatients Division. The successful candidate will provide operational and strategic leadership, ensuring quality patient care and effective team integration. Candidates should have substantial experience in managing clinical divisions within an Acute Trust environment and possess a master's level qualification. The role offers a competitive salary and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Significant experience in leading clinical divisions in an Acute Trust environment.
• Extensive operational management experience at a senior level.
• Evidence of successful leadership in healthcare operations.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational and strategic leadership for patient care.
• Work with the Executive Team to enhance service integration.
• Develop and implement business cases to improve services.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Strategic thinking

Leadership skills

Commercially literate

Excellent communication

Education

Masters level qualification

Job description

Go back Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Divisional General Manager - Clinical Support Therapies & Outpatients

The closing date is 01 December 2025

Sherwood Forest Hospitals are pleased to offer a 12 month fixed term/secondment opportunity for a Divisional General Manager within our CSTO Division!

The Clinical Support, Therapies and Outpatients Division (CSTO) is one of our five clinical divisions. With teams working across all three Trust sites, the division holds a varied and complex portfolio with key services, including Clinical Illustration, Integrated Sexual Health, MEMD, Outpatients, Pathology, Pharmacy, Radiology, Spiritual and Pastoral Care, Therapy Services and Musculoskeletal (MSK).

As Divisional General Manager, you will work alongside the Divisional Clinical Chair and the Divisional Director of Nursing who together form an ambitious, forward-thinking triumvirate.

You will support the provision of safe and high-quality patient care through professional, operational and strategic leadership, creating a culture of continuous improvement within a context of financial sustainability.

You will work with the Trust Executive Team and other divisional teams to ensure optimal performance, service integration and contribute to the development of services in your division and where appropriate the wider Nottinghamshire health and social care system.

In return, we will give you a challenging yet fulfilling role, career support, and development. You will be working in a fantastic state-of-the-art building in an organisation with some of the most caring and friendly colleagues you will meet in the NHS.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge requirements

• Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of the NHS and social care system and the challenges and opportunities facing Acute Trusts
• Understanding of clinical and corporate governance requirements
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements
• Knowledge and application of engagement tools and techniques
• An understanding of the strategic issues facing Clinical Division and Trust services

Qualifications

• Masters level qualification in relevant subject area, or equivalent professional qualification/ experience
• Extensive evidence of continuous professional development

Further training

• Leadership and management training and evidence of sustained personal and professional development
• Programme or Project management

Experience

• Substantial experience of leading multi-specialty Clinical Divisions at either Divisional or Deputy Divisional General Manager (or Director of Commercial experience in a health and social care Operations) level in an Acute Trust environment
• Substantial operational management of patient services at a senior level in a large complex organisation
• In depth specialist knowledge and expertise over multiple services/functions acquired over a significant period of time
• Extensive experience of leading a wide breadth of services and multiple disciplines to deliver high quality care
• Demonstrates an ability to performance manage against key indicators/productivity metrics improving operational service delivery, quality and patient experience
• Proven track record in leadership and delivering sustainable change through effective resource and people management
• Evidence of successfully engaging and influencing clinical and/or medical managers
• Experience of working with wider stakeholders across the health and care system to transform services and improve outcomes
• Experience of developing and implementing substantial and complex business cases
• Commercial experience in a health or social care environment

Skills and personal attributes

• Strong interpersonal negotiating and personal influencing skills
• Demonstrates awareness of own personal strengths and limitations with high personal and professional standards and emotional resilience
• Demonstrates leadership skills in order to drive and motivate continuous improvement, showing political astuteness and a commitment to action in the face of challenge
• Specialist skills in strategic thinking, critical analysis and resolution techniques
• Excellent communication and report writing skills
• Commercially- and financially-literate with an understanding of marketing and how to position the Division's services against increased competition
• Able to provide and set direction, including analytical scope, usage of evidence to develop options
• Ability to lead change through people, to inspire vision and develop a common purpose
• Able to manage conflict positively whilst empowering others and supporting team working

Contractual requirements

• Must be adaptable and work flexibly to the requirements of the post
• Participation in the Trust On-call rota
• Represent the Trust as an ambassador at national, regional and local events
• Able to travel between sites
• Able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with SFH 'CARE' values and managerial 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.

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust