Divisional Manager

Barts Health Nhs Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Barts Health NHS Trust in London is seeking an experienced Divisional Manager to lead a diverse portfolio including Imaging, Pharmacy, Therapies and Outpatients, ensuring safe, effective and patient-centred services.

Reporting to the Divisional Director, you will partner with clinical leaders and service leads to drive operational performance, service improvement and financial sustainability while fostering multidisciplinary collaboration across the division.

Job description

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced and motivated leader to join a high-performing service within a welcoming and supportive hospital environment. The Divisional Manager will have responsibility for a diverse portfolio of services including Imaging, Pharmacy, Therapies and Outpatients, working closely with clinical, professional and operational leaders to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and patient-centred services.

The postholder will be a key member of the divisional leadership team, working in partnership with senior clinicians and service leads to drive operational performance, service improvement, workforce development and financial sustainability. They will collaborate with a broad range of professional groups, including radiologists, radiographers, therapists, dietitians, nurses, pharmacists, technicians and operational colleagues, fostering strong multidisciplinary relationships across the division and hospital.

Reporting to the Divisional Director, the successful candidate will work closely with the Divisional Leadership Team (DLT), providing strategic and operational leadership across the portfolio. The role will involve working with SLT and representing the division at Trust-wide and Board-level meetings, presenting performance updates, leading improvement initiatives and ensuring the division contributes to the wider strategic objectives of the organisation.

The successful candidate will join the organisation at an exciting time, with significant opportunities to contribute to service transformation and modernisation. Key priorities over the coming years include the redesign of clinical pathways, improving access to services, strengthening community-based care, embracing innovation and becoming increasingly digitally enabled. This role offers the opportunity to influence these developments and play a key part in shaping future service delivery across not only Core Services, but the Medicine, Women's & Children's and the Surgery division. The role will be instrumental in shaping and encouraging our service management and administrative teams that underpin this too.

Whilst the role is demanding and fast-paced, it provides a unique opportunity to work within a hospital recognised for its collaborative culture, strong team ethos and commitment to continuous improvement, where colleagues work together with a shared focus on delivering the best possible outcomes for patients., The role of the Divisional Manager (DM) is to provide strong local leadership to the Division and to balance strategic plans with operational needs and robust delivery.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.