General Manager

NHS; Manchester; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Manchester seeks a dynamic General Manager for the Trauma and Orthopaedic service. Responsibilities include ensuring operational performance, managing resources, and driving improvements to patient care. The ideal candidate will have extensive healthcare management experience and strong leadership skills. This position offers a competitive salary and opportunities for personal development within a collaborative environment committed to staff wellbeing and service efficiency.

Benefits

Access to professional development

Collaborative work environment

Commitment to staff wellbeing

Qualifications

• Experience in managing healthcare services with demonstrable achievement.
• Highly specialist knowledge in NHS healthcare setting.
• Proven track record in change management and financial recovery planning.

Responsibilities

• Ensure delivery of all patient services within Orthopedic Managed Clinical Service.
• Achieve operational performance targets including finance and quality.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to enhance patient experience.

Skills

Leadership

Healthcare management

Project management

Change management

Budget management

Team management

Education

Graduate or equivalent level of experience

Managerial experience or qualification equivalent to postgraduate diploma

Master's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

General Manager

The closing date is 15 February 2026

We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic General Manager for our Trauma and Orthopaedic service who is driven by the desire to do best by our patients.

Are you looking to take your leadership career to the next level? At Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, we are embedding our exciting new Operating Model and placing the roles closest to patient care at the heart of decision-making. By creating clinically led, multidisciplinary leadership teams we can ensure decisions are informed by clinical expertise while keeping the operational expertise needed to run safe, successful services.

We are looking for experienced, forward-thinking leaders able to support the introduction of our new ways of working. You will be well supported with a bespoke personal development plan, and you will also have access to a range of development activities.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a central role in decision-making, influence the future of patient services, and be part of a Trust-wide movement to embed clinical leadership at every level.

Main duties of the job

The General Manager is responsible to the Clinical Director for the delivery of all patient services within the Orthopedic Managed Clinical Service. The General Manager role in the triumvirate involves ensuring that all operational performance targets, including waiting lists, finance, the quality of services to patients and improving services towards best practice standards within available income are achieved. The Post Holder will be a member of the triumvirate with the Lead Nurse and Clinical Lead, with direction from the Clinical Director and advice and support from the Clinical Group Directors to achieve MFT / Clinical Group objectives and will be expected to make a positive contribution to the provision of health services across the Group and the local health and social care economy.

About us

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) is the largest provider of specialist services, and our Oxford Road Campus in Manchester, the largest health academic campus in Europe - what better place to shape and develop your leadership career.

We deliver care to over 1 million patients & users each year through our 10 hospitals and extensive community services. Our 30,000 plus strong workforce is central to our success and innovation. You will play a pivotal part in supporting our operational excellence and strategic ambitions. You'll work collaboratively with clinical and non-clinical teams, driving improvements that enhance patient experience, staff wellbeing, and service efficiency across the Trust.

MFT offers a dynamic, inclusive environment where your leadership, ideas, and expertise are valued. You'll have access to professional development, digital tools and opportunities to contribute to transformational projects that shape the future of healthcare delivery. We are committed to supporting your growth and wellbeing, recognising the vital role you play in our organisation's success.

Join us and help shape the future of our Trust--make a real difference to our teams, our services, and our communities, and fundamentally, our patients.

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in your application

Here at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, were proud to be ALL HERE FOR YOU for our patients, our communities, and each other.

As part of our commitment to fairness, transparency, and personal integrity, we ask all applicants to ensure that their job applications reflect their own experiences, skills, and motivations. While AI tools can support spelling, grammar, or formatting, we expect that the content of your application especially personal statements and responses to role-specific questions is written by you. This helps us get to know the real you and ensures that our recruitment process remains equitable and meaningful for everyone.

Thank you for helping us uphold the values that make our Trust a place where people belong, grow, and thrive. We look forward to receiving your application.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, please contact the manager named below.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Graduate or equivalent level of experience.
• Managerial experience or qualification equivalent to post graduate diploma
• Master\'s degree or equivalent experience
• Experience or qualification relating to specialty

Knowledge

• Highly specialist knowledge of managing within a NHS healthcare setting
• Detailed knowledge and experience of managing performance, capacity, demand and activity
• Knowledge of managing staff within a healthcare setting and experience of managing a service
• Knowledge and experience of project/programme management

Training and Experience

• Proven experience of and demonstrable achievement in managing healthcare services
• Management of resources with a good track record with change management, budget management, efficiency savings and financial recovery plans
• Experience of project management and imaginative planning
• Experience of managing a diverse team
• Measurable track record in involving and motivating staff to improve performance
• Experience of successfully managing the implementation of change
• Experience of identifying education and training needs of staff
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Experience in setting establishments and using workforce toolkits including dependency tools
• Experience in R&D
• Experience of modernising services without additional resources
• Evidence of professional leadership, leading to innovation in practice
• Experience in clinical audit/benchmarking
• Experienced in complaints management
• Experience of developing and maintaining effective partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in the redesign of services

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.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

£64,455 to £74,896 a year per annum (pro rata)