General Manager - Dental Hospital, Adult Ophthalmology and OMFS | Barts Health NHS Trust

Barts Health NHS Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a General Manager for the Dental Hospital, Adult Ophthalmology and OMFS. This role includes managing operations across multiple sites, driving innovation and patient satisfaction, and achieving performance targets. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in healthcare management and a strong collaborative mindset. The position is on a one-year fixed-term basis.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing healthcare services across multiple sites.
• Strong understanding of NHS operations and performance targets.
• Ability to drive staff and patient satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Manage operational delivery of Dental, Ophthalmology, and OMFS services.
• Oversee Cost Improvement Program initiatives.
• Ensure development of staff and services through collaboration.

Skills

Operational management

Leadership skills

Strategy implementation

Collaboration with clinical staff

Innovation and modernization

Job description

Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join us as the General Manager for the Dental Hospital, Adult Ophthalmology and OMFS on a one year fixed term basis.

The successful candidate will manage services and teams across the Royal London and Whipps Cross Hospitals, together with a range of off site dental services. The appointee will work in close collaboration with QMUL, our university partner.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for operational management of the Dental, Ophthalmology and OMFS Directorate Services across Barts Health and outreach services.
• Co-ordinate the operational delivery of all responsible services and ensure the safe and effective use of all resources. Specifically to take a lead in achieving key performance targets in line with local and national agreements.
• In partnership with the Clinical Director and Senior Nurses, take operational management responsibility - with the specialty Lead Clinicians, Operational Managers and Heads of Department within the Service Groups - for the delivery of Cost Improvement Program.
• Provide senior leadership and overall general management for Barts Health NHS Trust, working in close collaboration with the Divisional Directors and Directors. To work with the Clinical Directors and Heads of Department to ensure the development of staff and services, in conjunction with a wide range of partner organisations.
• Support the clinical and managerial leadership, delivering a range of outcomes, ensuring that fundamental and underlying activities to organisational success are achieved.
• Drive innovation, modernization and high levels of staff and patient satisfaction for the Service Group.
• Act as an ambassador for the Trust and as a Senior Manager of the Trust working in an ethnically goals.

About Barts Health

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers. The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world‑class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

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.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

This advert closes on Wednesday 29 Oct 2025