General Manager Inpatient

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 72,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Greater London is seeking a General Manager to oversee all inpatient services. The successful candidate will provide nursing leadership and ensure integrated clinical and operational outcomes. This role requires expertise in managing change and developing clinical services, alongside collaborating with various professionals to enhance care pathways. The position offers a salary between £72,921 to £83,362 annually, with opportunities for career progression and benefits such as flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Generous pay, pensions and leave

Flexible working options

Career development programs

Car lease benefits

Keyworker housing

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Expertise at Senior Management level across a range of subjects within a mental health or social care setting.
• Proven track record of managing organisational change and development of clinical services.
• Strong record of multi-professional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Manage overall inpatient services to achieve quality and operational excellence.
• Develop integrated care pathways with evidence-based interventions.
• Write business cases and lead stakeholder consultations.

Skills

Senior management expertise

Multi-professional collaboration

Understanding of healthcare provision

Leadership in clinical settings

Education

Bachelor's Degree in relevant discipline

Master's level education in relevant discipline

Job description

Job summary

The General Manager - Inpatients role will be responsible for the overall management of all inpatient services in the operational directorate. Their aim is to ensure integrated clinical, operational, quality, and financial outcomes are achieved at a senior level across inpatient services and act as a nurse leader within the directorate and for the organisation. They will provide leadership to a number of Matrons (Inpatient) responsible for all the wards, ensuring their services deliver the highest standards of clinical care to our patients, covering all aspects of the quality agenda and all elements of operational leadership for the services in that group.

The role will provide required nursing leadership which is essential for supervision, clinical care delivery, and regulatory compliance. Inpatient services are predominantly staffed by nurses delivering 24/7 care, and nursing managers must be able to step into clinical roles, administer medication, and support Mental Health Act responsibilities.

This role also includes participating in and leading the local delivery of Trust objectives, ensuring high-quality care consistent with the CQC fundamental standards, safeguarding principles, trust values, strategy and implementation of corporate policies. The role needs to be able to manage the full inpatient provision effectively through an enabling approach to management and leadership, as well as accountability as a senior nursing leader.

Main duties of the job

Responsibilities

This will require ability to balance needs of all wards concurrently, managing a significant range of highly complex information, analysis of data and information to provide direction and decision for inpatient services, engage and motivate a large number of staff across professions to continuously improve across quality and operations with a particular focus on 24/7 nursing staff on wards.

Working closely with the Operations Directorate Deputy Director and other professionals, develop a clear integrated care pathway with effective evidence based interventions. To review the effectiveness of the pathway and use lean thinking to eliminate waste, ceasing interventions that are no longer effective and increasing those that are. Responsible for writing business cases and leading staff and stakeholder consultants as required. To demonstrate cost effectiveness and to measure outcomes against care pathways standards. Also to provide demonstrable assurance that there is a systematic engagement of service users and carers throughout the process.

About us

Benefits offered by SLAM

• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package, which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance, flexible working and supporting a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as leadership, mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes.
• Car lease, our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars.
• Accommodation, eligible staff benefit from keyworker housing which is available on selected sites.
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through Health Service Discounts website.

Details

Date posted: 18 December 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8b

Salary: £72,921 to £83,362 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 334-NCL-7680384-MU

Job locations: Ladywell Unit/ Lewisham Site

Lewisham

SE13 6LW

Job description

To ensure the services are delivered using the resources available and to identify commercial opportunities to achieve further income. Ensure that services operate within budget and taking action where necessary to manage this.

Working with the Clinical and Deputy Director to recruit, motivate and train the workforce. To be able to demonstrate that staff have the appropriate skills and training to deliver high quality care. To appoint team leaders with the appropriate competencies. To be visible and available and to manage the performance of clinical leaders to ensure excellent clinical outcomes and good levels of engagement.

To provide demonstrable assurance that the delivery of under- and post-graduate training to all professions takes place and to ensure that the environment is fit for this purpose by monitoring feedback and acting on this.

Person Specification

Educational Qualification

• Bachelor's Degree (in relevant discipline) or equivalent experience
• Masters level education (in relevant discipline) or equivalent experience

Experience

• Expertise at Senior Management level across a range of subjects within a mental health or social care setting.
• Proven track record of managing organisational change and development of clinical services
• Strong record of multi-professional collaborator

Knowledge / Skills

• Understands the principles relating to contractual arrangements/Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with commissioners
• Broad understanding of healthcare provision together with an awareness and appreciation of current NHS policy and priorities, particularly in relation to mental health.
• Able to work collaboratively with professional leads and other managers to ensure safe and effective practice

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Employer details

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Ladywell Unit/ Lewisham Site

Lewisham

SE13 6LW

Employer's website: https://www.slam.nhs.uk/