General Manager Inpatient | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in Greater London seeks a General Manager - Inpatients to oversee all inpatient services. This role involves leading nursing teams, ensuring compliance with care standards, and enhancing care quality. Successful candidates will demonstrate strong leadership and operational management skills. The position offers generous pay, flexible working options, and opportunities for career development. This is a pivotal role for someone passionate about improving healthcare delivery.

Benefits

Generous pay, pensions and leave

Flexible working options

Career development opportunities

Car lease options

Keyworker housing access

NHS discounts from retailers

Qualifications

• Experience in managing inpatient services and leading nursing teams.
• Ability to balance diverse needs and manage complex data.
• Skill in engaging and motivating teams to improve quality and operations.

Responsibilities

• Oversee management of all inpatient services and delivery of care.
• Develop integrated care pathways and ensure compliance with CQC standards.
• Recruit and train workforce, ensuring appropriate skills for quality care.

Skills

Leadership skills

Clinical care supervision

Operational management

Quality assurance

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

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 caretoour 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.

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.

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.

Benefits offered by SLAM

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

• 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.

This advert closes on Thursday 1 Jan 2026