General Manager Medical Directors Office

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Greater London seeks an ambitious General Manager for the Medical Director's Office. The successful candidate will provide operational and strategic leadership across a complex division, enhancing patient care and supporting high-impact programs. Key qualifications include significant senior management experience in healthcare, excellent strategic planning, and strong communication skills. This role offers an opportunity to influence the future of patient care and clinical workforce development with flexible working options.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing programs

Staff recognition scheme

Qualifications

• Significant experience within the Healthcare sector at General Manager level or equivalent.
• Demonstrable success in delivering large scale change and performance.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive operational performance of the corporate Division.
• Implement corporate objectives in collaboration with the Chief of Staff.
• Ensure corporate governance arrangements meet Trust requirements.

Skills

Leadership and influencing skills

Strategic planning

Financial analysis

Excellent communication skills

Education

First degree or equivalent

Evidence of other specialist knowledge at higher degree or master's level

Job description

General Manager Medical Directors Office

We're looking for an ambitious and influential General Manager to join the Office of the Medical Director and help shape high quality patient care and corporate performance across one of the UK's leading academic health science centres.

In this senior role, you'll provide operational and strategic leadership across a large, complex division, driving performance, governance, financial delivery and service improvement. You'll work closely with Medical Directors, divisional teams and system partners to support Trust wide priorities and lead high impact programmes across the Acute Provider Collaborative.

With a portfolio that includes oversight of medical education, you will help ensure our training environments remain excellent and future focused -- though prior experience in education is beneficial, it's not essential.

We're looking for someone who:

• Brings significant senior management experience in healthcare
• Excels in strategic planning, financial management and complex performance delivery
• Can build strong relationships and influence at executive and system level
• Leads with integrity, collaboration and a commitment to improvement
• Join us and play a pivotal role in shaping outstanding care, innovation and the future clinical workforce at Imperial.

Main duties of the job

• Drive the operational performance of a large, complex corporate Division. Supporting the delivery of high quality patient care, clinical governance, patient safety, clinical quality, and delivery of financial targets.
• Have joint responsibility with other General Managers in the division and wider members of the Divisional management team for driving forward divisional wide programmes of work and service direction.
• Have responsibility for driving forward directorate and trust wide programmes of work in portfolio areas.
• Work closely with the Chief of Staff and Medical Directors to shape and implement the corporate objectives for the Trust, making these part of annual objectives and business plans to ensure delivery.
• Ensure that the necessary corporate governance arrangements are in place across the Division in line with requirements of a Trust and assure that the arrangements in clinical divisions meet these requirements for portfolio areas.
• Have an external focus to facilitate greater working across the Healthcare Community e.g. with ICBs, local authorities and Imperial College, representing the Trust at a senior level within the NHS, North West London and community and with partner organisations. This will be most obvious in the work across the Acute Provider Collaborative where the post holder will be responsible for project management of an agreed improvement priority that they will deliver across the collaborative.

About us

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Job responsibilities

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 overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person Specification

• First degree or equivalent
• Evidence of other specialist knowledge at higher degree or masters level
• Extensive knowledge of the NHS in the acute sector with up-to-date knowledge of patient services
• Evidence of CPD

Experience

• Significant experience within the Healthcare sector at General Manager level or equivalent manager including responsibility for strategic planning and budgetary control for a group of complex medical/surgical specialities
• Demonstrable success in delivering large scale change and performance with and through management and clinical teams
• Track record of financial delivery
• Experience of writing complex business cases and policies
• Experience of managing and deciding on complex employment issues
• Well-developed IT skills to manage and report on complex performance management information
• Excellent communications skills, written and oral
• Cross-site operational/clinical working

Skills/knowledge/ abilities

• Highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve staff to meet challenging targets including individuals and teams in partnership organisations
• Able to develop effective networks and to work in partnership with others to deliver and improve services
• Ability to manage and deliver services within resources
• Ability to critically analyse complex financial and clinical data sets
• Manage people, by providing direction, reviewing performance, and motivating others
• Able to facilitate transformation and change to improve 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.