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Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join us as the General Manager for the Dental Hospital, Adult Ophthalmology and OMFS.

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.

This role is based in the Surgery Division, which is the largest and most complex division in one of the largest and most complex Trusts in the country. This is both a challenging and very exciting place to work.  

This is a fast paced, high profile and varied role, with scope for the successful candidate to work on both strategic and operational priorities.

We are looking for someone who is motivated, kind and collaborative, to work alongside our talented group of managers, clinicians and nurses.  

Main duties of the job

The General Manager is a key management role and is responsible for the operational delivery of all aspects of the service areas. The key aims of the role are:

• Responsible for operational management of the Dental, Ophthalmology and OMFS Directorate Services across Barts Health and outreach services.
• Provide timely, efficient and effective operational service management support for specialties with the portfolio. Support the wider management structure with these shared aims.
• 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 organizations.
• Support the clinical and managerial leadership, delivering a range of outcomes, ensuring that fundamental and underlying activities to organizational success are achieved.

Working for our organisation

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.