Job summary
- Main area
- Renal
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-MIC-1492
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £70,387 - £80,465 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/01/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 16/01/2025
Employer heading
Deputy General Manager
Band 8b
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
We have two exciting opportunities for experienced operational managers to join either the Renal directorate or the Charing Cross Acute Medicine & Specialist Medicine directorate at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
The Deputy General Manager will provide senior leadership across the all services in the directorate, and will be a key member of the directorate management team, working operationally and strategically with the clinical director, lead nurses and general manager to ensure the delivery of key performance indicators and the financial plan for the directorate. The role may also include operational accountability for a discrete section of the directorate and line management support to the business managers.
We are looking for candidiates who can demonstrate excellent interpersonal and leadership skills across a broad service portfolio, which inspire, motivate and influence colleagues at all levels. You will champion a patient-centred approach, ensuring services are well positioned to place patient choice, safety, and staff wellbeing at the fore front of developments. You will work within supportive directorates and divisional leadership teams as a key member.
The roles are high profile roles and include a responsibility for deputising for the general manager. Both roles are ideal for an existing deputy general manager looking to broaden their NHS experience, or an highly experienced business manager aiming to make the next step in their career progression.
Main duties of the job
- Be accountable to the General Manager for the operational performance of the directorates services
- Lead the directorate’s business management team.
- Be accountable for delivery of financial targets for the directorate’s services
- Deputise for the General Manager
Working for our organisation
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. .
Detailed job description and main 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
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant first degree, equivalent professional qualification or suitable experience
- Relevant post graduate courses or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Senior management experience and demonstrable capability and capacity in a complex healthcare environment
- Demonstrable success in project management
- Experience of service redesign and development
- Experience of business planning within the context of the NHS
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to think strategically and laterally
- High level of work organisation, selfmotivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude
- Understanding of equal opportunity issues and how they translate in practice
- Excellent IT and financial skills including the ability to create and handle large document using word processing skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joshua March
- Job title
- Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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