Job summary
If you are looking for the next step in your general management career and are an aspiring Divisional General Manager this post could be the perfect role for you.
The roles works closely with the Divisional General Manager and offers the unique potential to both deputise across a varied operational agenda and the opportunity to lead on programs of work focusing on service transformation and strategic priorities.
The Cancer and Associated Specialties (CAS) division has a diverse range of services within 3 directorates.
The medical directorate has a group of specialised medical services located at the City Hospital campus including haematology, oncology, renal and transplant, infectious disease and palliative care.
The surgical directorate contains specialised surgical services based at City with a focus on cancer services and includes urology, breast services, plastic surgery, thoracic surgery and sarcoma.
The Pathology directorate contains blood sciences, microbiology, cellular pathology and genomics - services are provided across both campuses.
The division has around 2500 staff with an operating income of around £300 million. Approximately half of the income is from specialised commissioning.
The division has 15 wards across the City campus.
Main duties of the job
The Deputy General Manager will have operational and strategic responsibilities within the Division under the direction of the Divisional General Manager, working across the varying teams with a focus on driving improvement related to operational and financial performance as well as quality and safety.
Working very closely with the Divisional General Manager, the Deputy will lead on key operational and strategic aspects of the Division allowing both close working with individual Directorates and specialties where needed, and also the opportunity to lead work which is cross cutting across multiple divisional areas.
You will play a key part working with the Divisional Leadership Team to ensure you have adequate oversight of the entire Division while allowing in-depth focus and leadership in key areas.
The role will support an individual looking to develop their knowledge and experience allowing some flexibility in portfolio in agreement with the Divisional General Manager.
About us
Our values are crucial to the developing strength of our culture, and we will be looking for someone who demonstrates a similar depth of value-set.
You should have values aligned to providing the highest quality and caring service to both our patients and staff.
You will be a part of our culture of inclusivity where everyone feels valued, and our teams are empowered to deliver the best possible patient care.
We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all and appointments made on merit.
We particularly welcome applications from women, people from local black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, and people with disabilities and/or long-term health conditions.
Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) was established in 2006 and we are one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country and provide services to over 2.5 million residents of Nottingham.
NUH are, by any measure, a large, complex, person-centred organisation. With over 17,000 employees from a wide range of professional backgrounds, they are one of the region's largest employers.
NUH has an excellent national and international reputation for the quality of their patient care and for their research, education and innovation.
They have strong links to the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University and Loughborough University. This allows for the provision of excellent training and education for their students, as well as being a major research organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please also see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification for key duties and responsibilities.
Supporting the Divisional General Manager, working with the Divisional Leadership Team [DLT], the post-holder will have operational responsibility for services within the Division to ensure all key operational performance targets including: access; finance; workforce; and service improvements are achieved. This involves delivery of all operational performance targets, ensuring all services are provided within the agreed level of activity, standards of performance, safety, quality and budget.
The post-holder will contribute to the Divisional strategic plan
The post-holder will act as a Deputy for the Divisional General Manager in their absence, attending meetings to represent the CAS Division and will report directly to the Divisional General Manager.
Supporting the Divisional General Manager, the post holder is responsible for the operational day to day planning, monitoring and delivery of all patient services within the Division.
Working as part of the DLT, the post holder will be responsible for the development of the Division and will be expected to make a positive contribution to the delivery of health services across the Trust.
The post-holder will be responsible for leading on and delivering success across a number of key programmes within the Division. These programmes will be essential in ensuring that the Division can deliver its primary objectives and targets over the years and will encompass a range of topics including productivity and efficiency, transformation, clinical effectiveness, quality and workforce succession planning.
Support the clinical and managerial leadership of the Trust, delivering a range of outcomes, ensuring that fundamental and underlying activities to organisational success are achieved.
To lead with other members of the DLT and other divisional and corporate management teams to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of services to clinical users and patients.
CAS Division includes 3 directorates and 13 speciality areas.
The medical directorate has a group of specialised medical services located at the City Hospital campus including haematology, oncology, renal and transplant, infectious disease and palliative care.
The surgical directorate contains specialised surgical services based at City with a focus on cancer services and includes urology, breast services, plastic surgery, thoracic surgery and sarcoma.
The Pathology directorate contains blood sciences, microbiology, cellular pathology and genomics services are provided across both campuses.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please also see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification for key duties and responsibilities.
Supporting the Divisional General Manager, working with the Divisional Leadership Team [DLT], the post-holder will have operational responsibility for services within the Division to ensure all key operational performance targets including: access; finance; workforce; and service improvements are achieved. This involves delivery of all operational performance targets, ensuring all services are provided within the agreed level of activity, standards of performance, safety, quality and budget.
The post-holder will contribute to the Divisional strategic plan
The post-holder will act as a Deputy for the Divisional General Manager in their absence, attending meetings to represent the CAS Division and will report directly to the Divisional General Manager.
Supporting the Divisional General Manager, the post holder is responsible for the operational day to day planning, monitoring and delivery of all patient services within the Division.
Working as part of the DLT, the post holder will be responsible for the development of the Division and will be expected to make a positive contribution to the delivery of health services across the Trust.
The post-holder will be responsible for leading on and delivering success across a number of key programmes within the Division. These programmes will be essential in ensuring that the Division can deliver its primary objectives and targets over the years and will encompass a range of topics including productivity and efficiency, transformation, clinical effectiveness, quality and workforce succession planning.
Support the clinical and managerial leadership of the Trust, delivering a range of outcomes, ensuring that fundamental and underlying activities to organisational success are achieved.
To lead with other members of the DLT and other divisional and corporate management teams to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of services to clinical users and patients.
CAS Division includes 3 directorates and 13 speciality areas.
The medical directorate has a group of specialised medical services located at the City Hospital campus including haematology, oncology, renal and transplant, infectious disease and palliative care.
The surgical directorate contains specialised surgical services based at City with a focus on cancer services and includes urology, breast services, plastic surgery, thoracic surgery and sarcoma.
The Pathology directorate contains blood sciences, microbiology, cellular pathology and genomics services are provided across both campuses.
Person Specification
Education/ Training/ Qualifications
Essential
- 1.Master's degree in Healthcare or management or demonstrate ability to work at Masters level.
- 2.Post Graduate Diploma and/or equivalent senior management experience. 3.Evidence of maintaining continuous professional development
Desirable
- Project management experience Prince 2
Communication/ Relationship Skills
Essential
- 1.Proven leadership skills, development of team 2.Ability to draft clear and concise business cases and papers 3.Forward thinking and be able to lead and transform culture, including shaping and implementing a vision for future service development 4.Ability to analyse and interpret situation as well as information 5.Full range of IT skills including spreadsheet analysis 6.Proven leadership skills, development of team 7.Ability to draft clear and concise business cases and papers 8.Forward thinking and be able to lead and transform culture, including shaping and implementing a vision for future service development 9.Ability to analyse and interpret situation as well as information 10.Full range of IT skills including spreadsheet analysis
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
- 1.Significant management experience in a senior role within the acute sector in particular operational management 2.Experience of managing strategic and operational performance in achieving key targets 3.Proven record of financial management at senior level, delivering on complex and large budgets including reducing costs, monitoring and determining corrective action 4.Successful delivery of cost improvement programmes 5.Proven track record of meeting national targets 6.Knowledge and understanding of the modernisation agenda and the opportunities for redesigning services 7.Knowledge and experience of collaborating with external organisations, both NHS and non-NHS providers whilst being politically aware of hidden agenda and adapting negotiating style to meet the needs
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential
- 1.Proven success at managing highly complex organisational change while maintaining service quality with demonstrable impact on improving healthcare 2.Significant experience of staff management, including the setting of objectives, team and individual appraisal, recruitment and disciplinary issues 3.Evidence of report writing and presentation skills, to include business cases and formal presentations 4.Proven experience of developing and implementing strategic plans
Personal Qualities
Essential
- 1.Commitment to self-development with ability to demonstrate in depth knowledge of key policies and themes in the healthcare provision in the UK 2.An ability and interest in coaching staff to improve performance 3.Commitment to promote equality and diversity in the workplace and in service delivery and development 4.Ability to work in an unpredictable environment, achieve demanding tasks and objectives against deadlines, prioritise own/Division workload
Physical Skills
Essential
- 1.Ability to use office equipment with or without adaptions 2.Ability to concentrate for long periods of time i.e. when chairing meetings/writing reports/analysis data etc.
Other requirements
Essential
- 1.Ability to travel between NUH sites and other locations
Person Specification
Education/ Training/ Qualifications
Essential
- 1.Master's degree in Healthcare or management or demonstrate ability to work at Masters level.
- 2.Post Graduate Diploma and/or equivalent senior management experience. 3.Evidence of maintaining continuous professional development
Desirable
- Project management experience Prince 2
Communication/ Relationship Skills
Essential
- 1.Proven leadership skills, development of team 2.Ability to draft clear and concise business cases and papers 3.Forward thinking and be able to lead and transform culture, including shaping and implementing a vision for future service development 4.Ability to analyse and interpret situation as well as information 5.Full range of IT skills including spreadsheet analysis 6.Proven leadership skills, development of team 7.Ability to draft clear and concise business cases and papers 8.Forward thinking and be able to lead and transform culture, including shaping and implementing a vision for future service development 9.Ability to analyse and interpret situation as well as information 10.Full range of IT skills including spreadsheet analysis
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
- 1.Significant management experience in a senior role within the acute sector in particular operational management 2.Experience of managing strategic and operational performance in achieving key targets 3.Proven record of financial management at senior level, delivering on complex and large budgets including reducing costs, monitoring and determining corrective action 4.Successful delivery of cost improvement programmes 5.Proven track record of meeting national targets 6.Knowledge and understanding of the modernisation agenda and the opportunities for redesigning services 7.Knowledge and experience of collaborating with external organisations, both NHS and non-NHS providers whilst being politically aware of hidden agenda and adapting negotiating style to meet the needs
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential
- 1.Proven success at managing highly complex organisational change while maintaining service quality with demonstrable impact on improving healthcare 2.Significant experience of staff management, including the setting of objectives, team and individual appraisal, recruitment and disciplinary issues 3.Evidence of report writing and presentation skills, to include business cases and formal presentations 4.Proven experience of developing and implementing strategic plans
Personal Qualities
Essential
- 1.Commitment to self-development with ability to demonstrate in depth knowledge of key policies and themes in the healthcare provision in the UK 2.An ability and interest in coaching staff to improve performance 3.Commitment to promote equality and diversity in the workplace and in service delivery and development 4.Ability to work in an unpredictable environment, achieve demanding tasks and objectives against deadlines, prioritise own/Division workload
Physical Skills
Essential
- 1.Ability to use office equipment with or without adaptions 2.Ability to concentrate for long periods of time i.e. when chairing meetings/writing reports/analysis data etc.
Other requirements
Essential
- 1.Ability to travel between NUH sites and other locations
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).