Rheumatology, Diabetes and Endocrinology Assistant Service Manager

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a hardworking, forward thinking, proactive and motivated individual to join the Diabetes, Endocrinology and Rheumatology Departments as an Assistant Service Manager. You must have the ability to work independently, using own initiative, and equally work well within a team environment.

Main duties of the job

To provide day to day operational management support to the Service Manager with the aim of ensuring that from a non-clinical perspective the speciality is running effectively and efficiently. The post holder will be part of a wider management team within the Specialist Medicine directorate.

About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.