General Manager - Specialist Medicine

Job summary

Are you currently in a senior role and looking for a new challenge? Do you have a 'Can do' attitude, excellent leadership skills and want to progress?

If you answered yes to the above then you could be making a positive difference to our patients and staff in a worthwhile, valued and rewarding role with Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust.

This position offers an exciting opportunity to work within the Medicine & Urgent Care Division at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust where you will be responsible for the management, performance and oversight of the Specialist Medicine directorate.

The post holder will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day functional management of the Specialist Medicine directorate across the Epsom and St Helier Hospital sites. The postholder is to support the Divisional Director of Operations (DDO) on both an operational and strategic basis, delivering service improvement, integration, project implementation and will be expected to have a working knowledge of all services within the Directorate, the associated performance metrics and key issues that are affecting the Directorate.

The post holder is expected to function as part of the senior management team for Medicine Division and will participate on the Trust's Senior Management on call rota as well as deputising for the DDO for Medicine.

Main duties of the job

The key focus of this post will ensure:

• Delivery of operational and quality, performance, and finance standards
• Optimisation of the patient pathway, ensuring that patients are streamed to the most appropriate pathway for their care needs
• Identification and development of new pathways of care in conjunction with clinical leads
• Development of strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders in order to further enhance the patient pathway
• Supporting both sites to ensure optimal staffing levels are reached, particularly in relation to medical staffing

About us

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surreyand NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and issupported by over 500 volunteers.