Job summary
Directorate General Manager - Medicine
Are you a dynamic and experienced leader looking for an exciting opportunity to make a real difference in patient care and service delivery? We are seeking a DGM for Medicine to join our leadership team at Wrexham Maelor Hospital. This pivotal role will provide strategic, operational, and performance management across a broad range of clinical and managerial services, with a particular emphasis on delivering waiting time targets and continuous improvements in patient care and experience.
As the DGM, you will be responsible for strategic, operational, and performance management, including service quality, planning, resource utilisation, and modernisation. Working to ensure the achievement of waiting time targets and other key performance measures whilst driving continuous improvements in patient access and care. In this role, you will also hold responsibility for speciality workforce, finance and performance delivery in partnership with clinical and multidisciplinary leads.
Main duties of the job
You will be a key member of the Hospital Management Team, contributing to corporate planning and performance management arrangements. A collaborative mindset will be essential, as you will work closely with primary, community, and secondary care services to ensure seamless patient pathways and efficient service delivery. Operating with a high degree of responsibility, you will identify and translate health service policy and strategy into actionable plans within the performance management framework. In addition, you will manage a dedicated team of staff, ensuring the delivery of operational, financial, performance, and activity targets
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
About us
About You
To succeed in this role, you will have extensive managerial experience in a healthcare setting, ideally within an NHS or similarly complex environment. You will possess a proven track record in strategic leadership, service improvement, and performance management, along with a strong operational knowledge across HR, finance, governance, and clinical service delivery.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential, allowing you to engage and influence at all levels, from frontline teams to Hospital Directors. You will be driven to improve patient care, enhance service standards, and foster a culture of efficiency and high-quality outcomes. Demonstrable ability to manage change and modernisation initiatives effectively is crucial, as is the commitment and vision to embed health service policy and strategy into local operations and deliver tangible outcomes.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person Specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential
- Post Graduate Degree in relevant subject
- Evidence of ongoing Professional/Managerial Development
- Managerial Qualification
- Professional / Managerial development in relevant area to masters equivalent
Desirable
- Masters in management or equivalent.
Experience
Essential
- Project management experience
- Experience of implementing innovations and managing change within clinical environments - multi site
- Substantial experience of operating effectively at a senior level within the organisation.
- Experience of clinical audit and implementation of actions
- Experience of multi professional working at a senior level / working effectively with other stakeholders
- Substantial budget management service
- Operational management experience
Desirable
- Experience in unscheduled care and scheduled care
- Site Management (minimum 8a)
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential
- The post holder will be highly skilled at communicating orally and in writing at all levels.
- Ability to think laterally, prioritise effectively, analyse and solve complex problems.
- A high level of people management/interpersonal skills is essential.
- Proficient in conflict resolution
- Skilled and experienced in successfully managing and achieving change
- Evidence of knowledge of key determinants of health and modernisation of services to achieve improvements
- Budget setting and budgetary control
Desirable
- Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of NHS issues, for example clinical governance, quality measures, Investors in People and audit
Values
Essential
- A team builder with excellent interpersonal skills.
- Should lead by example, setting a standard to which staff aspire and are motivated to achieve.
- Must demonstrate the Health Board Values
Person Specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential
- Post Graduate Degree in relevant subject
- Evidence of ongoing Professional/Managerial Development
- Managerial Qualification
- Professional / Managerial development in relevant area to masters equivalent
Desirable
- Masters in management or equivalent.
Experience
Essential
- Project management experience
- Experience of implementing innovations and managing change within clinical environments - multi site
- Substantial experience of operating effectively at a senior level within the organisation.
- Experience of clinical audit and implementation of actions
- Experience of multi professional working at a senior level / working effectively with other stakeholders
- Substantial budget management service
- Operational management experience
Desirable
- Experience in unscheduled care and scheduled care
- Site Management (minimum 8a)
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential
- The post holder will be highly skilled at communicating orally and in writing at all levels.
- Ability to think laterally, prioritise effectively, analyse and solve complex problems.
- A high level of people management/interpersonal skills is essential.
- Proficient in conflict resolution
- Skilled and experienced in successfully managing and achieving change
- Evidence of knowledge of key determinants of health and modernisation of services to achieve improvements
- Budget setting and budgetary control
Desirable
- Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of NHS issues, for example clinical governance, quality measures, Investors in People and audit
Values
Essential
- A team builder with excellent interpersonal skills.
- Should lead by example, setting a standard to which staff aspire and are motivated to achieve.
- Must demonstrate the Health Board Values
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).
