Specialty General Manager - Trauma & Orthopaedics

Job summary

The Surgery Division is advertising for a Specialty General Manager to lead the Trauma & Orthopaedics, Paediatric Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Hands services at NUH. This role is mainly based at the Queen's Medical Centre, but the post holder will potentially be expected to work across Nottingham City Hospital and the Nottingham Treatment Centre as required and both services have a regional and national profile.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast paced, forward thinking division and to make a difference to the care of our patients.

Main duties of the job

As SGM you will be responsible and accountable for the operational management and performance of all specialties above, providing strong visible leadership in partnership with the Head of Service and Nursing Leads, driving through ambitious targets to continually improve operational and financial performance. This will be a high profile role and would suit a highly experienced service manager looking to develop into an SGM post or an existing SGM wanting to gain experience in another specialty. It also provides the opportunity for someone to gain direct operational experience within this large acute trust.

About us

With over 17,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

As a member of the management team you will be expected to respond to urgent deadlines and will be confident in working on your own initiative and under pressure in an ever changing, fast-moving environment. You will have excellent problem-solving skills and an open, adaptable "can do" attitude. You will need to be resilient, confident, articulate and have a good understanding of the clinical pressures. You must be able to demonstrate experience of or the aptitude to manage and deliver challenging targets within a healthcare environment, strategic thinking and evidence of delivery of improvement to clinical services.

In addition to the brief list above you must familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification attached to this advert prior to applying.