General Manager Women's Health

Job summary

The General Manager is part of the triumvirate responsible for the effective strategic and operational management of a defined set of Directorates and will work closely with the Clinical Director and Head of Nursing to ensure the delivery of high-quality patient services within the resources available. The post-holder is responsible for the management of all non- clinical staff in the Directorates, ensuring staff are managed in line with the Trust's employment policies.

The General Manager will provide leadership and direction to the services in the Directorates, taking the lead with the Clinical Directors for developing the strategy for the Directorates in line with the Trust's overall strategy and transformation programme. This will include playing a key role in identifying opportunities for clinical innovation and modernisation, the delivery of all operational performance targets, waiting list and financial management, bed utilisation and management. The General Manager is responsible through clinical teams for continually improving the quality of services to patients, and redesigning services to meet best practice standards, improving efficiency and effectiveness within available resources.

The post-holder will be a leading change agent in the Trust's transformation programme and will be responsible for securing the commitment of all staff in the Directorates to organisational change and continuous improvement.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible and accountable for the formulation of new service developments and initiatives, preparing bids and ensuring business cases are produced for services developments, taking into account activity and income projections and resource
• Work with colleagues to review and redesign services in order to meet the needs of patients and enable the Directorates to achieve key performance indicators and reduce
• Lead the planning of future capital developments for the Directorates to deliver improved facilities for patients in line with the Trust's Strategic Outline Case, ensuring that capital developments are designed around the service.
• Develop robust mechanisms to ensure clear communication of service plans, objectives and service changes within the Directorates ensuring that staff are engaged directly in any review and the development of services.

About us

The postholder is expected to have a clear understanding of how this post contributes to the achievement of the trust vision of:

A thriving Foundation Trust at the heart of an integrated healthcare system. One that delivers improved patient care at a community, hospital and specialist setting, supported by a unique and nationally recognised programme of research, education and employee engagement.

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflects these.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and expects that all staff will share in this commitment. The Trust is clear that all staff have a responsibility to be aware of children and adult safeguarding policies and procedures and that each member of staff, clinical and non-clinical, will attend child or adult safeguarding training that is provided at an appropriate level to suit their role. The Trust has the additional expectation that all staff will be able to identify concerns and know what action to take.