General Manager - Medicine (ED, Acute Medicine, Stroke)

Job summary

The Medicine Division is seeking to appoint an ambitious and enthusiastic candidate to be the General Manager across both sites for our Emergency Departments, Acute Medicine, and Stroke service.

We want someone who loves building relationships and working together with colleagues to make life better for our staff and patients. The role requires passion for understanding our pathways and curiosity to find ways to improve our services.

It is a high profile post within our trust and contributes regularly at local system level, so is an excellent way to gain experience for aspiring divisional directors/managers.

Main duties of the job

Supporting the safe delivery of care along urgent and emergency care flow at our hospitals

Working with medical and nursing teams, divisional management team, and other stakeholders to ensure effective patient pathways

Oversight of performance and finance for the departments

Line management of all admin staff within the services via service managers

Representation for the trust at local system meetings and on sector improvement programmes

Support the implementation of IT system changes and delivery of our plans to develop a Specialist Emergency Care Hospital

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.