# Deputy Divisional General Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-divisional-general-manager/0f819c2d-f3b1-4161-85b8-eed9f36d7c61 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-divisional-general-manager/0f819c2d-f3b1-4161-85b8-eed9f36d7c61.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Sutton In Ashfield - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £79,504 - £91,609 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-04T16:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-22T16:01:54.809Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Nottinghamshire/SuttoninAshfield/Sherwood_Forest_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Administration/Administration-v8034340 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8034340?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you an ambitious operational leader ready to make a real difference to patient care, staff experience and service transformation? We are recruiting three exceptional Deputy Divisional General Managers to join the operational leadership teams at Sherwood Forest Hospitals, with opportunities in the following divisions: - Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) - Medicine (focusing on transformation & Improvement) - Surgery, Anaesthetics and Critical Care (SACC) This is an excellent opportunity for experienced NHS leaders committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care while improving operational performance, financial sustainability and staff engagement. We are looking for visible, compassionate, and resilient leaders who can inspire teams through periods of challenge and change. You will have: - Significant operational management experience within the NHS or complex healthcare environments - A track record of delivering against demanding operational and financial targets - Strong leadership and relationship-building skills - Experience leading teams through service improvement and transformation - A passion for staff engagement and improving organisational culture - The ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on operational delivery ### Main duties of the job Reporting to the Divisional General Manager, you will work with the divisional leadership and wider multidisciplinary teams to shape and deliver strategic and operational priorities for Sherwood Forest Hospitals. You will work across organisational boundaries, particularly with partners across the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire health system, to strengthen and improve clinical pathways. Key responsibilities: - Line management of Specialty GMs - Deliver challenging operational & access targets across elective, cancer, diagnostic & emergency pathways, including rapid recovery plans - Lead delivery of finance/activity plans, cost improvement programmes and effective budgetary governance across the division - Work with system partners to optimise clinical pathways and ensure service level agreements are robust and cost-effective - Lead service improvement, transformation and productivity initiatives - Enable digital enhancements across the division, in particular the implementation of an Electronic Health Records System - Improve staff engagement, wellbeing and culture in response to NHS Staff Survey results and local intelligence - Develop individuals and teams to reach their full potential - Ensure robust governance, quality and patient safety processes are embedded across services, working with cross-divisional colleagues where needed - Build strong partnerships with clinical teams and corporate colleagues to deliver sustained service improvement, including implementation of GIRFT best practice ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification. ## Job Details Are you an ambitious operational leader ready to make a real difference to patient care, staff experience and service transformation? We are recruiting three exceptional Deputy Divisional General Managers to join the operational leadership teams at Sherwood Forest Hospitals, with opportunities in the following divisions: - Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) - Medicine (focusing on transformation & Improvement) - Surgery, Anaesthetics and Critical Care (SACC) This is an excellent opportunity for experienced NHS leaders committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care while improving operational performance, financial sustainability and staff engagement. We are looking for visible, compassionate, and resilient leaders who can inspire teams through periods of challenge and change. You will have: ## Job Description Reporting to the Divisional General Manager, you will work with the divisional leadership and wider multidisciplinary teams to shape and deliver strategic and operational priorities for Sherwood Forest Hospitals. You will work across organisational boundaries, particularly with partners across the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire health system, to strengthen and improve clinical pathways. Key responsibilities: ## Responsibilities To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge of acute hospital services and associated processes and systems, and a comprehensive understanding of the NHS environment - Understanding of clinical and corporate governance requirements - Knowledge of regulatory requirements - Knowledge and application of engagement tools and techniques - An understanding of the strategic issues facing Clinical Division and Trust services ### Experience **Essential** - Significant experience of operational management at a senior level - Proven track record in leadership and change management - Extensive experience of leading a wide breadth of services and multiple disciplines to deliver high quality care - Demonstrates an ability to performance manage against key indicators/productivity metrics improving operational service delivery, quality and patient experience - Proven budget management - Ability to source, research and collate information including statistical data - Evidence of successfully engaging and influencing clinical and/or medical managers - Experience of working with wider stakeholders across the health and care system to transform services and improve outcomes - Experience of developing and implementing business cases **Desirable** - Experience of leading on daily patient flow issues ### Qualifications **Essential** - Masters level qualification in relevant subject area, or equivalent professional qualification/ experience - Management qualification or equivalent experience - Previous experience in managing large and complex clinical service **Desirable** - Prince2 Foundation & Practitioner or equivalent project management qualification ### Further Training **Essential** - Leadership and management training and evidence of sustained personal and professional development **Desirable** - Programme or Project management ### Contractual Requirements **Essential** - Must be adaptable and work flexibly to the requirements of the post - Participation in the Trust On-call rota - Represent the Trust as an ambassador at national, regional and local events - Able to travel between sites - Able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with SFH CARE values and managerial behavioural standards ### Skills and Personal Attributes **Essential** - Strong interpersonal negotiating and influencing skills - Demonstrates awareness of own personal strengths and limitations with high personal and professional standards and emotional resilience - Demonstrates leadership skills in order to drive and motivate continuous improvement, showing political astuteness and a commitment to action in the face of challenge - Able to provide and set direction, including analytical scope, usage of evidence to develop options - Ability to lead change through people, to inspire vision and develop a common purpose - Able to manage conflict positively whilst empowering others and supporting team working - Standard keyboard skills ## Documents - [benefits leaflet (pdf, 834.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2702) - [application guide (pdf, 584.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2448) - [our staff networks (pdf, 810.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2938) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 664.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10322112) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.