# Deputy General Manager Cancer Care

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Poole Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** General manager
- **Grade:** Band 8
- **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week (Full time))
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-23T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-13T08:01:18.672Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Dorset/Bournemouth/University_Hospitals_Dorset_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Cancer_Care/Cancer_Care-v8337092
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8337092?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.uhd.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

An opportunity has arisen within the WCCSS Care Group for a Deputy General Manager in the Cancer Care Directorate at University Hospitals Dorset (UHD). The specialties that this position will oversee and work with are:

- Oncology
- Haematology
- Specialist Palliative care

The post holder will be required to work across all sites within UHD. Discussion regarding the post and secondment opportunities are welcomed.

This role requires First degree or has appropriate level of senior management experience and Masters’ degree or equivalent relevant experience to the role or demonstrable equivalent working experience.

Base Location: Poole/Bournemouth

Interview Date: Wednesday 4th November, 2026

### Main duties of the job

Expectations of the role:

The purpose of this role is to lead the Directorates in ensuring the provision of high-quality patient services that are clinically safe, delivered cost effectively and meet the Trust’s values, priorities and performance targets.

The Directorate is undergoing significant transformation with their IP beds and services across all areas , the role will be directly involved with all aspects of this process and the future plans for Cancer Care at UHD.

Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excess mileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normal commute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or National terms and conditions.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The services are largely based at Poole and Bournemouth with some services at Christchurch. There is direct line management across a wide range of professional and administrative roles .

### Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Awareness and understanding of the wider NHS Agenda

**Desirable**

- Issues related to relevant Care Group

### Experience

**Essential**

- Acute NHS hospital operational experience.
- Extensive line management and problem solving experience.
- Budgetary experience and delivery of Cost Improvement Schemes

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- First degree or has appropriate level of senior management experience
- Management Qualification

**Desirable**

- Healthcare Qualification

### Personal Attributes

**Essential**

- Drives for better outcomes (identifying opportunities and taking action to improve)
- Finds new solutions (bringing new insights and thinking to the table).

**Desirable**

- Navigates organisational politics and culture, key stakeholders and personalities, to build support and engagement.

### Other requirements specific to the role

**Essential**

- Able to work flexibly to meet the demands of the service
- Able to both lead and be part of a team
- Able to work under pressure

## Documents

- [dbs - faqs (pdf, 102.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2417)
- [deputy general manager ps (pdf, 236.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10660844)
- [deputy general manager cancer care_jd (pdf, 472.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10660842)

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