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Job overview
Join us in shaping the future of Medicine at NUH.
We are seeking two dynamic and ambitious leaders to join the Medicine Care Group as Directorate General Managers. These pivotal roles will provide strategic and operational leadership across large, complex clinical directorates, driving performance, service transformation, quality improvement, and outstanding patient care.
Working as part of an experienced triumvirate leadership team, you will lead multidisciplinary services, deliver against demanding operational objectives, and help shape the future of one of the largest Care Groups within NUH.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced healthcare leader with a proven track record of delivering improvement, leading through change, and inspiring teams in a complex NHS environment.
The Directorate GM roles cover:
- Emergency and Acute Care (EAC) - secondment for 12 months
- GENeRSIS - permanent role
If you are passionate about improving services for patients, developing high-performing teams, and making a meaningful impact at scale, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Supporting the Care Group Leadership Team and the Director of Operations, the post holder will have operational responsibility for the Directorate in the Care Group to ensure that all operational performance targets including waiting lists, finance, workforce and service improvement targets are achieved. The post holder will actively contribute to service integration and to the development of services in their Care Group, and where appropriate the wider Nottingham health and social care system.
Supporting the Care Group Director of Operations, the post holder is responsible for the operational day to day planning, monitoring and delivery of all patient services within the Directorate.
The post holder will be responsible for leading on, and delivering success across, a number of key programmes within the Directorate. These programmes will be essential in ensuring that the Care Group can deliver its primary objectives and targets over the years and will encompass a range of topics including productivity and efficiency, transformation, clinical effectiveness, quality and workforce succession planning.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification for key duties and responsibilities.
The Directorate GM roles cover:
- Emergency and Acute Care (EAC) - secondment for 12 months
- GENeRSIS - permanent role
Individual preferences for these roles will be discussed at interview.
The roles may be partially based at City Hospital in some cases.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- • Highly developed leadership and organisational skills
- • Experience of leading and managing substantial service change and redesign in a complex environment
- • Highly developed specialist knowledge of NHS policy, health sector practices and functions of NHS provider organisations and current targets in place and functions of NHS provider organisations and current targets in place
- • Clear understanding of NHS agenda
- • High level understanding of NHS contracting and funding flows
- • Proven track record of senior operational management in a multi-disciplinary environment
- • Extensive experience of influencing decision making within a large and complex organisation
- • Experience in analysing performance of are of activity in relation to performance targets, strategic objectives; develop strategies, business plans, advise in areas where expert opinion differs
- • Experience in managing large budgets for multiple departments and or services of major area of activity; responsible for overall budget setting for major area of activity
- • Significant senior management experience within a complex organisation
Desirable
- • Experience of management relevant to clinical directorate
Analytical and Judgement
Essential
- • Manages highly complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, comparison of a range of options to come to recommendations for decision making.
- • Analyses of performance targets, strategic objectives, business plans as part of wider operational resilience.
- • Demonstrates ability to analyse complex facts or situations in relation to performance targets, strategy, finance
- • Proven track record of managing operating budgets and delivering financial balance
- • Experience of implementing and evaluating a range of projects, / initiatives that represent solutions to changing workforce / service environments
Planning and Organisation
Essential
- • Experience of formulating ;long term strategic plans and impact on the organisation – translating business strategy into operational delivery
- • Proven track record of developing successful business plans and strategy for planning activity
- • Experience of managing complex organisational change, including working with clinical & non-clinical staff to change team structures and ways of working
- • Confident in presenting complex information to wide and varied audience both internal and external to the organisation
Training and Qualifications
Essential
- • Educated to first degree level
- • Further training to masters level or equivalent experience
- • Previous successful management experience at a senior level with applicable specialist knowledge
Communication and Relationship
Essential
- • Providing and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive, or highly contentious information where there are significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome
- • Conveys highly contentious information in situations of proposed major change. This may be potentially hostile and antagonistic
- • Influence and negotiate on delivery of services. Leads the engagement process with strategic stakeholders
- • Ability to communicate with both internal and external agencies to ensure compliance with performance targets
- • Highly developed leader with strong interpersonal and communication skills
- • Ability to inspire confidence and respect in others
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s “The way we work together” Values and Behaviours
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This advert is for Directorate General Manager - Medicine Care Group with Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust in Nottingham, Midlands, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £79,504 - £91,609 per annum. The contract type is 1X Secondment and 1X Permanent. The application deadline is 28 Jul 2026.
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