# Interim Divisional Manager (covering maternity leave)

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Barts Health NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Barts Health NHS Trust
- **Town:** London
- **Region:** London
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Manager and corporate
- **Grade:** Band 9
- **Salary:** £121,528 - £138,529 per annum inc. pro rata
- **Contract type:** 13 months (Fixed term/secondment - maternity cover)
- **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-07T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-06-23T15:52:09.688Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8106017
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8106017?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Interim Divisional Manager (covering maternity leave) - Band 9

We are looking for a motivated and experienced leader who can bring energy and focus to the Bart's Heart Centre.  The post will be for 12 months for a fixed term maternity leave cover starting from mid October 2026.

The successful candidate will form part of the senior leadership team, alongside the Divisional Director and Associate Directors’ of Nursing, responsible for ensuring the safe, high quality and efficient delivery of services across:

- Electrophysiology and Intervention
- Specialised Cardiology
- Respiratory Medicine (inc RLH and MEH)
- Networked Cardiology (inc RLH, WXH and NUH)
- Cardiac & Thoracic Surgery
- Peri-operative Medicine
- Theatres
- Cath Labs
- North of London Cardiology Operational Delivery Network

The DM will provide strategic leadership for services (as identified) in the Heart Centre, ensuring that there are appropriate systems and processes within the Centre to enable staff to deliver good quality clinical care and drive forward the service improvement agenda to achieve efficiency gains and improve the operational effectiveness of the Centre.

### Main duties of the job

Specifically the Divisional Manager for the Bart’s Heart Centre will:

- Take day to day responsibility and accountability for the operational running of the Heart Centre, including NHS Recovery, key operational targets, Governance, People and Finance etc.
- Achieve both NHS and any identified Private Targets.
- With the Director of the Heart Centre and Associate Directors’ of Nursing lead and performance manage the Directorate Teams
- Lead the Centre to ensure national and local targets are achieved and that they meet the needs of the local community and the wider NHS and fulfil commissioner agreements.
- Develop and implement plans to deliver the relevant Trust objectives as required.
- Monitor and manage performance to ensure that patient-centred services are of a consistently high standard.
- Provide leadership and management to both direct and indirect reports.
- Establish strong links with the wider health and social care community by securing their involvement in the effective delivery of services e.g. ICS, Cardiology Operational Delivery Network

For further information please contact:

Karen Bates, Director of Operations \[email protected\]. Simon Woldman, Divisional Director \[email protected\]

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s.

## Job Details

Interim Divisional Manager (covering maternity leave) - Band 9

We are looking for a motivated and experienced leader who can bring energy and focus to the Bart's Heart Centre. The post will be for 12 months for a fixed term maternity leave cover starting from mid October 2026.

The successful candidate will form part of the senior leadership team, alongside the Divisional Director and Associate Directors’ of Nursing, responsible for ensuring the safe, high quality and efficient delivery of services across:

Electrophysiology and Intervention
- Specialised Cardiology
- Respiratory Medicine (inc RLH and MEH)
- Networked Cardiology (inc RLH, WXH and NUH)
- Cardiac & Thoracic Surgery
- Peri-operative Medicine
- Theatres
- Cath Labs
- North of London Cardiology Operational Delivery Network

The DM will provide strategic leadership for services (as identified) in the Heart Centre, ensuring that there are appropriate systems and processes within the Centre to enable staff to deliver good quality clinical care and drive forward the service improvement agenda to achieve efficiency gains and improve the operational effectiveness of the Centre.

## Job Description

Specifically the Divisional Manager for the Bart’s Heart Centre will:

Take day to day responsibility and accountability for the operational running of the Heart Centre, including NHS Recovery, key operational targets, Governance, People and Finance etc.
- Achieve both NHS and any identified Private Targets.
- With the Director of the Heart Centre and Associate Directors’ of Nursing lead and performance manage the Directorate Teams
- Lead the Centre to ensure national and local targets are achieved and that they meet the needs of the local community and the wider NHS and fulfil commissioner agreements.
- Develop and implement plans to deliver the relevant Trust objectives as required.
- Monitor and manage performance to ensure that patient-centred services are of a consistently high standard.
- Provide leadership and management to both direct and indirect reports.
- Establish strong links with the wider health and social care community by securing their involvement in the effective delivery of services e.g. ICS, Cardiology Operational Delivery Network

For further information please contact:

Karen Bates, Director of Operations \[email protected\]. Simon Woldman, Divisional Director \[email protected\]

## Responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s.

## Documents

- [our values and behaviours (pdf, 334.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1119)
- [candidate information pack (pdf, 549.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2446)
- [policy statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 92.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1120)

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