Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£86,114 per annum

About the Role
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts, providing a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and specialist care for patients from further afield. The Trust includes five major hospitals: Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield, along with community services in Lambeth and Southwark. We are renowned for clinical excellence, high quality teaching, research, and innovation, and are part of King’s Health Partners, one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres.

The Children’s Surgery, Theatres and Anaesthesia Directorate is recruiting internally for a Deputy General Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to join a high performing and ambitious directorate, working alongside a supportive leadership team to drive service improvement, operational excellence, and outstanding patient care.

The successful candidate will lead key service developments including robotic surgery and the integration of Children’s Cancer Services from the Royal Marsden and St Georges Hospital. The role holds day-to-day operational responsibility for the wider functioning of the surgical services and delivery of RTT and surgical KPI recovery. The postholder will also transform administrative processes and support the General Manager in adapting to new structures and ways of working.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is committed to providing the best possible patient experience and safe, high quality care. We have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS and our adult community services have achieved an ‘outstanding’ rating by the Care Quality Commission. Our workforce of over 23,500 staff is highly engaged and motivated, contributing to our success.

Experience
- Evidence of leading successful projects and operational performance improvements including business case preparation, service commissioning, contract negotiation, and monitoring of output and outcome measures.
- Extensive operational leadership experience in large, complex organisations, including design, development, implementation and management of change in multi-stakeholder environments.
- Experience managing large, multi-stranded budgets from diverse income sources.
- Demonstrable skills in individual, team, financial, process and change management.

About you
- Extensive knowledge of operations and project management methodologies and contract management.
- Proven track record of successful change and project management.
- Highly effective people and project management skills.
- Advanced analytical and judgement skills, including understanding and application of complex statistical and numerical data.
- Ability to work flexibly, prioritise workloads and resource them in response to changing demands.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication (written, oral, presentation, facilitation), networking and negotiation skills.
- Strong management skills including motivating and coaching staff.
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise, meet deadlines and delegate effectively.
- Innovative problem-solving abilities.
- IT literate, competent in MS Office programmes, particularly Excel.
- Commitment to partnership working, inclusion of a diverse workforce and service integration.
- Ability to carry out the physical requirements of the post with reasonable adjustments as necessary.

Qualifications
- Relevant Masters degree, equivalent professional qualification or equivalent experience.
- Evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development is desirable.
- Highly developed knowledge and understanding of the changing NHS environment, strategy, and policy agendas is desirable.