Job overview
Are you an experienced operational manager looking for the opportunity to progress to the next level of leadership? The current postholder has successfully secured a secondment into a different role within the Division, creating an opportunity within the Surgery Division at Nottingham University Hospitals for a highly skilled individual with drive and determination to join our dynamic management team as Deputy Directorate General Manager. The Division consists of 21 Specialties including Neurosurgery, Major Trauma, Orthopaedics, Colorectal Surgery, ENT and Gastroenterology. The Division has an annual turnover of £330m income and employs over 2,500 staff.
Main duties of the job
The Deputy Directorate General Manager will have operational and strategic responsibilities within the Division under the direction of the Deputy Divisional General Manager, with a focus on driving improvement related to financial and efficiency performance as well as quality and safety. To support you in this task you’ll be working closely with the team of Specialty General Managers who will be working hands on in the specialties. This role will provide leadership for the Divisional analytics team and the Digital agenda.
In addition, the role will be operationally aligned to the Digestive Diseases Directorate, which is one of the three Directorates within the Division delivering elective, emergency and diagnostic activity on both QMC and City Hospital sites
Working for our organisation
The role will give the postholder exposure to all of the specialties within the Surgical Division, maintaining operational responsibility for key functions, but at the same time providing a dedicated resource to focus on key improvement initiatives which align with the Divisions strategic priorities.
You will be joining the Division at an exciting time, with new theatres for Digestive Diseases specialties due to open late in the summer and further reconfiguration plans under development
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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
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