Deputy Divisional General Manager
Are you an ambitious operational leader ready to make a real difference to patient care, staff experience and service transformation?
We are recruiting three exceptional Deputy Divisional General Managers to join the operational leadership teams at Sherwood Forest Hospitals, with opportunities in the following divisions:
- Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC)
- Medicine (focusing on transformation \& Improvement)
- Surgery, Anaesthetics and Critical Care (SACC)
We are looking for visible, compassionate, and resilient leaders who can inspire teams through periods of challenge and change. You will have:
Significant operational management experience within the NHS or complex healthcare environments
A track record of delivering against demanding operational and financial targets
Strong leadership and relationship\-building skills
Experience leading teams through service improvement and transformation
A passion for staff engagement and improving organisational culture
The ability to balance strategic thinking with hands\-on operational delivery
Reporting to the Divisional General Manager, you will work with the divisional leadership and wider multidisciplinary teams to shape and deliver strategic and operational priorities for Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
You will work across organisational boundaries, particularly with partners across the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire health system, to strengthen and improve clinical pathways.
Key responsibilities:
Line management of Specialty GMs
Deliver challenging operational \& access targets across elective, cancer, diagnostic \& emergency pathways, including rapid recovery plans
Lead delivery of finance/activity plans, cost improvement programmes and effective budgetary governance across the division
Work with system partners to optimise clinical pathways and ensure service level agreements are robust and cost\-effective
Lead service improvement, transformation and productivity initiatives
Enable digital enhancements across the division, in particular the implementation of an Electronic Health Records System
Improve staff engagement, wellbeing and culture in response to NHS Staff Survey results and local intelligence
Develop individuals and teams to reach their full potential
Ensure robust governance, quality and patient safety processes are embedded across services, working with cross\-divisional colleagues where needed
Build strong partnerships with clinical teams and corporate colleagues to deliver sustained service improvement, including implementation of GIRFT best practice
At Sherwood Forest Hospitals, we are proud of our culture and the progress we continue to make as an organisation. We are committed to delivering outstanding care while living our CARE values every day:
Communicating and working together
Aspiring and improving
Respectful and caring
Efficient and safe
As Deputy Divisional General Manager, you will help embed these values across your services and support teams to deliver safe, effective, responsive and compassionate care.
Join a Team That Makes a Difference
This is more than an operational leadership role — it is an opportunity to influence the future of healthcare delivery across our communities while developing your own career within a supportive and forward\-thinking organisation.
Each division has its own unique challenges and opportunities, please do get in touch to hear more.
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
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