Deputy General Manager - Diagnostics Directorate

A Vacancy at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as Deputy General Manager for the Diagnostics Directorate.
The is an excellent opportunity for an experienced, motivated, and passionate operational manager to gain experience working in a busy and diverse directorate.
The Diagnostics directorate consists of Diagnostics, Breast Services, Genetics and Mortuary. The successful applicant will be one of two DGMs supporting the directorate but with a main focus on Diagnostics and the Mortuary.
We are looking for a kind, compassionate and motivated leader who can bring energy and focus to this exciting Deputy General Manager role in the Diagnostics Directorate. The post holder will have a strong background in operational management, either in an acute or community setting.
The Deputy General Manager will work closely with the General Manager, Clinical Director and Head of Nursing to support and oversee the delivery of clinical services across the directorate. This will include supporting Service Managers and Care Group Leads with day to day operational service delivery, managing risk, using data to inform decision making, and leading on a range of service improvements to improve the quality and accessibility of our services.
St. George’s Hospital is a large multi-speciality facility based in South West London, offering a wide range of adult, paediatric and neonatal services. It is co-located with a medical school - St. George’s, University of London. Children managed at SGH are either local or regional tertiary patients. Our Accident and Emergency department is seeing steadily increasing attendances, and our inpatient emergency admissions are also increasing. Outpatient referrals have also steadily increased for local children, reflecting the growing young population in SW Thames. Tertiary children’s services are offered by consultants based at SGH in gastroenterology, endocrinology, respiratory medicine, neurology, oncology, infectious diseases and PICU.
We are looking for someone who will bring excellent operational management experience and skills, with a strong interest in innovation, service improvement and development, and a commitment to collective leadership. You will be highly collaborative, systematic and rigorous in your approach, with very well developed communication skills and high levels of emotional intelligence. We would like to encourage applicants from all backgrounds.
In this post you will work alongside medical, nursing and allied health professional staff as well as the core teams of Care Group Leads, Matrons and Service Managers developing excellent services . A strong track-record of successful delivery is essential as is a passionate desire to make a difference to children, young people and their families.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
• Relevant post graduate management qualification, equivalent professional qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable
• Relevant Masters Degree
Experience
Essential
• Evidence of leading successful project and / or operational performance and improvement; including business case preparation, service initiation / commissioning, contract negotiation, and the development and monitoring of output and outcome measures
• Experience of managing large, multi-stranded budgets from a range of income sources and demonstrable evidence of individual, team, financial, process and change management.
• Extensive operational leadership experience in large complex organisations, including design, development, implementation and management of change in a multiple stakeholder environment.
Skills
Essential
• Highly effective people and project management skills.
• Use advanced analytical and judgement skills including understanding and application of complex statistical and numerical data.
• Work flexibly, prioritise workloads and resource them in response to changing demands and requirements
• Excellent interpersonal, communication (written, oral, presentation, facilitation), networking and negotiation skills with a track record in consistently delivering performance targets and writing complex business cases, policies and change
• Ability to find innovative ways of solving or pre-empting problems
This advert closes on Monday 19 Feb 2024

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