Assistant General Manager - Specialist Medicine

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as Assistant General Manager. The role involves Operational Leadership of Endoscopy, Gastroenterology and Hepatology all within the Directorate of Specialist Medicine. The postholder will report to the General Manager and act as a vital member of the Specialist Medicine Directorate Management Team. They will have a broad portfolio of operational and performance management responsibilities and will lead on a number of Directorate wide initiatives designed to improve services for patients.,

• The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that services are efficiently and effectively run within the Directorate. This will be achieved through excellent human resource, financial and performance management, and leadership of change management to achieve improvement in process and patient outcomes.
• The post holder will also take the lead on specific service development issues. The post holder will also be operationally responsible for designated areas of the Directorate including direct management responsibility for staff and direct budgetary control.
• The post holder will be responsible for meeting both the Division's objectives and the strategic corporate objectives of the organisation and will provide leadership and management support to staff within their areas of management. The role will also focus on the development and implementation of projects working within tight time scales when required.
• The Assistant General Manager will deputise, where appropriate for the General Manager in their absence.
  
  With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, St George's Hospital is the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
The main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region. As well as acute hospital services, St Georges Hospital provides a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010. St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across south west London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people. The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases.