Band 8b General Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and experienced operational manager to support the Anaesthetics and Pain services at General Manager level at University Hospitals Birmingham., The General Manager role requires a highly competent individual with extensive experience in the management of people and services at a service team level or above, in the health care sector. The General Manager will lead, direct and co-ordinate a high quality, safe, effective and efficient service provision to meet the needs of patients within our pain service and surgical specialities.

Working within the new structure of CDG9B the postholder will work closely with the clinical service leads, nursing leads and a range of stakeholders across the hospital, the successful candidate will be well supported by the senior leadership team.

The Anaesthetics service is based on the Queen Elizabeth (QE) site and the pain service is based both at the Solihull and QE hospital sites. Day to day the postholder will be based within the theatre complex of the new QE hospital.

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.