Deputy General Manager

A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as Deputy General Manager for the Critical Care Directorate. You will be an individual with an excellent track-record in operational management, combined with the commitment and leadership skills to deliver our ambitious and exciting vision for the Critical Care Directorate which will be expanding over the next two years, with funding secured for a 20 bedded new-build in addition to the 62 existing beds.
You will work closely with the General Manager, Head of Nursing, Clinical Director, Care Group Lead(s) and Matrons to provide operational management and contribute to the strategic development for Care Groups within the Critical Care Directorate. This includes ensuring that national and corporate targets / objectives are translated into operational plans and providing clear and consistent leadership to staff in the delivery of those plans, The Deputy General Manager is responsible for the operational delivery of all aspects of the Directorate. They will directly manage the performance of the three care groups within the Directorate. The DGM will be required to work with other management teams to achieve the required outputs.
The Deputy General Manager is responsible for the performance of staff whose main base is in the Critical Care Directorate. Each Directorate has a unique combination of challenges to overcome in order to ensure that St. George's delivers an outstanding clinical service. The Deputy General Manager works as a peer with the Lead Clinician and Matron in each Care Group and works closely with the Clinical Director.
The Deputy General Manager takes responsibility for operational issues in the Directorate particularly the management of issues around acute care and bed flows. The Deputy General Manager will deputise for the General Manager whenever the latter is off site in the community. The Lead Clinicians takes overall responsibility for strategic issues

Working for our organisation
Our 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.
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London and tertiary services into Surrey and Sussex. The large number of services include cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences, vascular surgery, renal transplantation, ENT, maxillofacial and head and neck surgery, haematology and oncology, complex general surgery and interventional radiology.
A number of our services are members of established clinical networks which bring together doctors, nurses and other clinicians from a range of healthcare providers working to improve the quality of services for patients. These include the South London Cardiac and Stroke Network and the South-west London and Surrey Trauma Network, for which St George's Hospital is the designated heart attack centre, hyper-acute stroke unit and major trauma centre.