Deputy General Manager - Children's Community Services

We are looking for a highly motivated and dynamic individual to who can join the directorate management team to provide clear, compassionate, and inspirational leadership across our children's community services. We are a supportive and friendly team, striving to deliver excellent and innovative care to our local children and their families.

The successful candidate will work alongside our Clinical Director, General Manager, Head of Nursing, and Head of Therapies in supporting the operational delivery of our services. This will include quality and productivity performance management, leading projects, and supporting workforce development. Strategically, the post holder will be required to work with external partners (e.g. NHS and Local Authority commissioners) on a range of initiatives to support the health and wellbeing of families and raise the profile of children's community services., The Deputy General Manager (DGM) is accountable to the General Manager. The purpose of the DGM is to support and deputise for the General Manager and Head of Nursing to ensure that both strategic and operational demands are met.

The DGM role will be accountable to the General Manager for the delivery of clinical services within and across the directorate, for assessing the impact of change and making decisions, balancing risks and priorities, and for providing advice to the General Manager and the Directorate Management Team.

The post holder will support the Clinical Director and General Manager with the development and delivery of a strategic vision and ensure service changes meet internal and external expectations and standards.

The post holder will be responsible for implementing and managing systems and processes to ensure that all services are delivered in accordance with Trust-wide policies.

The post has direct line management responsibility for the directorate service managers and the delivery and performance management of those services. In the first instance, this will include the review and, where necessary, the development of mechanisms for performance management at service level, workforce development and representing the GM and HON in their absence.

The post holder will need to be able to influence and engage with stakeholder partners across the system and possess a clear voice and vision for the communities we serve. They should have excellent communication skills with a record of service delivery, quality improvement and workforce development.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.