General Manager Maternity and Gynaecology Business Unit

This role offers an opportunity for an exceptional candidate to join the maternity and gynaecology business unit as General Manager.

You will lead and inspire our teams to provide high quality care across all of our services on both acute sites and community sites., The General Manager will be responsible for supporting the Divisional Director in directing, guiding, and leading the business unit management team in the overall management of the business unit and for developing strategic plans and performance management frameworks to ensure delivery of all key activity and financial targets.

A key dimension will be to support the Divisional Director in the engagement of clinical managers in the complex management agenda and the development of capacity and capability to deliver both local and national priorities.

This is a senior operational role with a wide-ranging portfolio across urgent and planned care with a strong emphasis on improvement and efficiency.

Successful candidates will need to have demonstrable senior leadership experience in the acute sector with a proven ability to collaborate with, motivate and lead clinical and non-clinical teamsin the achievement of key performance indicators and will possess excellent communication skills with a proven track record of delivery in a complex environment.

At UHDB around 9,000 babies are born across our two sites each year at Royal Derby Hospital (RDH) and Queens Hospital Burton (QHB). We provide antenatal and postnatal care for 11,500 women each year and, at RDH, we offer an alongside birth centre. We support women through low and high-risk care pathways, and some specialty pathways like diabetes and cardiology.

We have staff who are kind, caring and compassionate, and who want to deliver exceptional care together for every person who needs us - and that remains our aspiration.

This is an exciting new era on our maternity improvement journey, following a £5.4million into our services to strengthen our workforce, our technology and our processes, so that we can further improve what we do and deliver the best quality care to women and their babies. This is a great opportunity to join UHDB and make a real impact for the women and families we care for.

As a University Trustwe value learning, teaching, and training so that we help you to be the best that you can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We are a vibrant and inclusive organisation, and we always want to treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves.

An extensive induction package is offered to successful candidates joining our Maternity services to ensure you are well supported and have time to adjust to working within our teams.