Specialty Manager Surgery

Royal Surrey is looking for a new Specialty Manager to join the Trust and work within the Surgery Division supporting our surgical specialties.

This Specialty Manager post is a key position within the Division's management structure, responsible for providing day-to-day operational management and support, in addition to jointly leading with clinical leads a large amount of service transformation and networked working with other local district general and teaching hospitals.

The Specialty Manager is jointly responsible with the Clinical Director and Matron for the effective strategic and operational management of the Strategic Business Unit's (SBU), ensuring the delivery of high quality patient services, The Specialty Manager with the Clinical Director and Matron will provide overall leadership and direction to the specialties and services they oversee.

The post-holder will co-ordinate the activities of the SBU (alongside the managers and matrons of the other departments), as well as working with allied health professional teams that support patients, thereby ensuring seamless clinical services are provided.

The Specialty Manager will develop and manage the activity plans for the SBU ensuring that service pathways and capacity and demand analysis is understood ensuring the delivery of outstanding services. This will include playing a key role in identifying opportunities for clinical innovation and modernisation, the delivery of all operational performance targets, financial management, bed utilisation and management. Continually improving the quality of services to patients and redesigning services to meet best practice standards, improving efficiency and effectiveness and available resources.

The post-holder will be responsible for securing the commitment of all staff in the SBU to organisational change and continuous improvement.

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.

We have received an overall Good rating from the CQC with Medical care (including older peoples care), End of Life Care and Maternity services being deemed Outstanding by the CQC.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.