Divisional General Manager - Medicine Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for a Divisional General Manager to lead our Medicine division ensuring the highest standards of safe and high-quality patient care. This role provides strategic and operational leadership, driving continuous improvement, service integration, and performance within the division and across the wider Nottinghamshire health and social care system.

You will work closely with the Trust Executive, Divisional Clinical Chair, and Divisional Director of Nursing to shape services and deliver outstanding care.

In return, we offer a challenging yet rewarding role, career development opportunities, and the chance to work in a state-of-the-art environment alongside some of the friendliest and most dedicated colleagues in the NHS.

Key Responsibilities:

1. The effective operational management of the Division, ensuring the co-ordination and planning of services between Service Management Teams and other Divisions to enable the provision of high-quality services.
2. An effective performance management framework to support the Service Management Teams to deliver agreed activity and financial plans and performance, quality and workforce standards.
3. The delivery of effective and appropriate governance and risk management arrangements are in place across the Division’s services.
4. The Division’s income and control budgets are managed in accordance with SFIs and Standing orders, the principles of Service Line Reporting and Establishment Control.
5. The Division has a robust strategy and agreed priorities that align with the Trust strategic priorities.
6. Staff are supported to work in an environment and culture consistent with the Trusts values.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

To understand the role in more detail, please see attached Divisional General Manager job pack document.

This advert closes on Sunday 6 Apr 2025.

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