Directorate General Manager – Theatres, Anaesthesia & Periop Care

Company: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS
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Location: Nottingham
Job Description:

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for leading on, and delivering success across a number of key programmes within the Directorate. These programmes will be essential in ensuring that the Care Group can deliver its primary objectives and targets over the years and will encompass a range of topics including productivity and efficiency, transformation, clinical effectiveness, quality and workforce succession planning.

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria

  • Educated to first degree level
  • Further training to masters level or equivalent experience
  • Previous successful management experience at a senior level within the NHS

Experience

Essential criteria

  • Highly developed leadership and organisational skills
  • Highly developed specialist knowledge of NHS policy, health sector practices and functions of NHS provider organisations and current targets in place
  • High level of understanding of NHS contracting and funding flows
  • Proven track record of senior operational management in a multi-disciplinary environment
  • Extensive experience of influencing decision making within a large and complex organisation

Communication and Relationship

Essential criteria

  • Demonstrates ability to communicate highly complex, sensitive and confidential information appropriately.
  • Ability to communicate with both internal staff and external agencies to ensure compliance with performance targets.
  • Highly developed leader with strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Ability to inspire confidence and respect in others

Analytical and Judgement

Essential criteria

  • Demonstrates ability to analyse complex facts or situations in relation to performance targets, strategy, finance
  • Proven track record of managing operating budgets and delivering financial balance
  • Experience of implementing and evaluating a range of projects/initiatives that represent solutions to changing workforce/service environments

Planning and Organisation

Essential criteria

  • Proven track record of developing successful business plans and strategy for planning activity
  • Experience of managing complex organisational change including working with clinical & non clinical staff to change team structures and ways of working
  • Confident in presenting complex information to wide and varied audience both internal and external to the organisation
  • Experience of formulating long term strategic plans and impact on the organisation – translating business strategy into operational delivery

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

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Posted: May 30th, 2026