Directorate General Manager - Medicine Care Group

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Directorate General Manager - Medicine Care Group

The closing date is 28 July 2026

Join us in shaping the future of Medicine at NUH.

We are seeking two dynamic and ambitious leaders to join the Medicine Care Group as Directorate General Managers. These pivotal roles will provide strategic and operational leadership across large, complex clinical directorates, driving performance, service transformation, quality improvement, and outstanding patient care.

Working as part of an experienced triumvirate leadership team, you will lead multidisciplinary services, deliver against demanding operational objectives, and help shape the future of one of the largest Care Groups within NUH.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced healthcare leader with a proven track record of delivering improvement, leading through change, and inspiring teams in a complex NHS environment.

The Directorate GM roles cover:

• Emergency and Acute Care (EAC) - secondment for 12 months
• GENeRSIS - permanent role

If you are passionate about improving services for patients, developing high‑performing teams, and making a meaningful impact at scale, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Supporting the Care Group Leadership Team and the Director of Operations, the post holder will have operational responsibility for the Directorate in the Care Group to ensure that all operational performance targets including waiting lists, finance, workforce and service improvement targets are achieved. The post holder will actively contribute to service integration and to the development of services in their Care Group, and where appropriate the wider Nottingham health and social care system.

Supporting the Care Group Director of Operations, the post holder is responsible for the operational day to day planning, monitoring and delivery of all patient services within the Directorate.

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.

About us

With over 20,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

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.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification for key duties and responsibilities.

The Directorate GM roles cover:

• Emergency and Acute Care (EAC) - secondment for 12 months
• GENeRSIS - permanent role

Individual preferences for these roles will be discussed at interview.

The roles may be partially based at City Hospital in some cases.

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

• oEducated to first degree level
• oFurther training to masters level or equivalent experience
• oPrevious successful management experience at a senior level with applicable specialist knowledge

Experience

• oHighly developed leadership and organisational skills
• oExperience of leading and managing substantial service change and redesign in a complex environment
• oHighly developed specialist knowledge of NHS policy, health sector practices and functions of NHS provider organisations and current targets in place and functions of NHS provider organisations and current targets in place
• oClear understanding of NHS agenda
• oHigh level understanding of NHS contracting and funding flows
• oProven track record of senior operational management in a multi-disciplinary environment
• oExtensive experience of influencing decision making within a large and complex organisation
• oExperience in analysing performance of are of activity in relation to performance targets, strategic objectives; develop strategies, business plans, advise in areas where expert opinion differs
• oExperience in managing large budgets for multiple departments and or services of major area of activity; responsible for overall budget setting for major area of activity
• oSignificant senior management experience within a complex organisation
• oExperience of management relevant to clinical directorate

Communication and Relationship

• oProviding and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive, or highly contentious information where there are significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome
• oConveys highly contentious information in situations of proposed major change. This may be potentially hostile and antagonistic
• oInfluence and negotiate on delivery of services. Leads the engagement process with strategic stakeholders
• oAbility to communicate with both internal and external agencies to ensure compliance with performance targets
• oHighly developed leader with strong interpersonal and communication skills
• oAbility to inspire confidence and respect in others

Analytical and Judgement

• oManages highly complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, comparison of a range of options to come to recommendations for decision making.
• oAnalyses of performance targets, strategic objectives, business plans as part of wider operational resilience.
• oDemonstrates ability to analyze complex facts or situations in relation to performance targets, strategy, finance
• oProven track record of managing operating budgets and delivering financial balance
• oExperience of implementing and evaluating a range of projects, / initiatives that represent solutions to changing workforce / service environments

Planning and Organisation

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

Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

• Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's "The way we work together" Values and Behaviours

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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