General Manager Women's Health

Site Epsom & St Helier Town Carshalton Salary £85,641 - £97,746 per annum on pro rata basis Salary period Yearly Closing 16/09/2026 23:59

At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.

Job overview

To support the Divisional Director of Operations, W&C on both an operational and strategic basis, to deliver the Service improvement, integration, projects, strategic work and operational delivery across women’s health services within the Division of Women & Children’s Services (W&C).

Main duties of the job

The post holder is expected to function as part of the senior management team for W&C Division and will participate on the Trust’s Senior Management on-call rota, as well as deputising for the DDO W&C.

This is two year fixed term role to support both the day to day functioning of the WH services and support the operational impact of any Trust Board decision to decant services from the WH building at St Helier whilst building improvements are undertaken.

Working for our organisation

St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey.Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.

At gesh we are committed to supporting flexible working arrangements. Applicants are encouraged to discuss any flexibility they may need during the recruitment process.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Working closely with the Divisional Quad (DDO, Divisional Medical Director, Directors of Nursing & Midwifery)), to meet key performance indicators and maintain financial control.
• Working closely with clinicians in order to achieve optimal decisions for overall patient care.
• Building processes around patients and working with patients and carers as partners in the delivery of excellent healthcare.
• In the interests of patient care, supporting the principle of treatment as close to the patient’s home as possible.
• Ensuring that the decisions taken are fully informed and properly balanced, taking account of collective as well as individual need, and the requirement to live within available resources.
• Genuinely promoting and supporting the delivery of national and local healthcare standards as one of the ways of raising healthcare standards for all.
• Wherever possible, seeking to set higher local targets for delivery of healthcare than are prescribed nationally.
• Always comparing to high performing organisations to ensure continuous learning from others.
• Supporting, involving and developing staff, whilst requiring delivery and performance to high standards.
• Contributing to the partnerships within the community, with health, social care, academic partners and major business, amongst others.

Core Responsibilities

• Ensuring quality of services to patients, visitors and staff, including management of clinical governance, healthcare standards and risk.
• Maximising delivery of operational and performance management standards (including cancer, RTT and diagnostic standards) and to develop and deliver recovery plans where performance standards are not being met.
• Planning, marketing and developing services
• Managing capacity and operational planning
• Minimising boundaries between services, both within and outside the division
• Acting as a Deputy to the DDO W&C.
• To work closely with information staff to ensure that any new systems developed meet with local reporting requirements and that their use is embedded in working practices.
• Working with the DDO to ensure safe transfer of women’s health services should the board agree that a decant is needed from the St Helier site to support building improvements .

Qualifications

• Graduate level or equivalent academic or healthcare professional qualification

Experience

• 3 – 5 years experience at senior management level with responsibility for operational matters including staff management, budgetary responsibility, performance targets,

Knowledge

• Understanding of the complexity of the NHS and the likely changes over the next 3-5 years.
• Experience of business planning
• Sound knowledge of current NHS statutory financial requirements

Please refer to the latest UKVI guidance and ensure you have the appropriate right to work before applying for this role.

Safeguarding and DBS Checks
We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. For roles with direct access to these groups, an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required. All staff are expected to understand and uphold their safeguarding responsibilities as part of their role.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.