Band 8b General Manager - Surgical Specialities Portfolio, CDG

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The closing date is 26 February 2026

Clinical Delivery Group 9A are seeking a General Manager, to lead a portfolio of surgical specialities based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

This role is required to provide operational leadership and stability to the speciality portfolio working closely with speciality SMT colleagues and providing assurance and support to the CDG9A leadership team.

This is an exciting, responsible and demanding role that requires close partnership working with medical, nursing, finance, governance and operational colleagues to deliver excellent care to our patients.

This is an excellent opportunity for the right candidate to broaden their leadership and management skills within a surgical specialties portfolio.

The post holder will work with the Associate Director of Operations and Hospital Leadership team to lead and manage the services assigned to them. The post holder will be responsible for providing patient centred operational and strategic business planning and leadership to ensure that the assigned speciality achieve their agreed performance objectives within the resources available.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people.

As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

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• GCSE/O Level -- English and Maths Grade C or equivalent
• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Leadership and management qualification

• Substantial experience in a senior managerial and leadership role within an acute healthcare setting which is commensurate with the complexity and size of the allocated area of responsibility.
• Knowledge and experience of leading significant change to patient services, delivering tangible and sustained improvements.
• Experience of developing and maintaining active partnerships with stakeholders in the development of services.
• Experience of improvement measurement systems and understanding of the role of measurement in performance improvement.
• Experience of directly line managing and providing strategic leadership to large numbers of specialist staff/multi-disciplinary service teams ranging from bands 3 -- 7.
• Experience of managing individual and team performance through the setting of objectives, PDPs and appraisals.
• Experience of application of recruitment strategies and workforce development including undertaking skill mix reviews and succession planning.
• Experience of using service redesign methodology
• Has a highly developed understanding of the changing NHS environment and its impact on service provision and staff.
• Impact -- uses a variety of methods to gain support for ideas, strategies and values.
• Understanding of how to use technology to support delivery of improvements to services.
• Application of absence management, sickness, disciplinary and grievance policies in accordance with UHB HR policies
• Uses technical, non-verbal and visual aids effectively.
• Experience leading and managing Surgical specialities
• Knowledge and experience in managing theatre productivity and efficiency
• Awareness of GIRFT and model hospital metrics and standards
• Experience in Job planning and consultant job plan management

• Organisational skills -- able to deliver objectives within an agreed timeframe.
• Leadership -- highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams and have them understand the Trust's and assigned speciality's expectations.
• Able to build rapport and credibility with senior clinical and managerial teams in the delivery of performance targets, service delivery and change programmes.
• Strategic and business planning -- able to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively and gain agreement to relevant plans.
• Analysis -- proven numeric and analytical skills.
• Ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them.
• Communication --relates to and communicates with all levels of staff.
• Able to prioritise work in the face of competing demands.
• Strong sense of…