Directorate Manager - ENT and OMFS

Go back Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

The closing date is 06 October 2026

Areyou an excellent people manager with the ability to shape and influence service change? Do you have the proven abilityto translate a challenging, fast moving and complex agendas into reality?

The Surgical Care Group is on an exciting journey of improvement and development to ensure that our services are focusedon quality and safety. We currently havean exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic leader to joinus and embrace the journey of continuous improvement and transformational change.

Reporting to the Associate Chief Operating Officer, you will directly manage the ENT/Audiology and OMFS Directorate.

You will be responsible for ensuring operational safety, efficient and effectiveness of services, effective clinical governance and risk management, and budgetary/workforce management.

Who should apply? Youshould be enthusiastic; experience senior leader looking to develop and expand your NHS managerial career. You must be able to demonstrate a strong performance focus and evidence sustained recovery and transformation services you have managed to date. You must be an experience manager who can lead a large team effectively ensuring performance and activity targets are achieved. Youshould be able to demonstrate how you have worked collaboratively and successfully with clinical teams.

Finally, you should be passionate about improving care andup for a challenge.

The post holder will provide operational leadership and management for the Directorate working in partnership with the Clinical Director and Matrons. The post holder will ensure that the Directorate and its services meet their quality, activity and financial targets. Working with the Clinical Directors, Matrons, Associate Chief Operating Officer, Associate Chief Medial Officer, Associate Chief Nursing Officer to assist in the planning, objective-setting and change management within both the Directorate and the Care Group as a whole.

Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment:

As part of the Trust's aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can request to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role.

Applicants will be prompted in the application form to declare if they wish to be considered under this expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, and their response would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel.

If you have any queries about expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please contact Rob Saunders (HR Manager - Recruitment) in confidence via email

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to alarger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services fromthree sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and ourcaring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people towork with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewiseaccreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring aDBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check(at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

PERFORMANCE

• To ensure that the operational performance of the Directorate is effectively managed to meet agreed objectives and targets.
• To work in close conjunction with the Associate Chief Operating Officer, Clinical Directors and Matrons to set and deliver the Directorate objectives, in line with Surgical Care Group and Corporate…