General Manager - Trauma and Orthopaedics

The Division of Surgery is one of four Operational Divisions within University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trusts (UHDB). The Division of Surgery comprises four Business Units: Head Neck Eyes and Plastic (HNEP), General Surgery, Urology, and Vascular (GSU), Theatres, Anaesthetics and ITU (A&T), and Trauma and Orthopaedics encompassing General Orthopaedics, Trauma, Spines, and Hands from the dedicated Pulvertaft Centre (T&O).

Each Business is clinically led and operationally managed by a dynamic triumvirate of a Clinical Lead, General Manager, and Lead Nurse. The T&O services are delivered across all of our sites with outpatient appointments and diagnostics at both main acute hospitals and a further eight community sites, with surgeries performed at Royal Derby, Burton, and Ilkeston Hospitals.

The UHDB T&O service is one of the largest in the country and, having struggled to reduce waits in line with national targets, we believe we have now turned that corner and are laser-focused on driving our performance to be the best in the country. Do you have the drive, ambition, focus, skills, and experience to help make that happen? If you believe you do, we would really like to hear from you. The GM role is hugely challenging but also very rewarding and a great career move for those aspiring to Director and Executive levels within a large complex organisation.

You Will Be Responsible For:

• Supporting the Divisional Director in directing, guiding, and leading the Business Unit Management Teams in the overall management of the Business Unit and for developing business strategic plans.
• Performance management frameworks to ensure the delivery of all key activity and financial targets.
• A key dimension will be to support the Divisional Director in engaging Clinical Managers in the complex management agenda, including the preparation of annual business plans and the development of capacity and capability to deliver both local and national priorities.

Closing date of applications: 20 March 2025
Interview date: 3 April 2025

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people, and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.

Our fundamental values of Compassion, Openness, and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust, and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In Return We Will Offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development.
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, and car schemes.

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research-active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

For further details/informal visits contact:

Name: Aronvier Bola
Job title: PA to Divisional Director for Surgery
Email address:
Telephone number: 01332 789031

If you would like to find out more, please call Mark Lacey, Director for the Division of Surgery on 07999912299 for an informal chat.

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