General Manager - Theatres, Anaesthetics, Critical Care and Pain

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic General Manager to provide strategic and operational leadership across multiple high-profile service lines, including Theatres, Anaesthetics, Critical Care and Pain. Working in close partnership with Clinical Directors and the Deputy Head of Nursing, you will play a key role in ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality service delivery. The successful candidate will bring a proven track record in leading complex projects within an acute healthcare setting, along with exceptional attention to detail, resilience under pressure, and a commitment to continuous improvement. You will be responsible for day-to-day operational delivery, financial performance, and long-term planning to ensure business continuity and service resilience.

Main Responsibilities

• Provide operational leadership across designated service lines, ensuring the safe, effective, and efficient delivery of clinical services.
• Collaborate with clinical leads to develop and implement service strategies with clear goals and measurable outcomes.
• Lead robust financial and capacity planning to meet performance targets and support long-term sustainability.
• Ensure business continuity and maintain resilient service delivery frameworks.
• Drive service improvements, foster a culture of innovation, and uphold high standards of patient care and staff engagement.

Who We’re Looking For

• Substantial experience at a senior operational level within an acute NHS setting.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to manage complex challenges and competing priorities.
• Demonstrated success in delivering large-scale change and service improvement.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Education, Training and Qualifications

• Educated to Masters degree level or equivalent experience.
• Extensive up to date knowledge of the NHS.
• Evidence of CPD.
• Evidence of other specialist knowledge at higher degree or masters level.

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience within the Healthcare sector at senior manager level including operational responsibility for a directorate level service.
• Proven track record of achieving challenging healthcare targets.
• Experience of delivering programmes of change within an NHS setting.
• Experience of managing and hearing performance issues.
• Well-developed IT skills to manage and report on highly complex performance management information.
• Experience of working in an Acute Teaching hospital.

Skills

• Excellent communications skills, written and oral.
• Evidence of being a team-player but able to stand back when necessary.
• Ability to motivate staff.
• Ability to interpret, analyse and present highly complex data/information at Directorate Level.
• Ability to manage conflict.
• Logical thinker with evidence of implementation of ideas and solutions.
• Excellent problem solving skills using team when appropriate.
• Business focused and sensitive to clinical and political demands.
• Ability to cut through barriers to change.
• Ability to concentrate frequently whilst dealing with interruptions and moving quickly from one priority to another.
• Proven record of robust performance management.
• Interpret highly complex information concerned with professional, operational and clinical activities to inform decisions and make judgments on recommendations relating to future actions.
• Establish appropriate working relationships with colleagues in other directorates with whom their service interacts and with external bodies.

We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.