Assistant General Manager

Queen Square Division

This exciting new role within the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery will be a crucial part of our senior management team.

You will have the unique opportunity to support and gain experience from a wide range of services within the Stroke, Rehabilitation and Therapies department.

You will have a broad mix of skills and experience enabling you to manage a comprehensive and varied portfolio, and will support the shared vision to aspire to excellence.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have specific focus on delivery and performance of both clinical and administration teams you will do this through supporting the department with service management ensuring the delivery of operational planning including capacity and demand planning, supporting the business planning and business case development and additionally supporting internal projects.

To do all this you must have the knowledge or experience of working on complex projects and dealing with a range of stakeholders.

You must have proven people skills and a track record of delivering high quality work in a fast paced environment. You will also have a keen eye for data

In return we will support your development and help you grow in a busy and fast paced acute environment. You will be part of a vibrant and busy team who work together to support each other to achieve the best.

About us

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*

UCLH top trust to work at in England for the second year running! : University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

*In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England for the second year in a row.

UCLH top trust to work at in England for the second year running! University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Once again, UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend us as a place to work.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or equivalent professional qualification
• Recognised management qualification/or working towards
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Clinical Experience

Essential

• Experience of operational management in a healthcare setting
• Experience of successfully managing a team
• Success in working collaboratively across professions and services
• Demonstrable success in planning and managing change
• Budgetary management experience

Desirable

• Experience of working within neurosciences, Stroke, Private Patients, SRS/Gamma Knife services

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• To clearly demonstrate leadership and ability to motivate and empower others
• Excellent analytical skills
• Ability to influence clinicians and managers for service improvement
• Effective budgetary and resource management
• Developing and implementing policies, guidelines and projects from initiation to completion
• Computer literate, able to manage data required for performance management
• Ability to prioritise work, meet tight deadlines and work independently
• Positive and effective team worker

Communication

Essential

• Excellent communication and analytical skills including:
• ointer-personal skills
• oliaison and negotiation skills
• owriting and presentation skills
• odata interpretative skills

Employer details

Employer name

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, UCLH

Queen Square

London

WC1N 3BG

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309-UCLH-4720-A