Deputy General Manager Harefield Hospital

Harefield, England, United Kingdom

6/12/2025

The deputy General manager (DGM) for Harefield hospital will provide senior support to the day to day running of the hospital. This role is key to supporting the hospital in delivering our financial, quality and operational objectives through the implementation of robust processes and the development of our staff.

The DGM will deputise for the general manager and have line management responsibility for the service management team.

The DGM will ensure that teams are both engaged with the development and delivery of annual business plans.

This role will include participation in the senior manager on call rota covering both Harefield and the Royal Brompton hospitals in a 1:8 capacity.

• Exercise delegated authority from GM and Divisional Director for development and implementation of performance management framework and resolution of day-to-day management issues within the Division.
• Support the GM to hold Lead Clinicians, and administrative managers to account for delivery of their objectives through regular performance review meetings.
• Formally deputise for the GM including in internal and Trust-wide performance meetings.
• Identify early need for remedial action plans where performance targets are not met.
• Responsibility for ensuring sufficient data is available in the Division to monitor and manage performance.
• Provide appropriate input and challenge to clinical and business plans where necessary to ensure high quality performance and key targets are achieved.
• Work closely with the Lead nurse and Matrons to ensure effective support services are in place for all clinical areas.
• Ensure facilities and other resources are available to meet service needs, including analysing and managing space requirements.
• Responsible for achievement of national and local service targets in conjunction with Directors and GM; monitor performance against targets, identify areas of concern and take remedial and preventative action as appropriate putting in place plans to improve performance where required.
  
  

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best-known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts.

Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe.

Harefield Hospital

Harefield hospital is a 170 bedded tertiary cardio-thoracic and transplantation hospital based In the London Borough of Hillingdon in North West London. The site provides both inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic services covering most heart and lung conditions. Harefield has a busy heart attack centre utilising 4 state of the art cath-labs and also provides access to acute aortic dissection services for all patients in North London alongside the Royal Brompton Hospital. Harefield provides tertiary cardiac and thoracic surgery to a wide catchment of hospitals including accepting lung cancer patients from a large part of the South of England.

The site is one of only 5 cardiothoracic transplantation centres in the UK and also runs a busy mechanical support service including managing long term devices in the community

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Michael white Job title: General Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01895 823 737

Please contact the personal assistant to the general manager to arrange an informal discussion [email protected]