An exciting opportunity to apply for the role of General Manager within the Dental Directorate at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, and to be a key part of the Dental Management Team. The Dental Directorate is part of the Integrated and Specialist Medicine Clinical Group. It is based within Guy’s Tower across floors 20-26 and the Dental Centre at St Thomas’ Hospital.
The successful candidate will provide senior leadership within the Directorate and influence service design and delivery across the organisation. They will work with the Clinical Director and Head of Nursing provide leadership to the Directorate staff, ensuring clear communication of Trust and Directorate values, vision, priorities and expectations to ensure the engagement of teams to deliver services of the highest quality, whilst ensuring that key performance and financial targets are met.
The appointee will work in close collaboration with King’s College London, our university partner as the Directorate is host to one of the largest dental teaching hospitals in Europe, with students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
This post would suit an individual who has extensive experience at a senior level within an acute Trust environment and who has a good understanding of governance and performance requirements within the NHS.
Dental are looking for someone who is compassionate, motivated, kind and collaborative, to work alongside side our talented staff.
The General Manager (GM) role is a full time position, accountable to the Clinical Director. The key purpose of this position is to support the Clinical Director by managing the delivery of a range of complex clinical services within the Directorate and for implementing and managing systems and processes to ensure that all services are delivered in accordance with Trust-wide policies.
We are looking for someone who is compassionate, motivated, kind and collaborative, to work alongside side our talented group of nurses, managers, allied healthcare professionals and clinicians.
The post holder will be accountable for the delivery of high quality, cost effective non-nursing patient care within budget constraints. They will provide strong leadership to enable the services to respond effectively to the challenges it will face whilst providing efficient clinical services and sustained improvements.
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. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Poonam Kalsi Job title: Clinical Director - Dental Services Email address:
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