Operational Service Manager - Medicine (GUH)

Llanfrechfa, Wales, United Kingdom

7/18/2025

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.

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Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.

The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2025/2026 and will be implemented in August 2025 with arrears backdated to 1st April 2025 where applicable.

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process

Job Overview

Are you a dynamic leader seeking a pivotal role in transforming healthcare services? This is a senior management position within Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB) Join us as a Medicine Site Manager at the Grange University Hospital and place a key part in delivering the ambitious vision set out in the Health Board's Annual plan. This post offers you the unique opportunity to work collaboratively with the Divisional Director, Assistant Divisional Director, Clinical Directors, General Manager, Assistant General Manager, Senior Nurses and Directorate Managers.

Main duties of the job

• Strategic and operational management of all staff within your portfolio
• Leadership and oversight of the resident doctor provision, working in partnership with the Acute Medicine directorate and medical staffing teams
• Driving service and pathway transformation
• Implementing robust processes to optimise patient pathways, reduce length of stay, and uphold excellence in clinical governance
• Effective management of a devolved budget
• Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders
  
  

Working for our organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to Master degree level or equivalent demonstrable level of work experience
• Significant experience or having worked in a senior capacity in health
• Knowledge of key stakeholders for health and social care delivery
• Significant of successfully working in an environment in which the interests of a variety of stakeholders need to be considered and balanced
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Updated knowledge of Welsh Health and Social Care and its performance
• Experience of managing difficult situations and resolving conflicts or concerns
  
  

Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to lead, develop, and implement longer term policy and service development strategies
  
  

Desirable criteria

• To have managed in a multidisciplinary setting