General Manager | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £64,455 - £74,896 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 October 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, M23 9LT |
| Company: | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7472707/349-WTWA-7472707 |
Summary
We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic General Manager for our Cardiac Surgery and Transplant service who is driven by the desire to do best by our patients.
Are you looking to take your leadership career to the next level? At Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, we are embedding our exciting new Operating Model and placing the roles closest to patient care at the heart of decision-making. By creating clinically led, multidisciplinary leadership teams we can ensure decisions are informed by clinical expertise while keeping the operational expertise needed to run safe, successful services.
We are looking for experienced, forward-thinking leaders able to support the introduction of our new ways of working. You will be well supported with a bespoke personal development plan, and you will also have access to a range of development activities.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a central role in decision-making, influence the future of patient services, and be part of a Trust-wide movement to embed clinical leadership at every level.
The General Manager is responsible to the Clinical Director for the delivery of all patient services within the Cardiac Surgery. The General Manager role in the triumvirate involves ensuring that all operational performance targets, including waiting lists, finance, the quality of services to patients and improving services towards best practice standards within available income are achieved.
The Post Holder will be a member of the triumvirate with the Lead Nurse and Clinical Lead, with direction from the Clinical Director and advice and support from the Clinical Group Directors to achieve
MFT / Clinical Group objectives and will be expected to make a positive contribution to the provision of health services across the Group and the local health and social care economy.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
The general Manager is a key support the Clinical Director in the management of all services across the department ensuring the development and maintenance of the highest standards.
In conjunction with the Clinical Director, the General Manager will ensure that the Clinical Service(s) is able to meet its performance standards.
You will provide support to the Clinical Director in the resolution of any urgent issues within the service(s) and establish systems to implement the MFT/Clinical Group strategies for assessing service users' views on the quality of services provided and for involving patients,
relatives and their representatives in the planning and development of services.
In conjunction with the Clinical Director, the Clinical Group Directors and other General Manager, agree Local Plans relating to capacity and efficiency and be responsible for implementation of changes agreed in negotiations, delivering agreed activity levels to enhance performance.
The General Manager will lead on the service transformation plans in conjunction with MFT/Clinical Group/other Clinical Service colleagues including the identification, development and delivery of appropriate service improvements and play a key role in engaging staff in the development and implementation of service reconfiguration programmes.
The General Manager will be supported by an experienced and professional team of peers.
This advert closes on Tuesday 30 Sep 2025
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