General Manager Gynaecology Business Unit

We are seeking a General Manager to join our Women's & Children's Division and play a pivotal role in delivering outstanding healthcare services to our community. This is a critical senior leadership post within the Gynaecology Business Unit, providing operational leadership and strategic oversight to ensure the delivery of safe, efficient, and compassionate care. At a time of unprecedented demand on healthcare services, your leadership will be central to maintaining high standards, improving performance, and shaping future services. As General Manager, you will work as part of a triumvirate leadership team, alongside the Clinical Director and Matron, providing visible, cohesive, and effective leadership across the Business Unit. You will hold responsibility for the operational management, performance delivery, and resource utilisation of services, ensuring compliance with quality, safety, and financial targets. Working closely with the Divisional Director and Deputy Divisional Director, you will contribute to the strategic direction of the Division, developing and implementing robust strategic plans and performance frameworks., Provide strong, visible operational leadership across the Gynaecology Business Unit

• Work collaboratively within the triumvirate model to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care
• Lead service performance, ensuring delivery of activity, quality, and financial targets
• Develop and implement strategic and operational plans aligned to divisional and organisational priorities
• Oversee effective resource management to maximise efficiency and outcomes
• Drive service redesign and continuous improvement initiatives
• Engage and support clinical, operational, and multidisciplinary teams in delivering change
• Foster a positive, inclusive, and high-performing culture
  
  We are looking for an inspiring and resilient leader who brings:
• Extensive NHS operational management experience, ideally within complex service environments
• A strong track record of delivering performance and managing competing priorities
• Proven leadership and decision-making skills in high-pressure settings
• Experience of working collaboratively with multidisciplinary clinical teams
• The ability to lead service transformation and improvement programmes
• Strong communication, influencing, and stakeholder engagement skills
• A passion for delivering outstanding, patient-centred care
  
  At UHDB around 9,000 babies are born across our two sites each year at Royal Derby Hospital (RDH) and Queens Hospital Burton (QHB). We provide antenatal and postnatal care for 11,500 women each year and, at RDH, we offer an alongside birth centre. We support women through low and high-risk care pathways, and some specialty pathways like diabetes and cardiology.
We have staff who are kind, caring and compassionate, and who want to deliver exceptional care together for every person who needs us - and that remains our aspiration. This is an exciting new era on our maternity improvement journey, following a £5.4million into our services to strengthen our workforce, our technology and our processes, so that we can further improve what we do and deliver the best quality care to women and their babies. This is a great opportunity to join UHDB and make a real impact for the women and families we care for. As a University Trustwe value learning, teaching, and training so that we help you to be the best that you can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We are a vibrant and inclusive organisation, and we always want to treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. An extensive induction package is offered to successful candidates joining our Maternity services to ensure you are well supported and have time to adjust to working within our teams.