University Hospital Southampton NHS FT
Associate Care Group Manager (Peripheral Sites)
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Job Overview
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for detailed job description of the role.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Critical Care, Theatres and Anaesthetics (CCTA) Care Group as an Associate Care Group Manager and help shape the future of elective hub services across UHS.
Working for our organisation
University Hospital Southampton is one of England's largest acute teaching Trusts, offering a wide range of learning and development opportunities to support your career aspirations.
Located on the south coast with an international airport and direct rail links to London, Southampton offers an ideal setting to live and work, with the New Forest, South Downs and Jurassic Coast.
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At UHS, we’re committed to providing a flexible working environment where possible. Whether you are balancing family, study, or your wellbeing with your career, we want to support you so you can help our patients.
At UHS, we proudly champion individuality, recognising that outstanding care is only possible with a diverse, inclusive team. We’re committed to creating an anti-racist, anti-discriminatory environment where everyone feels valued, safe, and empowered to make a meaningful impact in our communities. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences to join us in building a healthcare community where everyone can belong, thrive, and contribute.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
As part of the CCTA management team, you will be at the heart of delivering high-quality, patient-centred services across the Trust’s peripheral elective hubs at RSH, Lymington and HOC.
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Your first priority will be to help establish and deliver the HIOW RSH elective hub as it transitions from PPG to UHS over the next five years. This is a rare opportunity to be involved from the start, working with multidisciplinary teams, specialties and partner organisations to support a smooth transition and successful operational launch. You will then help embed consistent pathways and processes across all UHS-run hubs.
We are looking for a dynamic, motivated individual who enjoys working in a fast-paced, complex environment and is ready to bring fresh thinking, strong operational insight and energy to a key transformation role. This is an excellent opportunity to play a central part in sustainable service recovery, improvement and long-term change.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
What we’re looking for
- A compassionate and confident leader with a strong track record in complex, multi-site, patient-facing operational management, and the ability to spot opportunities in a rapidly changing healthcare environment.
- Proven experience delivering operational excellence and mobilising high-impact, theatre-based projects across agencies and organisational boundaries, with a supportive leadership style that engages, empowers and develops colleagues.
- Curiosity, tenacity and the confidence to turn ideas into practical improvements that make a real difference for patients and teams.
- A calm, resilient and patient approach, with a strong commitment to living our values: Patients First, Working Together and Always Improving.
What You’ll Do
- Take a leading role in the operational delivery of the HIOW RSH elective hub, while maintaining oversight of all UHS elective hubs to support consistent pathways and processes. You will work as part of a collaborative multidisciplinary team supporting the wider CCTA Care Group and will be initially based at SGH (first 12 months).
- Build strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including specialty lead clinicians, matrons and operational managers within the Care Group and across the Trust.
- Bring focus, creativity and sound judgement to a varied portfolio, from project delivery to policy and finance, while keeping patients at the centre of every decision.
- Work closely with the CGM and wider management team to share ideas, support colleagues, deliver projects and meet shared deadlines, including strategic plans, reporting requirements and transformation objectives.
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Person specification
Qualifications, Knowledge And Experience
Essential criteria
- First degree or equivalent
- Evidence of post-qualification study/professional development to Masters level (post grad certificate/MBA/MSc) or equivalent general management experience
- Leadership training
- Management training
- Experience of working competently in an acute healthcare in a clinical care group or equivalent setting in a senior operational delivery/management position
- Demonstrable knowledge of National and Local NHS; including national service frameworks
- Evidence of advanced leadership qualities
- Evidence of presenting complex information to internal and external groups in an understandable way
- Report writing skills and experience
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex data, to facilitate operational delivery decisions to support key performance targets
- Experience of successful delegated budget management and evidence of achieving financial and finite resource targets
- Operational management experience in a clinical care group
Desirable criteria
- Membership of professional body
- Experience of working in NHS
- A breadth of clinical experience across the specialist area
- Project management experience
- Evidence of successful leadership, management and engagement of clinical teams to introduce change
Trust Values
Essential criteria
- Patients First
- Always Improving
- Working Together
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