The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
Centre Manager - Trauma and Specialist Surgery Centre
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Job Overview
Are you an experienced operational leader looking for your next challenge?
We have an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and forward-thinking Centre Manager to join our Trauma & Specialist Surgery Centre on a 12-month fixed-term maternity cover.
Working as part of an experienced triumvirate, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across a diverse portfolio of services, driving operational performance, service transformation, and continuous improvement. You'll work closely with Clinical Directors, Matrons, and multidisciplinary teams to deliver safe, high-quality, patient-centred care while achieving key national and local performance standards.
We're looking for an inspiring leader with significant NHS operational management experience, a proven track record of delivering change, and the ability to build strong relationships, influence at senior levels, and lead high-performing teams.
This is an excellent opportunity to broaden your senior leadership experience, influence strategic decision-making, and make a lasting impact within one of the Trust's largest and most dynamic clinical centres.
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If you're passionate about improving services, empowering people, and delivering outstanding care, we'd love to hear from you. Please use your supporting statement to demonstrate how your experience, achievements, and leadership style meet the requirements of the role.
Main duties of the job
The Centre Manager provides strategic and operational leadership for the Trauma & Specialist Surgery Centre, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, high-quality, and financially sustainable services. Working as part of the Centre triumvirate, the postholder is accountable for operational performance, workforce, finance, governance, and service transformation, ensuring the delivery of Trust and national performance standards while continuously improving patient outcomes and experience. The role provides visible leadership across the Centre, influences strategic decision-making, and works collaboratively across the Trust and wider NHS system to deliver modern, patient-centred services.
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We believe that compassionate care sits at the heart of everything we do. Every member of our team — clinical or non-clinical — plays a vital role in ensuring that patients, families, and colleagues are treated with dignity, empathy, and respect at all times.
We expect all staff to demonstrate compassion not only through their words, but through their actions: by listening attentively, communicating clearly and kindly, and recognising individual needs, feelings, and circumstances of those in our care.
Effective communication is central to safe and high-quality healthcare. We value colleagues who take the time to understand others, explain information in a meaningful way, and respond to concerns with patience and understanding.
By joining our team, you are committing to uphold these values — ensuring that every patient feels heard, respected, and valued, and that compassion is embedded in every interaction, every day.
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