Directorate General Manager - Medicine Care Group | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust


Company:	Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts
Salary:	£79,504 - £91,609 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Nottingham, NG7 2UH
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	15 Jul 2026
Closing date:	14 Aug 2026

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Summary

Join us in shaping the future of Medicine at NUH.

We are seeking two dynamic and ambitious leaders to join the Medicine Care Group as Directorate General Managers. These pivotal roles will provide strategic and operational leadership across large, complex clinical directorates, driving performance, service transformation, quality improvement, and outstanding patient care.

Working as part of an experienced triumvirate leadership team, you will lead multidisciplinary services, deliver against demanding operational objectives, and help shape the future of one of the largest Care Groups within NUH.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced healthcare leader with a proven track record of delivering improvement, leading through change, and inspiring teams in a complex NHS environment.

The Directorate GM roles cover:

• Emergency and Acute Care (EAC) - secondment for 12 months

• GENeRSIS - permanent role

If you are passionate about improving services for patients, developing high-performing teams, and making a meaningful impact at scale, we would love to hear from you.

Supporting the Care Group Leadership Team and the Director of Operations, the post holder will have operational responsibility for the Directorate in the Care Group to ensure that all operational performance targets including waiting lists, finance, workforce and service improvement targets are achieved. The post holder will actively contribute to service integration and to the development of services in their Care Group, and where appropriate the wider Nottingham health and social care system.

Supporting the Care Group Director of Operations, the post holder is responsible for the operational day to day planning, monitoring and delivery of all patient services within the Directorate.

The post holder will be responsible for leading on, and delivering success across, a number of key programmes within the Directorate. These programmes will be essential in ensuring that the Care Group can deliver its primary objectives and targets over the years and will encompass a range of topics including productivity and efficiency, transformation, clinical effectiveness, quality and workforce succession planning.

With over 20,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification for key duties and responsibilities.

The Directorate GM roles cover:

• Emergency and Acute Care (EAC) - secondment for 12 months

• GENeRSIS - permanent role

Individual preferences for these roles will be discussed at interview.

The roles may be partially based at City Hospital in some cases.

This advert closes on Tuesday 28 Jul 2026

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