London North West Healthcare NHS Trust • Harrow HA1 3UJ
About this role
Responsible for the operational delivery, performance and governance for General Surgery and St Marks across site. The services may run across both hospital and community sites and cover services within and out of the hospital setting of care.
Responsible for the operational delivery of the resident doctors rotations within the Division. Ensuring recruitment and retention to all posts and reducing locum spend.
Lead directorate teams to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of high-quality patient centred services, strategic planning, RTT delivery, service development and change programmes, driving innovation, modernisation and high levels of staff and patient satisfaction.
Responsible for providing a key leadership role in all the delivery of financial, quality, performance, productivity and workforce targets, local and national, as agreed through the business planning, appraisal and personal development processes.
Responsible for establishing and maintaining internal controls to assure delivery of financial management and the deployment of resources in line with the Trust’s financial plan and in accordance the Trust’s financial governance requirements. This will include delivering contracted activity levels and managing related pay and non-pay expenditure within agreed budgets, achieving required levels of cost improvement and underpinning service line profitability.
· To ensure that the services meet all relevant contractual and performance requirements, including on-going assessment of future demand and capacity requirements.
· To be accountable for the effective performance of these services, demonstrating achievements against national and local requirements.
· To integrate the work of the medical, nursing and other professional staff in the management of these services, working in close conjunction with the Clinical Directors and Head of Nursing, including identifying opportunities for growing, improving and re-designing services, in line with overall organisational strategy.
· To lead the development of business cases for new services and developments, ensuring they support delivery of the corporate and financial plans.
· To lead on the annual business planning process working in close conjunction with the Clinical, Finance and Information Teams.
· To ensure that effective admission and discharge arrangements are in place for these services, including ensuring appropriate application and use of the e-discharge system.
· To be an active member of the Divisional Management Team, as well as contributing to the wider Trust agenda
· To represent the Division/Directorates externally including with other provider organisations, commissioners and regulatory bodies.
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at
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Northwick Park Hospital
home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
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St Mark’s Hospital
an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
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Ealing Hospital
a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
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Central Middlesex Hospital
our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.
This advert closes on Thursday 28 May 2026