Deputy Divisional Manager in London inLondon PUBLISHED TUE 8 APR 2025 Jump to job information section
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Are you looking for the next step in senior leadership that gives you autonomy to oversee delivery within a growing division, and develop skills in strategic, programme management and operational problem solving?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Deputy Divisional Manager to join the Children and Young People’s division.
This is a high profile, challenging and rewarding leadership role within the Trust with an emphasis on innovation, achieving operational and financial performance, and improving staff wellbeing. This role offers significant exposure to senior leadership across the organisation, the opportunity to lead on large scale projects management and the division is passionate about developing people to fulfil their career development goals.
We are looking for dynamic individuals who can demonstrate initiative and a commitment to improving children and young people’s care through experience of operational delivery and collaborative leadership and solution focused thinking. Reporting to the Divisional Manager you will provide strategic and operational leadership, for a division that employs over 400 staff and has a turnover of £55m.
The Deputy Divisional Manager is responsible for providing leadership of staff and services across the division, including ensuring that all staff and services in the teams deliver agreed standards of excellence. They will have responsibility for the overall effective and efficient management of all CYP services. To be an active member of the CYP Divisional Senior Team, contributing to the strategic direction and decision making on operational matters.
Performance lead: be accountable for delivery of all key workforce, financial, quality, and operational performance indicators. Development and implementation of the Paediatric and adolescent daycare unit and relocation, and T15 Private healthcare expansion business cases, including operational implementation of these programmes within the context of existing CYP service delivery, alongside the clinical and private healthcare team. To be the senior point of contact for escalation for operational issues, with support from the Divisional Manager as required.
The post will deputise, where appropriate for the Divisional Manager, Divisional Clinical Director and General Manager and other members of the operational and clinical leadership team, in their absence. We support flexible working applications, and within this there is a requirement for the role to be on site at least 80% of the working week, to support staff on site and provide visible leadership and problem solving.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2and indirect emissions by 2040.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Toral Pandya Job title: Divisional Manager Email address:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Deputy Divisional Manager to join the Children and Young People’s division.
This is a high profile, challenging and rewarding leadership role within the Trust with an emphasis on innovation, achieving operational and financial performance, and improving staff wellbeing. This role offers significant exposure to senior leadership across the organisation, the opportunity to lead on large scale projects management and the division is passionate about developing people to fulfil their career development goals.
We are looking for dynamic individuals who can demonstrate initiative and a commitment to improving children and young people’s care through experience of operational delivery and collaborative leadership and solution focused thinking. Reporting to the Divisional Manager you will provide strategic and operational leadership, for a division that employs over 400 staff and has a turnover of £55m.
The Deputy Divisional Manager is responsible for providing leadership of staff and services across the division, including ensuring that all staff and services in the teams deliver agreed standards of excellence. They will have responsibility for the overall effective and efficient management of all CYP services. To be an active member of the CYP Divisional Senior Team, contributing to the strategic direction and decision making on operational matters.
Performance lead: be accountable for delivery of all key workforce, financial, quality, and operational performance indicators. Development and implementation of the Paediatric and adolescent daycare unit and relocation, and T15 Private healthcare expansion business cases, including operational implementation of these programmes within the context of existing CYP service delivery, alongside the clinical and private healthcare team. To be the senior point of contact for escalation for operational issues, with support from the Divisional Manager as required.
The post will deputise, where appropriate for the Divisional Manager, Divisional Clinical Director and General Manager and other members of the operational and clinical leadership team, in their absence. We support flexible working applications, and within this there is a requirement for the role to be on site at least 80% of the working week, to support staff on site and provide visible leadership and problem solving.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2and indirect emissions by 2040.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Toral Pandya Job title: Divisional Manager Email address:
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