Care Group Manager - Specialty Medicine

Care Group Manager - Specialty Medicine

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The closing date is 02 February 2026

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

Specialty Medicine at PHU is a vast, dynamic portfolio covering Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Endoscopy, Diabetes, and Respiratory. This is a role for a resilient, high-energy leader.

You will work alongside the Care Group Director and Senior Matron to foster a positive culture. Your role is to ensure that the Care Group structure is fit for purpose to deliver performance standards including RTT, DMO1 and Cancer, whilst supporting a strong learning and open culture through a shared governance approach.

You will manage a complex budget that requires balancing the high costs of specialised clinical staffing with the need for efficiency and innovation.

You will be at the forefront of the Trust's most pressing operational challenges, ensuring that our medical specialties operate with maximum productivity and efficiency.

You will be the operational lead for a diverse group of clinical specialties. Your primary focus will be the delivery of integrated clinical, operational, and financial performance. This means bridging the gap between urgent care demand and elective specialty capacity. You will lead the Care Group's annual budget setting, manage complex RTT and Endoscopy access standards, and drive the move toward comprehensive 7/7 service delivery to improve patient outcomes and discharge efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

Demand & Capacity: Developing high-performing teams to ensure the Care Groups meets the national and local performance metrics for both non-elective and elective care and optimising length of stay.

Performance Leadership: Be the accountable lead for monthly performance reviews, presenting clear data on performance, quality, safety and financial plans.

Service Development: Lead on the expansion of 7day services and the modernisation of chronic disease management pathways.

Closing date for applications is Monday 2nd February

Interviews will take place on Monday 9th February

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent qualification/experience.
• Post Graduate Qualification or equivalent.
• Evidence of continuing professional development including management studies to masters level or above or equivalent experience.

• Significant experience working on both strategic and operational matters.
• Significant NHS/Public sector experience and knowledge and understanding of the NHS system reform policy and other key policy drivers.
• Demonstrable success in building, leading, motivating and developing multi-disciplinary teams as highly effective people manager.
• Experience of leadership of complex operational change/project management while also developing and maintaining high standards of quality.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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