Divisional General Manager - Medicine Division

Overview

Divisional General Manager - Medicine Division (12-month fixed term, maternity leave cover).

Closing date: 28 January 2026.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced and dynamic Divisional General Manager for a 12-month fixed term, providing maternity leave cover to our Medicine Division. As DGM, you will work closely with clinical and operational leaders to ensure the delivery of high-quality, safe and efficient services across the Medicine Division. You will be responsible for driving performance, managing budgets, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

This role requires a strategic thinker with strong interpersonal skills, capable of balancing operational priorities with long-term objectives.

You will work alongside the Divisional Clinical Directors and the Divisional Director of Nursing who together form an ambitious, forward-thinking triangle. You will work with the Trust Executive Team and other divisional teams to ensure optimal performance, service integration and contribute to the development of services in your division and, where appropriate, the wider Nottinghamshire health and social care system. In return, we will provide a challenging yet fulfilling role, career support and development.

You will be based in a fantastic state-of-the-art building in an organisation with caring and friendly colleagues in the NHS.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced and dynamic Divisional General Manager for a 12-month fixed term, providing maternity leave cover to our Medicine Division. As DGM, you will work closely with clinical and operational leaders to ensure the delivery of high-quality, safe and efficient services across the Medicine Division. You will be responsible for driving performance, managing budgets, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

This role requires a strategic thinker with strong interpersonal skills, capable of balancing operational priorities with long-term objectives.

You will work alongside the Divisional Clinical Directors and the Divisional Director of Nursing who together form an ambitious, forward-thinking triumvirate.

You will work with the Trust Executive Team and other divisional teams to ensure optimal performance, service integration and contribute to the development of services in your division and, where appropriate, the wider Nottinghamshire health and social care system.

In return, we will give you a challenging yet fulfilling role, career support, and development. You will be working in a fantastic state-of-the-art building in an organisation with some of the most caring and friendly colleagues you will meet in the NHS.

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other.

We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

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