Managing Director (Women, Children and Young People)

Transformationunitgm; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A reputed healthcare trust in the United Kingdom is seeking an exceptional Managing Director for the Women's, Children's & Young People Care Group. This senior leadership role requires strategic and operational oversight across multiple hospitals. The ideal candidate will possess significant healthcare leadership experience, a master’s degree, and a proven track record in healthcare management. Responsibilities include ensuring quality care, managing financial performance, and fostering collaboration across clinical units. This is a high-impact position that demands exceptional commitment to improving patient outcomes.

Benefits

Relocation policy

Parking available at Trust sites

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or public healthcare.
• Demonstrated experience with project management techniques.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Care Group senior leadership team and ensure operational delivery.
• Promote a culture of openness, learning, and quality improvement.
• Accountable for compliance with regulatory standards and guidelines.

Skills

Proven and significant leadership experience

Expertise in a Healthcare environment

Project and programme management techniques

Education

Educated to Masters level in relevant subject

Qualification in management coaching or improvement

Job description

Employer East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Trustwide Town Trustwide Salary VSM Closing 20/01/2026 23:59

VSM

Job overview

We are seeking an exceptional senior leader to join our Trust as Managing Director for the Women’s, Children’s & Young People Care Group. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across a diverse portfolio of services delivered at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital, William Harvey Hospital, Kent & Canterbury Hospital, and across community and system partners. As a key member of the Trust’s senior leadership team, you will shape and deliver care that is safe, effective, compassionate and sustainable, ensuring the Care Group meets its quality, performance, financial, workforce, transformation and system-working objectives. This is a high-profile role requiring visible leadership, strong partnership working and a relentless focus on improving outcomes and experience for women, children, young people and their families across the system.

Main duties of the job

As Managing Director, you will lead the Care Group senior leadership team, working in close partnership with the Director of Nursing, Medical Director and clinical and operational leaders. You will be accountable for the strategic direction, operational delivery and continuous improvement of services, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, national priorities and Trust objectives. You will promote a culture of openness, learning and quality improvement, while ensuring robust clinical governance, risk management and patient safety arrangements. The role includes responsibility for financial performance, delivery of cost improvement programmes, development of business cases and effective use of resources. You will act as an ambassador for the Trust, contribute to corporate strategy, participate in the senior on-call rota, and work collaboratively across place and system partners to deliver integrated, high-quality care.

Working for our organisation

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference’. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.

Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country. Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and above.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be accountable for planning, implementing and delivering Care Group services through robust annual planning, performance management and financial control. This includes maintaining a live risk register, responding to quality and safety intelligence, ensuring CQC compliance, and escalating risks appropriately. You will lead pathway redesign, transformation and capital developments, using quality improvement methodology and engaging staff, patients and partners. Working closely with finance and information teams, you will ensure accurate data, achievement of targets and continuous service development informed by best practice. At system level, you will build and sustain strong relationships across place and sector partnerships, contribute to shared decision-making, mitigate service and financial risks, and support collective responsibility for population health outcomes, ensuring clear governance, accountability and shared learning across the system.

Person specification

Skills and experience

• Proven and significant leadership experience. Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
• Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects

Qualifications and training

• Educated to Masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
• Qualification in management coaching or improvement Member of a relevant professional Body

Filmed in William Harvey and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother hospitals, the ‘We are the NHS’ campaign highlights the extraordinary work that staff across EKHUFT do every single day. As one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a population of over one million people, EKHUFT was perfectly placed to demonstrate the care, cutting-edge treatments, research, innovations and life-saving operations that the campaign needed.

There are lots of great opportunities at East Kent Hospitals, where staff are caring and put patients first, innovation flourishes and you can develop your career. We’re on an exciting journey of transformation. With a new Medical School at the centre of our community, a focus on research, clinical leadership and making our trust a rewarding and friendly place to work,
there’s never been a better time to join us.To find out more about east Kent visit our website at. The Trust fully supports the SAS Doctors Charter and is committed to their development through its CPD Framework.

We’ll close this job advert once we’ve received sufficient applications which may be before the closing date so please apply as soon as possible. We only accept online applications. If you have any difficulty with this please contact our Resourcing Team on 01227 866450 who are happy to help.

We have a relocation policy for eligible candidates, parking available at Trust sites but we encourage other options, like car sharing or public transport.

The Trust is committed to supporting flexible working to fulfil our pledge as part of The Trust’s People Strategy to help staff to achieve a healthy work/life balance. Please speak with your Recruiting Manager for further information on how this can be managed alongside department expectations and requirements.

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