Operational Manager - Clinical Genetics
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 19/08/2026
- Closes
- 01/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting and demanding senior management role within the Medicine Division at Birmingham Children's and Women's NHS Foundation Trust, specifically for Clinical Genetics. The successful candidate will be responsible for the effective operational management of the specialty, driving service improvements and ensuring performance targets are met. It requires strong leadership, operational experience, and skills in budget, workforce, and business planning.
Essential criteria
- Degree level or equivalent experience
- Evidence of ongoing professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate qualification
- Masters level degree or equivalent level
- Analytical and Judgement Skills
- Experience in budgetary and resource management
- Experience in capacity and service planning within an acute health care setting
- Knowledge & Nature of Experience
- Minimum of 3 years relevant managerial experience including line management
- Knowledge of NHS direction and policy initiatives
- Proven change management skills in a complex healthcare setting
- Knowledge, understanding and experience in Risk Management and Governance issues
- Knowledge and understanding of efficiency measures
- Familiarity with IT-based management & clinical information systems
- Experience in managing complex organisational change projects
- PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE
- Flexible to meet service needs
- Ability to work in a challenging and busy environment whilst meeting set deadlines
- Well organised and able to manage time effectively
- Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes
- Proven leadership skills
- Excellent and robust interpersonal & communication skills
- Proactive and self-motivated, with the ability to motivate others
- Ability to work independently and demonstrate a high degree of autonomy
- Ability to prioritise own workload appropriately
- Able to work as part of a multi-professional team
- Ability to mediate successfully / resolve conflict situations
- Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge
- Flexible to meet service needs.
- Ability to work in a challenging and busy environment whilst meeting set deadlines.
- Well organised and able to manage time effectively.
- Assertive and confident.
- Approachable and enthusiastic.
- Degree level or equivalent experience
- Evidence of ongoing professional development.
- Post graduate qualification
- Masters level degree or equivalent level
- Analytical and Judgement Skills
- Experience in budgetary and resource management
- Experience in capacity and service planning within an acute health care setting
- Knowledge & Nature of Experience
- Minimum of 3 years relevant managerial experience including line management
- Knowledge of NHS direction and policy initiatives
- Proven change management skills in a complex healthcare setting
- Knowledge, understanding and experience in Risk Management and Governance issues
- Knowledge and understanding of efficiency measures
- Familiarity with IT-based management & clinical information systems
- Experience in managing complex organisational change projects
- PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE
- Flexible to meet service needs
- Ability to work in a challenging and busy environment whilst meeting set deadlines
- Well organised and able to manage time effectively
- Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes
- Proven leadership skills
- Excellent and robust interpersonal & communication skills
- Proactive and self-motivated, with the ability to motivate others
- Ability to work independently and demonstrate a high degree of autonomy
- Ability to prioritise own workload appropriately
- Able to work as part of a multi-professional team
- Ability to mediate successfully / resolve conflict situations
- Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge
- Flexible to meet service needs.
- Ability to work in a challenging and busy environment whilst meeting set deadlines.
- Well organised and able to manage time effectively.
- Assertive and confident.
- Approachable and enthusiastic.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
The Medicine Division at Birmingham Children's and Women's NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint a Operational Manager to join Clinical Genetics.
If you are motivated, driven and passionate about driving services forward then we want to hear from you. There has never been a more exciting and rewarding time to be part of resetting and delivering clinical genetics services in the NHS. This exciting and demanding post will call on and stretch all of your operational management skills as well as offer opportunities to learn new skills.
As Operational Manager, you will be responsible for the effective operational management of the specialty.
This role is a senior management role with a high profile and requires applicants that have a significant level of leadership knowledge and operational experience including budget management, workforce planning, and business planning and performance management.
Provisional interview date of Thursday 17th September
Main duties of the job
- The post holder will support the division in leading and managing the performance of Clinical Genetics in the delivery of planned service capacity through the effective use of resources.
- To manage performance against local and national qualitative and quantitative service targets and within the Trust's financial allocations.
- To lead and manage the assessment of comple
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