Non Clinical - Centre Manager - Trauma and Specialist Surgery Centre

  • Department SAC Management Team
  • Salary £66,582.00 – £77,368 per annum
  • Closing Date 24/07/2026
  • Location The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital
  • Grade NHS AfC: Band 8b
  • Job ref 223-CMS-573
  • Pension NHS Pension
  • Holidays Generous Holiday Allowance
  • NHS discount Eligible for NHS Discounts
  • Contract Fixed term for 15 months to cover maternity leave or secondment for internal candidates
  • Hours 37.5 hours per week

Job overview

Are you an experienced operational leader looking for your next challenge?

We have an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and forward-thinking Centre Manager to join our Trauma & Specialist Surgery Centre on a 12-month fixed-term maternity cover.

Working as part of an experienced triumvirate, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across a diverse portfolio of services, driving operational performance, service transformation and continuous improvement. You'll work closely with Clinical Directors, Matrons and multidisciplinary teams to deliver safe, high-quality, patient-centred care while achieving key national and local performance standards.

We're looking for an inspiring leader with significant NHS operational management experience, a proven track record of delivering change, and the ability to build strong relationships, influence at senior levels and lead high-performing teams.

This is an excellent opportunity to broaden your senior leadership experience, influence strategic decision-making and make a lasting impact within one of the Trust's largest and most dynamic clinical centres.

If you're passionate about improving services, empowering people and delivering outstanding care, we'd love to hear from you. Please use your supporting statement to demonstrate how your experience, achievements and leadership style meet the requirements of the role.

Main duties of the job

The Centre Manager provides strategic and operational leadership for the Trauma & Specialist Surgery Centre, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, high-quality and financially sustainable services. Working as part of the Centre triumvirate, the postholder is accountable for operational performance, workforce, finance, governance and service transformation, ensuring delivery of Trust and national performance standards while continuously improving patient outcomes and experience. The role provides visible leadership across the Centre, influences strategic decision-making and works collaboratively across the Trust and wider NHS system to deliver modern, patient-centred services.

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Our Poppy’s Promise Commitment

We believe that compassionate care sits at the heart of everything we do. Every member of our team —  clinical or non-clinical — plays a vital role in ensuring that patients, families, and colleagues are treated with dignity, empathy, and respect at all times.

We expect all staff to demonstrate compassion not only through their words, but through their actions: by listening attentively, communicating clearly and kindly, and recognising  individual needs, feelings, and circumstances of those in our care.

Effective communication is central to safe and high-quality healthcare. We value colleagues who take the time to understand others, explain information in a  meaningful way, and respond to concerns with patience and understanding.

By joining our team, you are committing to uphold these values — ensuring that every patient feels heard, respected, and valued, and that compassion is embedded in every interaction, every day.

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The well-being of our staff is of the upmost importance to us.  If you are offered a role at our Trust, and fall into the increased and higher risk categories as set out by Public Health England (PHE) and NHSI/E, your line manager will complete an risk assessment with you.  This will be completed in conjunction with the latest guidance from Public Health England in relation to Covid-19.

By submitting your application to Trac, you are giving your consent for parts of your application data to be transferred to the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and other secure, internal NHS Workforce systems. This is to support and manage your recruitment and employment within your employing organisation. 

If successful, by completing the NHS Jobs application form you authorise the Trust to obtain any previous NHS service details including all electronically held sickness information, via the Inter Authority Transfer process on the national ESR.

If the role requires a qualification/professional registration, you will need to provide proof during the recruitment process. By submitting your application you are giving the Trust permission to check the qualification certificates provided back to the source provider. Please note that a sample of all applicant’s qualifications will be checked with the educational institution or provider.

In the event of a high response to this advertisement, this post will be closed. Early applications are advised.
 
Unfortunately we do not accept CVs or keep them on file. If you are unable to apply online please contact the person named in the advertisement for the post you are interested in.
 
We are committed to offering an interview to all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the above position and will support reasonable adjustments wherever possible.  In addition, whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from candidates who are male, from black and minority ethnic backgrounds or who have a disability, as these are currently under-represented in our workforce.
 
We are committed to equal opportunities in employment. The policies and practices of the Trust aim to promote an environment that is free from all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the diversity of all people. At the heart of our policy, we seek to treat people fairly, flexibly and with dignity and respect.

Thank you for your interest in The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, we look forward to receiving your application for employment.

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