Service Manager Respiratory Medicine
Job summary
Barts Health NHS Trust & its Respiratory services invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity to join the management team. The role is based at St Bartholomew's Hospital but manages the Respiratory Service at the Royal London, Mile End and St Bartholomew's. St Bartholomew's Hospital houses the Specialist Respiratory Medicine service including the NHSE specially commissioned services for CF, Home Ventilation & Difficult Asthma.
There are 22 inpatient beds across two wards including 10 negative pressure rooms. There is an integrated respiratory function unit, a Respiratory day case unit, bronchoscopy suite & an Asthma & Allergy day case unit. There is also a specialist Respiratory Intensive Care Unit which includes an ECMO service. There is close collaboration with Cardiothoracic surgery and the Barts Heart & Cancer Centres.
The outpatient department runs more than a dozen separate Respiratory clinics including Severe Asthma, CF, Bronchiectasis, Sleep & Ventilation, Allergy, Lung Cancer, Cough & Breathlessness, Interstitial Lung disease and COPD. Interview date is 30/11/2026
Main duties of the job
The applicant responding to this advert will be responsible for ensuring that Respiratory is run efficiently and effectively. The postholder will be responsible for a large administrative team across the 3 sites and will take the lead on specific modernisation projects and will also be operationally responsible for directly reporting staff and their performance. The service manager is responsible for all aspects of Respiratory.
Key aims 1 Provide timely, efficient, and effective operational service management support for relevant services within Respiratory assisting the Clinical Director, Lead Clinicians and General Manager to ensure that these services are responsive, innovative and provided to the highest possible clinical and performance standards. 2 Lead on ensuring that all performance/quality targets are met. 3 Problem solve as appropriate, and develop and implement lasting solutions in conjunction with clinical colleagues. 4 To be a key member of the Senior Management Team, taking full responsibility for actions and for keeping other team members fully informed.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers. Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond.
That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
Person Specification
Experience · Essential
Recognised management qualification, CPD evidence, operational management experience, and leading change
Desirable
Degree (completed or working towards), large team management
Skills · Essential
Data analysis and reporting/presentation, managing competing priorities and pressure, effectively leading meetings, task groups, problem solving
Desirable
Clinical governance expertise, writing and presenting business cases/ case for change, advanced MS office skills
Knowledge · Essential
Ability to understand and solve complex problems, how to evaluate and improve service quality, leadership theory
Qualifications · Essential
Recognised management qualification
Desirable
Degree (completed or working towards)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) . From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
