Build a rewarding career in healthcare leadership with a respected NHS organisation. Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a motivated and ambitious Management Trainee in London to join its dynamic team and contribute to delivering high-quality patient care and operational excellence.
This opportunity is ideal for individuals looking to develop a long-term career within the NHS. Applicants should hold at least Level 2 qualifications in Mathematics and English, along with previous experience demonstrating a proven ability to meet targets and deliver results in a professional setting.
A strong passion for the NHS and its mission is essential, alongside a genuine commitment to improving healthcare services. The role requires enthusiasm for leadership, with the ability to motivate, inspire, and develop teams in a fast-paced environment. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are crucial, as well as the ability to engage stakeholders and influence outcomes through inclusive leadership.
This Management Trainee position offers valuable hands-on experience, structured development, and career progression within one of the UK’s leading healthcare trusts. If you are driven, organised, and eager to make a meaningful impact, this is an excellent opportunity to grow your career in healthcare management.
Position: Management Trainee
Job Type: Full-Time
Salary: £39,127 to £41,922 a year pa inc HCA
Location: London
Job summary
Our scheme gives you practical experience of general management and other leadership roles in the NHS. General management roles vary across organisations, however the majority will include people management, resource and budget management, working closely with clinical colleagues and consulting patients and the public on improving services.
We aim to equip you with the skills and the confidence to be able to make a real difference to our healthcare services – with the fundamental aim of improving patient care. The scheme is designed to give you a range of experience so that you can learn, develop and move into more senior posts following completion.
There will be an information session on Monday 30 March from 14:00-15:00 where you can speak to current and past trainees, as well as Senior Operational colleagues who help support the scheme. The link to this information session is here: Join:
https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/35029441231665?p=7pbmYPxYet3SPsVUSy
We are also reviewing the formal and informal education offers, which will be shared with applicants as soon as this is confirmed.
Please note, all information is included in the candidate pack.
If you are successful following application, you will be invited to a face to face Assessment Centre on 27 April or 1 May. Face to face interviews will occur week commencing 18 and 25 May. The start date of the scheme is September 2026.
Main duties of the job
As a management trainee, you will undertake two distinct placements over two years – one will be an operational role ensuring services are managed and delivered in the best possible way for our patients, and the other will be a placement focusing on quality and service improvements, or longer-term plans and projects. This means you will gain exposure across the Trust equipping you with the knowledge and experience to progress your career post-scheme.
As well as stretch projects and unlimited senior management engagement, you will be exposed to a wide range of work, touching on all elements of general management. This will encompass practical experience in:
Organisational strategy
Change management
Project management
Financial management
HR management
Each placement will provide different challenges and varied stakeholders. Everything you do will have a focus on delivering the best, high quality care for our patients.
This is a two-year training programme, which is aimed to grow and develop the NHS managers and leaders of the future. As well as developing your work-based skills, an essential component of the programme includes an opportunity for informal and formal educational offers. With hard work and commitment at the end of the scheme you will have gained the knowledge and skills and a professional qualification which will enable you to be able to apply for more senior level roles with greater complexity, with an earning potential of around £51,000.
About us
With over 23,500 staff working across 5 of the UK’s best known hospitals as well as providing services in the community, we have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement, bringing together world class clinical services, teaching and research. We also have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres.
Our values drive everything that we do, developed in close collaboration with staff to provide our patients with exceptional care every day.
Caring
Ambitious
Inclusive
Our strategy is central to achieving our vision which is to advance health and wellbeing as a local, national and international leader in clinical care, education and research. Our three strategic priorities are:
Patients
People
Partnerships
Guy’s and St Thomas’ has a number of sites on in the acute and community setting where placements may be arranged.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is firmly committed to meeting the aim of the NHS constitution and providing an equally welcoming to people of all backgrounds, cultures, nationalities and religions. Equality, Diversity & Inclusion is front and centre of the Management Training Scheme.
Job responsibilities
Here is a sample of duties that our Management Trainees perform. Please note this is not an exhaustive list as every day and department is different:
- Ensuring best-in-class patient care by overseeing smooth operations within the department, by liaising closely with clinical and administrative staff, as well as the Works and IT department
- Delegated budget responsibility
- Drafting communication plans
- Contributing to Improvement projects to facilitate better patient care or more effective use of resource
- Line managing and motivating admin & clerical staff for the department and performing personal development reviews so everyone can realise their potential at the Trust
- Board/committee meetings management (drafting papers, creating agendas and updating actions)
- Conducting/facilitating daily situation report meetings regarding the previous days performance
- Leading on the complaints handling procedure of the department. This includes dealing with the Patient Advice and Liaison Service, formal written complaints, and clinical negligence claims
- Daily reporting of performance figures, weekly reporting of admissions figures and monthly reporting of the departments prescribing history of particularly expensive medications
- Monthly analysis of complaints, compliments and Friends & Family test trends in the form of a Quality, safety and Risk analysis report, to be presented at monthly Clinical Governance meetings
- Facilitating the weekly departmental performance meeting, when the service manager is on leave
- Escalating operational issues to different areas of the hospital. This can include liaising with the service managers of other wards, the site nurse practitioners and clinicians alike
- Undertaking various HR processes, such as terminating, extending or making changing to doctors contracts, and organising placements for clinical attachments
- Service improvement projects e.g. improvements to clinic space, patient information and patient experience feedback, GSTT website pages
- Collating data on a monthly basis and liaising with Finance, clinical lead and other medical staff to identify trends and patterns in clinical behaviour and ways to target these for potential cost savings
- Cross cover Deputy Service Manager
Person Specification
Education and /or Experience
Essential
- Educated to Level 2 Mathematics and English
Previous experience
Essential
- Track record of delivery against targets/objectives
- Skills/knowledge/ability
- Essential
- Passion and commitment to the NHS and a desire to further its aims
- Enthusiasm to lead, motivate, inspire and develop teams
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Inclusive leadership and influencing skills
- Knowledge of and commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
- Commitment to ongoing personal and professional development
- A commitment to improving patient services
Application Process
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Application Deadline
April 6th, 2026