Service Manager - Children's Mental Health & Eating Disorders
Are you looking for a new senior management role within healthcare? Do you have significant experience managing budgets and operational teams?
We are looking for a skilled and motivated Service Manager to provide operational leadership across Buckinghamshire CAMHS and Eating Disorder services. In this role, you will work alongside clinical leaders and multidisciplinary teams to ensure children and young people receive high-quality, safe and effective care.
You will lead the operational delivery of a portfolio of services, ensuring strong performance across quality, workforce, finance and governance. This includes supporting teams made up of nursing, psychological and allied health professionals while ensuring services meet national standards, regulatory expectations and Trust priorities.
Working within a collaborative leadership structure, you will partner with colleagues across the Directorate and wider Trust to improve patient pathways, support service transformation and ensure services respond to the needs of children, young people and families across Buckinghamshire.
You will also contribute to strategic planning and work closely with stakeholders across the health and care system to support the continued development and improvement of local services.
Please note the interview date for this role has been set for the 30th April.
Required Information
- You will lead a portfolio of clinical teams across Buckinghamshire CAMHS and Eating Disorder services, ensuring a high-quality, safe and effective offer for children and young people. You will take responsibility for the operational management, finance and performance of these teams.
- You will provide visible operational leadership, working closely with clinical leaders and multidisciplinary teams to support workforce development, staff wellbeing and a culture of continuous improvement.
- You will monitor and drive service performance across quality, activity and key performance indicators, ensuring services meet regulatory requirements, national standards and Trust priorities.
- You will contribute to the strategic planning of the service and the wider Mental Health Directorate, playing an important role in delivering change, transformation and service improvement goals.
- You will work collaboratively with colleagues across the Trust and system partners to improve patient pathways, strengthen partnerships and support the ongoing development of services across Buckinghamshire.
About Us
Oxford Health is a great place to work, and the Bucks CAMHs & ED service is known as supportive, diverse and innovative. The senior management team values compassion, curiosity, and collaboration. We aim to be open, honest, inclusive, kind, and trusted to deliver on our promise.
As a Trust, we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible.
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and trust-wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
For further details / informal visits, contact:
Name: Andy Fitton
Job title: Head of Service
Email address: andy.fitton1@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07747 268120
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
