Service Manager - Children's Mental Health & Eating Disorders

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.

• 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.
• Take responsibility for the operational management, finance and performance of these teams.
• Provide visible operational leadership, working closely with clinical leaders and multidisciplinary teams to support workforce development, staff wellbeing and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Monitor and drive service performance across quality, activity and key performance indicators, ensuring services meet regulatory requirements, national standards and Trust priorities.
• 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.
• 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.

Essential criteria: ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust; excellent communication and leadership skills; experience in managing budgets and operational teams; and a commitment to safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults.

All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale. Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.

We are advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and we always look to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to fulfil the role and recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values - safe, caring and excellent.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary Care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing.

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