Head of Service

Salary:NHS Band 8a (including NHS pension scheme)Closing date:4th January 2026

Interview date:13th January 2026

Solutions 4 Health are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a Head of Sexual Health to lead our high-performing, forward-thinking service in Doncaster. This is a pivotal role providing strategic, operational and clinical leadership, shaping the future of sexual health provision for the communities we serve.

About the Role

As Head of Service, you will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and inclusive care across our multidisciplinary team. You’ll lead on service transformation, champion quality improvement, and work in close collaboration with commissioners, local authorities and community partners.

This is a role for someone who can balance compassionate leadership with robust operational oversight a leader who motivates teams, embraces innovation and is driven to make a real impact on population health outcomes.

Lead the operational delivery of the sexual health service, ensuring model compliance, efficient workflow, and achievement of KPIs and quality metrics.

Translate strategic objectives into robust annual service plans and measurable outcomes.

Use data and intelligence to drive improvement, reduce inequalities and enhance access.

Manage service risk proactively, ensuring issues are identified early and addressed.

As the Head of Service, work with the Lead Nurse and Medical Lead for the service, ensuring clinical standards, policies and pathways reflect best practice and national guidance.

Ensure robust systems exist for audit, incident reporting, risk management, safeguarding, infection prevention and control, and learning reviews.

Oversee service-wide quality improvement, embedding a culture of learning and excellence.

Provide compassionate, inspiring leadership to multidisciplinary staff including nurses, HCAs, clinical support workers, administrators, Psychosexual Therapists and HIV Team.

Lead safe staffing models, recruitment, workforce planning and succession management.

Ensure high-quality supervision, appraisals, mandatory training compliance, mentorship and preceptorship programmes.

Lead service transformation programmes, digital innovation and pathway redesign, including new contract developing and monitoring.

Build strong relationships with commissioners, local authorities, voluntary sector partners and community organisations.

Co-produce service improvements with people who use the service.

Manage the service budget, ensuring financial sustainability and value for money.

Monitor contract performance and prepare reporting for internal and external stakeholders.

Ensure effective procurement, stock control and resource allocation.

Act as a support to the Safeguarding Lead who will provide expertise and oversight for adult and child safeguarding concerns, ensuring compliance with statutory responsibilities and local safeguarding processes.

Solutions4

Health are an innovative company with a passion and a track record for tackling health inequalities. We provide a one stop solution for commissioners accountable for outcome focused integrated Public Health services.

Successful applicants will be required to undergo a DBS check at the appropriate level.

Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK, as we do not sponsor work permits and outside work permits are not accepted as proof of a right to work in the UK.

We encourage applicants meeting the criteria for the role regardless of age, disability, gender, orientation, race, religion, or ethnicity.

Solutions4health are a disability confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments, either at application or interview stage, please contact our HR team.

Head of Sexual Health

Location: Doncaster

Contract: Full time, 37.5 hours

Salary: NHS Band 8a (including NHS pension scheme) Closing date: 4th January 2026

Interview date: 13th January 2026

Are you an inspiring clinical leader with a passion for improving sexual health and reducing inequalities? Do you thrive in fast-paced, person-centred services where innovation, compassion and partnership working are at the…