Rotherham Care Group Adult Mental Health Service Manager

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Rotherham Care Group Adult Mental Health Service Manager

The closing date is 05 August 2026

We are looking for an experienced and compassionate Adult Mental Health Service Manager to lead and support high-quality services for adults with mental health needs. This is an exciting opportunity to join a dedicated NHS team within Rotherham Care Group, working collaboratively with clinical, operational and partner organisations to deliver safe, effective and person‑centred care. You will provide visible leadership, support service development and improvement, manage performance and quality, and ensure staff are empowered to deliver excellent outcomes for service users and carers.

The Service Manager is responsible for ensuring the day‑to‑day delivery of designated clinical services and ensuring that those teams are performing in terms of patient outcomes, metrics, measures and targets.

The Service Manager is also accountable for making sure that the Trust's strategy is executed locally and that standards of safety are maintained at all times.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high‑quality patient care that is consistent with the values of the organisation.

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employs around 4,000 talented colleagues who are highly valued and respected.

We have a wide portfolio including mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.

We are dedicated to the development of our people and hold a learning half day every month for our colleagues.

We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first‑class care while remaining committed to our vision and values.

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Post‑qualification specialist training in relevant subject

• Experience as a manager in a care setting
• Experience of leading a team
• Experience of financial and substantial change management
• Recent demonstrable success in influencing and contributing to successful service redesign
• Experience of developing effective team working with multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience of exercising effective, results orientated leadership
• Demonstrable evidence of sound financial planning and HR management

• Understand the background and A/I aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications for RDaSH
• Appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and Social Care, the ICB and individual providers and commissioning organisations
• Developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations
• Ability to communicate with clinical, academic and all levels of staff effectively
• Appreciation of the specific communication and leadership challenges for statutory providers in working with the voluntary sector and other community leaders
• Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement

• Analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner
• Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate conclusions
• Demonstrates sound judgement decision making, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate
• Developed ability to influence others
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of leadership
• Commitment to self‑directed learning and development
• Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills
• Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
• Determination, perseverance and personal resilience
• Flexibility and the ability to handle a rapidly changing and ambiguous environment
• Access to transport and the ability to travel within the required geographical area
• Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
• Developed critical thinking skills
• Well‑developed ability to draft and write persuasively for a range of audiences, both internal and external
• Understanding of community‑based asset development and working in collaboration with non‑statutory partners
• Understanding of NHS financial approaches, risk and contracting

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.