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Job summary

Main area
Nursing & AHP
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Job ref
270-TG417-ACS
Employer
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Newland House
Town
Northampton
Salary
£55,690 - £62,682 Per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
24/10/2025 08:00

Employer heading

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Service Manager

Band 8a

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the NHFT Children’s Pathway as a Service Manager. This role will oversee the Children and Young People's (CYP) Community Eating Disorder Service (CEDS), Paediatric Psychology and additional CYP mental health services (to be confirmed). If you are passionate about service improvement and want to be part of a committed senior leadership team focused on delivering high-quality care, this role is ideal for you.

Main duties of the job

• Provide operational leadership for the CYP CEDS, Paediatric Psychology and other designated mental health services.

• Ensure safe, effective, and efficient delivery of evidence based and informed treatment and support for children and young people accessing these services.

• Lead on performance, business management, and service development within your areas of responsibility.

• Work with the Head of Service for Children’s Mental Health, in close collaboration with Senior Clinical Colleagues, the Clinical Director, and the Assistant Director.

• Hold budgetary and operational responsibility for all services in your area

• Proven experience in operational management within mental health or children’s    services.

• Strong leadership and team collaboration skills.

• Ability to manage budgets and drive service improvements.

• Commitment to delivering high-quality, evidence-based care.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria
  • Professional Registration
  • Evidence of further management training or equivalent experience

Essential

Essential criteria
  • Full UK driving liscence

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of experience at band 7 team lead or equivalent role
  • Evidence of management and leadership experience
  • Understanding of the NHS
  • Experience of working with CYP mental Health

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyWorkplace Wellbeing Charter LogoArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStep into health

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Rachel Hickling
Job title
Head of Service
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Loveness Nyagumbo, Assistant Director.

[email protected]

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