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Job summary

Main area
Management
Grade
Band 8b
Contract
Permanent: None
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
267-BM7823743
Employer
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Sue Nicholls
Town
Aylesbury
Salary
£64,455 - £74,896 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
19/03/2026 23:59

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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust logo

Service Manager - Children's Mental Health & Eating Disorders

Band 8b

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.

We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Good luck and we hope to hear from you.


 

Job overview

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.

Main duties of the job

  • 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.

Working for our organisation

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 you will be joining are to be compassionate, curious and collaborative. We aim to open and honest, inclusive, kind and trusted to do what we 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”

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. 

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

The ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust is essential for this role. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to Master’s degree level or equivalent professional experience

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Substantial experience managing health and social care staff. To include experience of how to maximise peoples skills
  • Substantial experience of directly leading substantial change.
  • Substantial experience of directly leading substantial change.

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Good level of knowledge of Business Intelligence and how & when it should be used in everyday service delivery and transformation

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStep into healthNHS 75th BirthdayDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

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
Andy Fitton
Job title
Head of Service
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07747 268120
Additional information

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. 

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