Oxford Health NHS Trust

Service Manager - Children's Mental Health & Eating Disorders

The closing date is 19 March 2026

Job summary

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 motivatedService 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.

About us

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:

o Excellent opportunities for career progressiono Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and developmento 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous serviceo NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailerso Competitive pension schemeo Lease car schemeo Cycle to work schemeo Employee Assistance Programmeo Mental Health First Aiderso Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)o Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Date posted

09 March 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£64,455 to £74,896 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

267-BM7823743

Job locations

Sue Nicholls

Bierton Road

Aylesbury

HP20 1EG

Job description

Job 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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to Master's degree level or equivalent professional experience

Experience

Essential

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

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to Master's degree level or equivalent professional experience

Experience

Essential

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

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

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.