Operational Support Manager
The closing date is 30 November 2025
Job summary
Open only to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system, which is limited to: Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare FT, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton FT, South Central Ambulance Service or Hampshire Hospitals FT.
Are you a highly organised leader with a passion for making a real difference in the lives of children and their families? Do you thrive in dynamic environments and love bringing out the best in a team? If so, we'd love to hear from you.
We're looking for an Operational Support Team Manager to lead our dedicated admin teams across the Mental Health sub-division in Hampshire, including Serenity Path, Blake Day Services in Winchester and Bluebird and Austen House at Tatchbury Mount. You'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth day-to-day running of our children's mental health services by providing high quality and effective administrative support, working closely with clinical leadership teams and championing service excellence.
The successful candidate must be experienced in team management, preferably in a health or social care setting, confident working across multiple sites with excellent communication skills and passionate about supporting services that change children's lives for the better.
Main duties of the job
To provide effective management and leadership to the business support function of the Children and Families Division ensuring efficient and effective business and clinical administrative support is in place across the aligned portfolio. There will be responsibility for overall line management and performance of business support staff.
To ensure all administrative requirements, developments and day to day operations within business support are implemented, building and maintaining strong relationships across the service line with both business support and clinical staff.
The role is vital in ensuring governance procedures are followed across the aligned portfolio, including the investigations of business support related breaches and incidents.
Engender a learning and supportive environment where best practice is shared across the service line and adopted as standard operating practice. Promote a culture of continuous improvement and share this knowledge across the service line to improve efficiencies, increase patient care and drive down costs.
To line manage the Admin Supervisors & clerical staff.
Support Supervisors with HR issues, rotas and ensuring adequate cover across all sites.
Responsible for dealing with administration staff recruitment, induction, sickness absence, disciplinary, grievance, conduct. This will also involve ensuring mandatory training is up to date.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Details
Date posted
17 November 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£38,682 to £46,580 a year Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
348-CFS-9732
Job locations
Tatchbury Mount
Calmore
Southampton
Hampshire
SO40 2RZ
Employer details
Employer name
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Tatchbury Mount
Calmore
Southampton
Hampshire
SO40 2RZ
Employer's website
https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)








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