Lead Manager Childrens Community Health Services

Job summary

Children's Community Health Services

Lead Manager Post, 8B, 12 months fixed term post

We are Manchester Local Care Organisation (MLCO) - an exciting, new public sector organisation bringing together NHS community health services and adult social care services in Manchester. We're driven by the aim of improving the health of local people in Manchester by working across organisational boundaries.The Lead Manager role is a key strategic and operational leadership role within the Service. The Lead Manager will provide leadership, operational management and strategic direction to their services. The service specific strategies will contribute to and inform the Children's Community Health Services (CCHS) and LCO strategy This post will be responsible for Manchester Health Visiting Service and Child Health Administration Service.

The Lead Manager will ensure the supportive and responsive day-to-day operational management of their services. They will provide visible leadership to all staff within the operations teams and create a supportive organisational culture in which team members feel empowered and committed to deliver focused, modern, effective and efficient services.

Main duties of the job

The Lead Manager will play a key role in ensuring CCHS delivers on agreed performance indicators in relation to outcomes, efficiency, national and local targets. The post holder will develop and implement operational plans that achieve corporate objectives and key performance targets.

There will be an emphasis on the need to develop a culture to support the provision of excellent clinical services, underpinned by structured performance management and delivery as a foundation for excellent organisational performance. The Lead Manager will oversee the delivery of work across their services, ensuring a robust and effective performance monitoring framework is in place with particular focus on delivery of key access targets, activity and capacity planning and quality improvement plans. With an understanding of the challenges and issues facing those working to deliver services, the post holders will undertake this role using emotional intelligence.

The Lead Manager will interface with partnership agencies to continue to improve the coordination of pathways and transformation over time.

Anyone interested in this opportunity should contact Nicola Marsden Tel: 0161 537 0418 or via nicola.marsden@mft.nhs.uk

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.