Taurus Healthcare Limited

Senior Service Manager

The closing date is 21 September 2025

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join our operational management team working across our clinical and prevention services.

You will be supporting priorities within Herefordshire Health & Wellbeing Strategy and Health Inequality Strategy to bring together a range of clinical & prevention services to provide approaches tailored to meet the needs of different populations and providing an integrated approach to prevention. The role will work closely across neighbourhood teams ensuring that we are engaging with communities to understand how to direct clinical & prevention services to tackle health inequalities to best address that barriers faced by our underserved communities and maximise impact and outcomes for patients.

Prevention is a priority within the NHS 10 Year Plan. Talk Wellbeing is aligned with these priorities, bringing together several prevention services including NHS Health Checks, outreach cardiovascular disease checks, workplace health checks, WorkWell and infectious disease service. As Senior Operations Manager, you will be responsible for the operational management and development of these services and leading the way with prevention services for Herefordshire.

This role would suit someone with previous experience of operational management, understanding of health inequalities and working with communities.

*Interviews are expected to take place on Tuesday 30th September 2025*

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will support the operational delivery and development of a range of clinical and prevention services, with a particular focus on our prevention services. The post holder will be required to:

Use population health management to target resources to ensure greatest impact for patients and inform priorities, decision making and transformation

Understand health inequalities and working with communities to understand barriers, targeting services to address these

Line management of workforce, including service coordinators, operations administrators, health coaches, social prescribers and provide operational management of clinical staff

Budget management responsibilities

Service development

Collaborative and integrated working across PCNs and VCSE organisations

About us

Taurus Healthcare was established in 2012, as the provider arm of the GP Federation serving 204,000 patients in Herefordshire. Founded and owned by the partners of the entire Herefordshire Primary Care community, Taurus is focused on providing excellent out of hospital services for patients. Our ethos is to provide high quality and cost-effective health outcomes that are delivered as close as possible to the patients home, whilst ensuring that patients who do require in hospital services are seen as quickly and effectively as possible.

At Taurus Healthcare we strive to create a diverse, inclusive workplace, and welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds including those from Military Veterans and family members of serving personnel.

Taurus Healthcare offer many employee benefits, such as:

Access to a generous NHS pension scheme with 20.68% employer contribution.

33 to 38 days annual leave entitlement, including bank holidays, depending on service -pro rata for part-time staff.

Access to an extensive Employee Benefits Programme -Vivup- offering:

o 24/7 access to counselling services

o Salary sacrifice scheme for cars and bikes

o Access to a wide range of discounts from national retailers

Access to the Blue Light extensive discount scheme.

Details

Date posted

04 September 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£44,366.84 to £48,695.31 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

S0001-25-0066

Job locations

Taurus Healthcare Ltd

Whitecross Road

Hereford

HR4 0DG


Job description

Job responsibilities

A Senior Operations Manager will have responsibility for the development of clinical & prevention services, working closely with the Associate Medical Director, Associate Director for clinical services, Associate PCN Director for Prevention, Partnerships & Transformation, and other senior management to evolve existing services and model new services.

You will be supporting priorities within Herefordshire Health & Wellbeing Strategy and Health Inequality Strategy to bring together a range of prevention services to provide approaches tailored to meet the needs of different populations and providing an integrated approach to prevention. The role will work closely across neighbourhood teams ensuring that we are engaging with communities to understand how to direct clinical & prevention services to tackle health inequalities to best address that barriers faced by our underserved communities and maximise impact and outcomes for patients.

Main Responsibilities:

  • Using population health management to target resources to ensure greatest impact for patients and inform priorities, decision making and transformation
  • To represent the services in cross-organisational meetings when agreed e.g. partner meetings with HGP, the ICB and other H&W wide meetings.
  • Ensure the service compliance with the GDPR and FOI along with other relevant legislation and professional information management standards such as GMC/BMA and LMC guidance
  • Ensuring that there are robust procedures and staff allocated for safe service delivery.
  • To be responsible for the production of performance and quality reports, including reporting data sets to national and local systems
  • Managing the budget for clinical & prevention services in detail, ensuring that financial targets are met and to escalate concerns to the Associate Director of Clinical Services and Associate PCN Director for Prevention, Partnerships & Transformation.
  • Represent the organisation and Herefordshire PCNs at key system meetings with and on behalf of the Associate Director of Clinical Services and Associate PCN Director for Prevention, Partnerships & transformation to enable the post holder to contribute to the strategic direction of services and lead implementation and operationalisation of service development.
  • Line management of workforce non-clinical staff in your team, including Service Coordinators, Clinical Systems Dispatchers, Drivers / Patient Support, Operations Administrators, Reception Staff, Health Coaches, Social Prescibers and operational management of the clinical staff.
  • Development of KPIs and monitoring key KPIs within month to ensure objectives are on track and to be the first point of contact for operations managers to adjust as needed, escalating to the Associate Director of Clinical Services where appropriate and ensure governance is in place.
  • Attending contractual meetings as required to represent clinical services

The post holder will work with the operational managers to ensure

Delivery of safe services across clinical and prevention services, assisting to influence and facilitate change when needed.

*A full Job Description & Person Specification is attached to this advert*

*We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible*

Job description

Job responsibilities

A Senior Operations Manager will have responsibility for the development of clinical & prevention services, working closely with the Associate Medical Director, Associate Director for clinical services, Associate PCN Director for Prevention, Partnerships & Transformation, and other senior management to evolve existing services and model new services.

You will be supporting priorities within Herefordshire Health & Wellbeing Strategy and Health Inequality Strategy to bring together a range of prevention services to provide approaches tailored to meet the needs of different populations and providing an integrated approach to prevention. The role will work closely across neighbourhood teams ensuring that we are engaging with communities to understand how to direct clinical & prevention services to tackle health inequalities to best address that barriers faced by our underserved communities and maximise impact and outcomes for patients.

Main Responsibilities:

  • Using population health management to target resources to ensure greatest impact for patients and inform priorities, decision making and transformation
  • To represent the services in cross-organisational meetings when agreed e.g. partner meetings with HGP, the ICB and other H&W wide meetings.
  • Ensure the service compliance with the GDPR and FOI along with other relevant legislation and professional information management standards such as GMC/BMA and LMC guidance
  • Ensuring that there are robust procedures and staff allocated for safe service delivery.
  • To be responsible for the production of performance and quality reports, including reporting data sets to national and local systems
  • Managing the budget for clinical & prevention services in detail, ensuring that financial targets are met and to escalate concerns to the Associate Director of Clinical Services and Associate PCN Director for Prevention, Partnerships & Transformation.
  • Represent the organisation and Herefordshire PCNs at key system meetings with and on behalf of the Associate Director of Clinical Services and Associate PCN Director for Prevention, Partnerships & transformation to enable the post holder to contribute to the strategic direction of services and lead implementation and operationalisation of service development.
  • Line management of workforce non-clinical staff in your team, including Service Coordinators, Clinical Systems Dispatchers, Drivers / Patient Support, Operations Administrators, Reception Staff, Health Coaches, Social Prescibers and operational management of the clinical staff.
  • Development of KPIs and monitoring key KPIs within month to ensure objectives are on track and to be the first point of contact for operations managers to adjust as needed, escalating to the Associate Director of Clinical Services where appropriate and ensure governance is in place.
  • Attending contractual meetings as required to represent clinical services

The post holder will work with the operational managers to ensure

Delivery of safe services across clinical and prevention services, assisting to influence and facilitate change when needed.

*A full Job Description & Person Specification is attached to this advert*

*We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible*

Person Specification

Skills

Essential

  • Effective skills in communicating complex and sensitive information and in difficult situations, requiring empathy, reassurance, persuasion and influence.
  • Practical skills and knowledge of cold chain procedures and medicines management.
  • Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks.
  • Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt and evaluate issues, and recommend and appropriate course of action to address the issues.
  • Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
  • Ability to make decisions on difficult issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
  • Ability to engender trust and confidence and demonstrate integrity in the provision of advice and support.
  • Able to work under limited supervision using own initiative, organising and prioritising own and others workloads to changing and often tight deadlines.

Qualifications

Desirable

  • Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
  • Further training or experience in a managerial position.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in Primary Care.
  • Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
  • Working knowledge and literate with computer skills to use of Word and Excel, internet access and email correspondence and electronic record keeping.
  • Evidence of continuous personal and professional development and willingness to commit to ongoing CPD.

Desirable

  • Previous experience in similar role in public sector.
  • Previous experience in the organisation of immunisation and vaccination clinics.
  • Knowledge of immunisation schedules in accordance with national recommendations.
Person Specification

Skills

Essential

  • Effective skills in communicating complex and sensitive information and in difficult situations, requiring empathy, reassurance, persuasion and influence.
  • Practical skills and knowledge of cold chain procedures and medicines management.
  • Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks.
  • Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt and evaluate issues, and recommend and appropriate course of action to address the issues.
  • Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
  • Ability to make decisions on difficult issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
  • Ability to engender trust and confidence and demonstrate integrity in the provision of advice and support.
  • Able to work under limited supervision using own initiative, organising and prioritising own and others workloads to changing and often tight deadlines.

Qualifications

Desirable

  • Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
  • Further training or experience in a managerial position.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in Primary Care.
  • Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
  • Working knowledge and literate with computer skills to use of Word and Excel, internet access and email correspondence and electronic record keeping.
  • Evidence of continuous personal and professional development and willingness to commit to ongoing CPD.

Desirable

  • Previous experience in similar role in public sector.
  • Previous experience in the organisation of immunisation and vaccination clinics.
  • Knowledge of immunisation schedules in accordance with national recommendations.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Taurus Healthcare Limited

Address

Taurus Healthcare Ltd

Whitecross Road

Hereford

HR4 0DG


Employer's website

https://www.herefordshiregeneralpractice.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Taurus Healthcare Limited

Address

Taurus Healthcare Ltd

Whitecross Road

Hereford

HR4 0DG


Employer's website

https://www.herefordshiregeneralpractice.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

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Details

Date posted

04 September 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£44,366.84 to £48,695.31 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

S0001-25-0066

Job locations

Taurus Healthcare Ltd

Whitecross Road

Hereford

HR4 0DG


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