Job Title: Clinical Services Manager
Agency: Central London Community Health Trust
Location: London, United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: 72,719 to 83,505 £ / Year

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Job summary

Brent Children’s Clinical Service Unit (CSU) is seeking an experienced and motivated Clinical Services Manager to provide operational leadership for our 0-19 Universal Children’s Services portfolio.

Reporting to the Head of Clinical Services, you will lead high-quality, patient-centred services, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective care and achievement of contractual, quality and performance targets. You will provide strategic and operational leadership, driving service improvement, workforce development, quality improvement and transformation that respond to the evolving needs of children, young people and families.

You will be supporting the NHS shift towards neighbourhood working and will work with health, local authority and voluntary sector partners to develop integrated services, strengthen multi-agency collaboration and improve outcomes for children and young people.

The portfolio includes Health Visiting, School Nursing, Healthy Weight and Infant Feeding services.

The successful candidate will be an experienced leader with strong operational management skills, a track record of delivering performance targets, leading teams and managing change. You will be confident using data to drive improvement, managing HR issues, managing resources effectively and building strong partnerships.

Supported by an experienced senior leadership team, this is an excellent opportunity to further develop your leadership skills and shape the future of children’s services in Brent.

Main duties of the job

1. Lead the operational management and development of services within the portfolio, ensuring high-quality, patient-centred, responsive and cost-effective care that meets contractual, quality and performance requirements.
2. Lead service, pathway and transformation development with ICBs, local authorities, NHS providers and voluntary sector partners to improve outcomes, maximise resources and embed best practice.
3. Provide visible, compassionate leadership, fostering a positive culture that promotes staff wellbeing, inclusion, learning, accountability and continuous improvement
4. Monitor and improve service performance against activity, quality, outcome and financial targets, using data analysis to identify trends, address variances and implement improvement plans.
5. Promote quality, safety and patient experience by overseeing complaints, incidents, audits and learning, ensuring lessons are embedded into practice and service improvement.
6. Lead demand and capacity management, ensuring services remain sustainable, efficient and able to meet current and future population needs.

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

Essential

• Significant NHS operational management experience
• Evidence of continuing personal and professional development
• Management qualification or equivalent experience
• Professional clinical qualification or significant NHS experience

Desirable

• Experience of managing patient care services

Experience

Essential

• Significant recent experience of working at a senior level
• Substantial experience of working in community healthcare services delivering patient care
• Change management and service transformation experience related to the planning and delivery of work in a clinical setting
• Experience of staff management
• Experience of budget management

Desirable

• Experience of managing patient care services

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Essential ability to rapidly build credibility with all levels in the Trust, including senior managers and clinicians
• Ability to persuade clinicians to engage with, implement and embed change
• High level competence and computer literacy including MS Office, and clinical systems
• Proven ability to manage, analyse data and sound organisational skills
• Understanding of the National Drivers of the wider health and social care economies, how they affect CLCH and their practical application to service delivery
• Knowledge and understanding of the principles of quality governance
• Understanding and knowledge of the need to use evidence-based practice in the development and delivery of clinical services
• Knowledge of managing difficult situations and conflict resolution

Desirable

• Understanding of NHS Financial Guidance

Closing Date: 23 August 2026

How to Apply;

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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