Band 8a Hub Manager - Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Service

NHS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust as a Band 8a Hub Manager. This pivotal role involves managing the Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Service, providing operational and clinical leadership. You will enhance service user experiences by developing pathways and ensuring accessible care solutions amid a diverse and high-demand community.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• Significant operational/team management experience.
• Professional registration in a health profession.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to support service user transitions through pathways.
• Develop processes and systems for service improvement.
• Ensure key performance indicators are met.

Skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

People management skills

Motivational leadership

Partnership working

Education

Master's degree in relevant subject

Professional registration in a health related profession

Quality assurance or management qualification

Job description

Go back Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Band 8a Hub Manager - Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Service

The closing date is 14 July 2025

Are you looking for your next exciting challenge? Are you an experienced healthcare manager with community, operational experience and excellent leadership skills?

This is a wonderful opportunity to join our senior clinical leadership team at a time of exciting change. We pride ourselves on the progress we are making in transforming our community mental health provision in Birmingham and Solihull, and we are looking for a hub manager to join us.

The post holder will manage the Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Service based in North Solihull with the aim of providing excellent operational and clinical leadership and management to staff in ensuring an accessible, responsive and truly transformational offer of mental health care provision to service users and carers.

Main duties of the job

You will lead a team which will support the seamless transition of service users through the pathways in accordance with their needs.

You will continue to develop a service that ensures that we improve service user experience, by ensuring holistic assessments and by building relationships that enable access to a range of community support services and networks to meet health and social needs.

You will have the opportunity to develop processes, systems and pathways, and you will work across professional and service boundaries to ensure collaborative working and integration of services.

You will ensure that the aspirations and key performance indicators for the service are met, and you will have robust systems in place to monitor and review the service.

About us

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.

Job responsibilities

For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

• Master's degree in relevant subject ( or working towards) or equivalent relevant experience
• Professional registration in a health related profession
• Quality assurance or management qualification

Knowledge and experience

• Substantive post-graduate/qualifying registration experience with substantive experience at Band 7
• Significant operational/ team management and leadership experience
• Experience of community nursing and/or multi-agency working
• Proven track record of crisis, serious incident management in health care setting.
• Proven record of evaluating nursing care/care delivery and driving up standards of practice.
• Working within integrated care pathways.
• Working knowledge of Primary and Secondary Care Services

Skills

• Higher levels of organisational, communication and people management skills.
• To be able to demonstrate motivational leadership skills and drive new initiatives.
• Ability to establish and maintain partnership working/relationships.

Personal Qualities

• Willingness to work to changing circumstances when required.
• To be able to assert oneself in appropriate forums whilst respecting the dignity, wishes and beliefs of others.

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.

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

£53,755 to £60,504 a yearper annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,Flexible working,Compressed hours