Band 8a, Older Adult Community Services Manager, Swindon

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

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Later Life Community Services Manager in Swindon. This role focuses on delivering high-quality mental health care for older people, emphasizing compassionate leadership and service improvement. The successful candidate will lead community services, ensuring effective care delivery and fostering a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in community mental health services is essential.
• Ability to lead with kindness and clarity.
• Commitment to improvement and inclusive care.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of pathway improvement and transformation.
• Manage day-to-day delivery of safe and effective care.
• Contribute to service and quality improvements.

Skills

Compassion

Leadership

Communication

Education

Significant experience in older people's mental health services

Job description

Job summary

Are you passionate about delivering high quality mental health care for older people? Do you want to deliver transformation that makes a real difference to people who use our services, alongside carers and staff? Do you believe in shaping services alongside the people who use them?

An exciting opportunity has arisen in Swindon for a Later Life Community Services Manager. This is a newly created role, developed in direct response to a recognised need for dedicated leadership, coordination, and vision across our later life pathways.

We are looking for a compassionate, motivated, and values-driven leader with a strong commitment to older people's mental health, including organic and functional needs. You will hold a strong belief in the value of lived experience and co-production, alongside the ability to lead with kindness, clarity, and purpose across professional and organisational boundaries.

Main duties of the job

1. Initially, your focus will be to support the delivery of pathway improvement and transformation across our later life community services (including bridging gaps, improving transitions, focus on evidence-based interventions), some of which is already underway through existing programmes of work. You will link closely with colleagues, service users, carers, and system partners to achieve this.
2. Over time, the role will evolve to include full service management of the community later life services within Swindon, including responsibility for the day-to-day delivery of safe, effective, and high-quality care. You will support governance structures to ensure robust learning from incidents, and you will maintain an overview of risk reporting and complaints. You will also contribute to developing service and quality improvements.
3. Significant experience within older people's mental health services is key, alongside experience of working in the community. You will be keen to take on a new challenge, and committed to improvement and compassionate, inclusive care.
4. This is an opportunity to develop your own clinical and operational leadership skills within a supportive locality leadership team. If you are positive, skilled in developing relationships, can communicate clearly and honestly, and are motivated and curious, then we would love to hear from you.
Please see attached job description / key local information for further detail.

About us

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust), a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire, and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

At AWP, we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities, and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives, and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

Details

Date posted: 19 May 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for Change

Band: Band 8a

Salary: £53,755 to £60,504 a year

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 342-SWN036-0525

Job locations: Sandalwood House, Sandalwood Court, Highworth Road, Swindon, SN3 4WF