Service Manager - Medicine Care Group

NHS; York; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the Cardiology and Respiratory team as a Service Manager at a leading NHS Foundation Trust. This role involves managing daily operations, supporting staff, and ensuring patient care excellence. Ideal candidates will have strong administrative skills and leadership experience, contributing to high quality healthcare services.

Benefits

Access to the NHS Pension Scheme

Generous holiday entitlement (27 days rising to 33)

Relocation package up to £18k

Employee Assistance Programme

NHS Car Lease scheme

Cycle to Work scheme

Learning and development opportunities

Discounts on various services

Qualifications

• Significant administrative and staff management experience.
• Experience in dealing with sensitive and complex situations.
• Understanding of RTT 18 week pathway.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily operational issues to ensure the smooth running of the services.
• Support in staff management, scheduling, and performance reviews.
• Investigate and respond to patient complaints in a timely manner.

Skills

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Education

Degree Level or equivalent

Job description

Go back York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Service Manager - Medicine Care Group

The closing date is 29 June 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Cardiology and Respiratory team, in the role of Service Manager.

This role will support the Medical Operational Management to deliver high quality care to our patients.

If you are an organised individual with strong admin and leadership skills, we would love to hear from you!

Please note - if you would like your application to be considered for secondment, you must secure agreement from your line manager beforehand that you can be released to undertake the role.

Please note: This post may become Permanent at the end of Fixed Term/Secondment.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be required to:

• Provide management support on a daily basis. The main focus of this is to manage day to day operational issues, to ensure smooth running of all the directorate's services.
• Assist the Operational Service Manager in the maintenance and development of clinic/theatre timetables, clinic templates, appointment systems and scheduling.
• Support the Operational Service Manager in investigating and responding to patient complaints and concerns, received in an appropriate and timely manner, in accordance with Trust policy.
• To be responsible for the monitoring of patient pathways, including undertaking activity and waiting list monitoring, for both outpatient and inpatient patients to enable the specialty to meet access targets.

You will be responsible for line managing a team of secretarial and administrative staff. This will include a combination of acting as an appointment panel member, recruitment, conducting personal development reviews, dealing with the initial or subsequent stages of disciplinary, grievance, sickness absence and performance issues.

You will be responsible for ensuring that appropriate training is delivered to staff, and that individual staff members work allocation is managed effectively and reallocated as required to best meet the needs of the service.

About us

We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:

Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants

27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service)

A generous relocation package of up to 30% of salary (capped at £18k) to support with relocation expenses for hard to fill positions where relocation would be an expectation to undertake the role fully. If you would like to discuss a potential relocation package, please speak to the recruiting department/manager.

A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave

Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme

NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme

An extensive range of learning and development opportunities

Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers

For further information on the fantastic range of benefits we offer please visit the Trust's dedicated Staff Benefits pages.

Job responsibilities

A full description of the role is available in the attachment: job description.

Please note that if a high number of applications are received this advert may close early. You are advised to submit your application at the earliest opportunity.

Working for the Trust

Across our organisation, people are guided by values that were co-developed with staff: we are kind; we are open; and we pursue excellence.

Our values play into our ambition to develop a more diverse workforce, truly representative of our communities. We welcome applications from everyone, while working with our Staff Networks - including our Race Equality, LGBTQ+, Disability and Carers Networks - to increase the number of applications we receive from different backgrounds. If there is anything we can do to make our application process more accessible to you, please contact: [e-mail].

As part of seeking to become more inclusive, we will consider requests for flexible working from the start of your employment. It may not be suitable for every role, but we will try and be supportive where we can. We would encourage you to speak to the recruiting manager named within this advert to discuss any requirements you may have.

Armed Forces Friendly Employer

We are holders of the Gold Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, which is helping actively promote SaBRE - Supporting Britains Reservists and Employers. This means that we have made a statement of intent to support all Defence personnel, including with applications for employment.

Person Specification

Experience

• Educated to Degree Level OR have equivalent
• Significant administrative experience including Staff Management/ Supervisory experience
• Previous experience of dealing with sensitive and/or complex situations.
• Experience of dealing with a wide range of service users
• Understanding of RTT 18 week pathway

Personal Attributes

• Self-discipline/motivated to function independently, but also able to motivate others

Skills

• Possess a range of developed communication skills
• Able to organise and prioritise both own workload and that of others as required.
• Have the ability to exercise sound judgement in relation to problem solving and identifying situations requiring further advice
• Able to function effectively as part of a team.
• Experience of managing organisational change within a team e.g. restructures, changes to job requirements.

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 name

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust