Service Manager - Wakefield 0-19

NHS; Normanton and Altofts; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Wakefield is looking for a Service Manager to support the Health Visitors and School Nurses. This role involves operational leadership for clinical and non-clinical services, ensuring high-quality care for children and families. Suitable candidates must be registered nurses with substantial managerial and leadership experience within the NHS. The role offers a salary range of £55,690 to £62,682 per year and is a full-time permanent position.

Benefits

Employee Assistance Programme

Counselling service

Fast-track Physiotherapy service

Qualifications

• Proven managerial and leadership experience within the NHS.
• Experience of planning and managing risk in a project environment.
• Highly developed specialist knowledge relevant to working with children and families.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational leadership and management for clinical and non-clinical services.
• Work collaboratively to support performance targets and service specifications.
• Ensure delivery of high-quality and safe service.

Skills

Managerial experience

Leadership experience

Budgetary management

Education

Nursing experience and training at an appropriate specialist nursing level

Registered Nurse on the appropriate part of the NMC Register

Job description

Service Manager - Wakefield 0-19

The closing date is 14 December 2025

The Wakefield 0-19 Service have an exciting opportunity for a registered nurse with advanced specialist knowledge and skills to join our team as a Service Manager supporting our Health Visitors, School Nurses and Family Nurse Partnership with service delivery.

This role will be an integral part of the Wakefield 0-19 (Growing Healthy) Service, and will work directly with the Head of Children's Public Health Nursing and Operations to provide operational leadership and management for clinical and non-clinical services. The post holder will ensure caring, inclusive and compassionate leadership to staff within the geographic locality, as a part of the wider children's portfolio of the Children and Young People's Public Health Directorate.

The post holder will be a key point of contact with external partners such as Commissioners, GPs and the ICB, Local Authority, Education and Community Groups in relation to highly complex, and sometimes contentious service-related information. Acting as a point of escalation to ensure the delivery of Service and address issues which impact upon this.

Main duties of the job

This role is a strategic lead position to ensure the delivery of a high quality and safe Service to Children, Young People and their families, undertaken through assurance of effective safeguarding, audit, quality and governance, and education. The postholder will work in collaboration to support delivery of performance, meeting targets and the service specification requirements, through the overseeing of resource allocation, line management to ensure well enganged and high performing teams, and budget management.

About us

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) cares for the population in Harrogate and the local area, as well as across North Yorkshire, Leeds and parts of the North East.

At HDFT we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff and we value Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality. If you're looking for an interesting and rewarding career in the NHS, where you can make a real difference to patients' lives, HDFT could be the place for you!

We offer colleagues:

• A supportive culture so colleagues can bring their whole selves to work.
• Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise achievements with our Making a Difference & Team of the Month Awards, along with annual Colleague Recognition Awards.
• Employee Support and wellbeing - we offer a wide range of staff benefits including an Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and a fast-track Physiotherapy service.

Please note

• Due to high levels of interest, posts may close early if we reach a sufficient number of applications
• Visa sponsorship is only available for certain roles. Please ensure the role you are interested in meets the criteria for a visa before submitting your application.
• Please also be aware that the Trust does not offer relocation packages for Agenda for Change roles.
• All job offers are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks.

Job responsibilities

Please see the job description or contact Claire Abell [e-mail] for an informal chat about the role.

Person Specification

Experience

• Proven managerial and leadership experience within the NHS
• Experience of planning and managing risk in a project environment
• Experience of budgetary management

Knowledge

• Highly developed specialist knowledge relevant to working with children and families underpinned by theory and experience

Qualifications

• Nursing experience and training at an appropriate specialist nursing level
• Registered Nurse on the appropriate part of the NMC Register
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.

Address

Tuscany Way Wakefield - various sites across Wakefield District

Salary

£55,690 to £62,682 a year pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

421-CYPD-3494R

Job locations

Tuscany Way Wakefield - various sites across Wakefield District