Job summary
- Main area
- Registered Nurse
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 444-7046080-BL
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wayside house
- Town
- Coventry
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Services Manager (School Immunisation & Children's Services)
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services
‘We recognise the benefits of flexible working and support applications wherever possible. If you would like to work flexibly please ask the recruiting manager for more information.’
Armed Forces Community welcome to apply.
PLEASE NOTE that this vacancy can be closed as soon as sufficient applications are received.ÌýStaff at risk within the Trust will be given priority.
Please check your emails, including junk and spam folders, regularly throughout the process of your application for any notifications from the Recruitment Team.Ìý ÌýIf you have any queries regarding your application please phone the Partnership Trust Recruitment Department.
Job overview
Key areas of responsibility
To provide strong operational leadership to a discrete portfolio of services.
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Be responsible for ensuring that services are delivered safely; to a high standard and within budget. There will be a need to be transformative and innovative as services expand and relationships across the system are developed to meet local needs
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Work with others to continuously improve services, ensure service user and carer experience is positive; services are responsive and accessible and transitions between services are smooth and seamless.
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Ensure that clinical governance mechanisms are in place, driven at a local level, ensuring lessons are learnt and experience informs ‘best practice’. This will include working with Safety & Quality colleagues to ensure that lessons are proactively learnt via the appropriate formal and informal processes, and that complaints and concerned are managed to communicate effectively with stakeholders
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
- Service Management: Develop, deliver, and improve services, ensuring quality, performance, and budget efficiency.
- Collaboration & Leadership: Work with stakeholders, communicate key updates, and foster staff leadership.
- Decision-Making & Analysis: Monitor performance, budgets, and risks, implementing improvements as needed.
- Planning & Innovation: Develop business plans, promote best practices, and drive service improvements.
- Patient & Client Care: Ensure safe, accessible services, particularly for vulnerable groups.
- Policy & Compliance: Engage stakeholders, manage complaints, and enforce clinical and child protection policies.
- Financial & Resource Oversight: Manage budgets, procurement, and resource allocation.
- Staff Management: Lead recruitment, training, and workforce planning while overseeing HR policies.
- Performance & Reporting: Track KPIs, provide reports, and ensure service quality.
- Research & Development: Support audits, research, and continuous service evaluation.
- Work Environment: Balance physical, mental, and emotional demands while managing office and travel duties.
Working for our organisation
Children’s Integrated Directorate Vision:
"Providing timely, child-centred support to enhance well-being, development, and inclusion."
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust (CWPT) delivers community, day care, and respite services for children and young people across Coventry, Warwickshire, and Solihull. Recent service reorganization offers an exciting opportunity to improve outcomes for families.
This portfolio includes well-child services, with SAIS being a high-achieving, adaptable service trialing innovative practices. Collaboration is key, with close partnerships across CWPT, ICB, Education, and Public Health.
We seek a dynamic leader with strong managerial skills to drive excellence in care, believing in community-based support and cross-sector collaboration to help children and young people thrive.
For more information, contact Lindsey Sandler at [email protected].
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description andÌý Person Specification within theÌý supporting information
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by diploma level specialist training, management qualification or equivalent and experience
- Relevant qualification or significant experience in clinical children’s field
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Strong understanding of national policy in relation to services for children and young people
- Ability to develop and implement innovative solutions, to problem solve and respond to sudden unexpected demands
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post
- Willing to undertake DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) clearance at enhanced level
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of delivering successful change within a service context, using a range of effective influencing, negotiation, facilitation and process skills
- Budget management experience including reducing costs (CIP), monitoring and determining corrective action
- Experience and understanding of safeguarding;
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lindsey Sandler
- Job title
- GM for Physical Health and Learning Disabilities
- Email address
- [email protected]
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