Operational Service Manager - Sexual Health Service

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Blyth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Operational Services Manager to lead the Northumbria Sexual Health Service. The service works across sites between Northumberland and North Tyneside and provides a 3 tier Sexual Health Service to both Local Authority areas.

The service is based at Blyth One to One Centre at Blyth Hospital site and the North Tyneside General Hospital. We also hold outreach clinics at various locations Countywide. The service provides clinic-based care and digital online services to patients requiring support with maintaining their sexual health including all forms of contraception, STI screening, treatment and psychosexual therapy as well as health promotion to the local population.

The post holder will work with Northumbria Healthcare Trust at senior management level within the new model of integrated sexual health service, to ensure continual service development, overseeing service provision, driving innovation and raising the profile locally, regionally and nationally.

The post holder will act as a key point of contact to ensure prompt responses through initiative, effective communication, leadership and robust change management methodology for sexual health services.

The post holder will lead the development, implementation and coordination of multi-agency sexual health plans.

The post holder will ensure budgetary compliance within allocated resources.

The post holder will mitigate risk by contributing to policy and procedure development, as well as disseminating, interpreting and embedding of organisational protocol.

The post holder will role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?

Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients. You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost-effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well, it isn’t; this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

For further details / informal visits contact:

1. Name: Julie Burrows
2. Job title: Senior Manager
3. Email address: [e-mail]
4. Telephone number: 07394865569