Role Overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced manager to lead and improve services across our Children's Directorate, which includes Community Paediatrics, Paediatric Therapies, Tier 4 inpatient mental health, Community CAMHS, and specialist services.
This is a key operational leadership role, responsible for ensuring safe, effective, and high-quality care. We are seeking someone with a values‑driven approach and a strong track record of delivering against local and national targets to balance the need for authenticity and compassion in leadership alongside performance improvement and financial accountability.
You’ll work closely with multidisciplinary teams to drive service improvement in both mental and physical health for children and young people. The role offers a diverse portfolio, with varied commissioning and contracting arrangements, providing excellent opportunities for professional growth and autonomy within a supportive senior leadership team.
Strong communication and partnership skills are essential, as the role involves strategic and operational liaison with a wide range of stakeholders.
If you’re ready for a new challenge and want to make a meaningful impact, we’d love to hear from you.
For more information, please contact Caroline Simmons, Operations Director for Children, Young People and Families Directorate directly: caroline.simmons2@cpft.nhs.uk
Responsibilities
* Operational management and delivery of excellent, high quality, patient focused, and effective clinical services within the area of responsibility ensuring that all service targets and objectives are delivered as set out in the business plan.
* Ensure that all aspects of service delivery, service development and quality improvement are focused on patient and carer experience, patient safety and clinical effectiveness.
* Establish excellent relationships with clinical staff, leaders and external stakeholders successfully developing high quality clinical services in response to evidence-based practice and commissioner requirements.
* Ensure that all care pathway services within the area of responsibility meet their quality objectives and comply with the governance requirements of CQC, NHS Improvement, and the Mental Health Act.
* Coordinate the contribution and involvement of support and corporate services to the work of the area of responsibility in support of the business plan.
* Lead the development of workforce capability so that all staff have the right skills, knowledge and behaviours to deliver effective services, and to create a working environment and open culture which fosters high morale and commitment among all staff and promotes their professional and personal development.
About the Trust
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high‑calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under‑represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications. Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Caroline Simmons
Job title: Operations Director
Email address: caroline.simmons2@cpft.nhs.uk
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