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Salary for this role£57,528 – £64,750 a year

Health and Care route minimum£25,000 a year

Pay basisNational pay scales (NHS bands)

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Closest occupation match: SOC 1259, Managers and proprietors in other services not elsewhere classified. Home Office going rate for this occupation: £41,700 a year.

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Role description

Job summary

The Service Manager will manage a complex programme of interdependent projects across more than one Business Unit to ensure development of financially affordable solutions to capacity and quality constraints in Leeds Childrens Hospital, based at Leeds General Infirmary. This will enable the development, delivery and maintenance of all access targets, cancer capacity and cancelled operations target, activity plan and maximising data capture and coding efficiencies. Working in partnership with clinical staff, commissioners, managers and users, the post holder will lead the redesign of services and business processes, and be responsible for facilitating the involvement of all stakeholders to ensure timescales are met and service benefits realised.

The Service Manager will ensure that robust activity and financial management systems are in place during the planning period to maintain business continuity. Specifically the post holder will line manage the Clinical Service Unit Business Manager, ensuring that operational and access targets are met, and take the lead in developing effective business processes and systems within the Leeds Childrens Hospital to enable the sustained delivery of key operational targets.

Main duties of the job

Leeds Childrens Hospital covers 27 medical and surgical specialties and is one of the largest specialist childrens hospitals in the country. We have over 20 inpatient wards, employ over 800 nurses and last year held over 170,000 outpatient appointments and treated over 25,000 surgical patients both electively/non-electively. Leeds Teaching Hospitals is currently embarking on one of the largest and most high-profile investment, transformation and regeneration programmes in the City and the wider region. Its Building the Leeds Way Programme aims to transform healthcare for patients in Leeds and the wider region. The investment Programme include the construction of two new hospitals at the Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) site one for adults and the other a brand state of the art Childrens Hospital for Leeds and the surrounding region.

About us

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.

Date posted

01 October 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£57,528 to £64,750 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

002235

Job locations

Leeds General Infirmary

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS1 3EX

United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

For questions about this job, contact

Ruth Kirby

Assistant General Manager

ruth.kirby3@nhs.net 0113 3923394

Shortlisting Date: 16th October

Interview Date: 23rd October

What you will bring to the role

Ability to work under significant and sustained pressure and to highly demanding and often conflicting timescales.
Ability to maintain systems for keeping abreast of changes in the NHS and their impact on Leeds Childrens Hospital
Commitment to team working with the ability to take personal responsibility for difficult decision making
Ability to monitor, maintain and improve service delivery
Awareness of strategic direction and ensure local business plans take account of the overall direction of the Trust
Ability to communicate and network effectively, negotiate and influence others taking into account the multi-professional and organisational cultures

Highly developed communication skills to enable the development of workforce and capacity planning and ensure that departmental business plans and continually changing service plans and schedules are updated to meet service needs
Ability to produce a range of documents to varying audiences, both internal and external to the Trust some of which is of a confidential, sensitive or contentious nature
Possess change management skills to include service reconfiguration

Ability to establish processes and systems within Leeds Childrens Hospital to develop and monitor financial and business plans across specialist services working collaboratively with other Clinical Service Units

Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.

About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

Our Trust values

The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.

We are.

Responsible Open and Honest One Team Kind

Our Trust priorities

Our purpose: Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time

Our priorities:

People Improvement and Innovation Partnerships Outcomes

Sponsorship Eligibility

To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Please select Apply to view the full Job Description

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.