Community Operations Lead - Child & Young People's Therapies
| Posting date: | 23 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £70,396 - £80,837 Per Annum Including HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 February 2026 |
| Location: | London, N18 1QX |
| Company: | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7758287/391-NMUH-7758287 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
We are seeking a dynamic and enthusiastic candidate to join our Babies, Children's, & Young People's Division in the position of Community Operations Lead - Child & Young People's Therapies and this role is offered on a permanent basis working 37.5 hours per week, with working patterns to be agreed upon appointment.
This post will be primarily based at our St. Michael's Community Hospital providing leadership support to the Children's Community functionalities, but will be required to provide support to our North Middlesex, Barnet & Chase Farm, & Royal Free Health Units on occasion.
This role is an excellent opportunity for someone seeking to further a career in Operations Management within a Children's setting, and the postholder will join the largest non-tertiary Children's Department in London, with access to developmental opportunities, and working alongside a passionate multi-disciplinary team.
Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert early with high interest and advise submission of applications at the earliest opportunity.
This post has responsibility for the management and clinical leadership of the children’s Therapy services comprising Speech and Language -Occupational Therapy-Physiotherapy-Dietetics within Enfield Community Services (Child Development Service -Family Hubs -pre-school, schools special and mainstream schools).
The postholder will provide day to day leadership and management of the service, which involves ensuring effective deployment of staff and resources to meet demands of service users and ensuring response times meet locally agreed guidelines and contractual obligations. The postholder will implement systems and processes to ensure that these services are delivered in accordance with Trust-wide policies and national/local targets.
The postholder will be responsible for delivering the Therapies service to the London Borough of Enfield based on the SLAs, providing performance data and any other information required to support the compliance of monthly and quarterly KPI’s.
The postholder will assume delegated responsibility for delivering clinical governance, service review and development including setting priorities for this area of service and monitoring clinical risk including learning from incidents.
The postholder will be responsible for recruitment and selection of Allied Health Professionals including skill mix initiatives and be accountable for management of staff, their supervision, appraisal, development, disciplinary and grievance procedures.
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
Take a tour of our hospital here
A full list of duties and responsibilities will be found within the job description and requirements for the role can be found within the person specification.
This advert closes on Sunday 8 Feb 2026
We are seeking a dynamic and enthusiastic candidate to join our Babies, Children's, & Young People's Division in the position of Community Operations Lead - Child & Young People's Therapies and this role is offered on a permanent basis working 37.5 hours per week, with working patterns to be agreed upon appointment.
This post will be primarily based at our St. Michael's Community Hospital providing leadership support to the Children's Community functionalities, but will be required to provide support to our North Middlesex, Barnet & Chase Farm, & Royal Free Health Units on occasion.
This role is an excellent opportunity for someone seeking to further a career in Operations Management within a Children's setting, and the postholder will join the largest non-tertiary Children's Department in London, with access to developmental opportunities, and working alongside a passionate multi-disciplinary team.
Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert early with high interest and advise submission of applications at the earliest opportunity.
This post has responsibility for the management and clinical leadership of the children’s Therapy services comprising Speech and Language -Occupational Therapy-Physiotherapy-Dietetics within Enfield Community Services (Child Development Service -Family Hubs -pre-school, schools special and mainstream schools).
The postholder will provide day to day leadership and management of the service, which involves ensuring effective deployment of staff and resources to meet demands of service users and ensuring response times meet locally agreed guidelines and contractual obligations. The postholder will implement systems and processes to ensure that these services are delivered in accordance with Trust-wide policies and national/local targets.
The postholder will be responsible for delivering the Therapies service to the London Borough of Enfield based on the SLAs, providing performance data and any other information required to support the compliance of monthly and quarterly KPI’s.
The postholder will assume delegated responsibility for delivering clinical governance, service review and development including setting priorities for this area of service and monitoring clinical risk including learning from incidents.
The postholder will be responsible for recruitment and selection of Allied Health Professionals including skill mix initiatives and be accountable for management of staff, their supervision, appraisal, development, disciplinary and grievance procedures.
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
Take a tour of our hospital here
A full list of duties and responsibilities will be found within the job description and requirements for the role can be found within the person specification.
This advert closes on Sunday 8 Feb 2026