Junior Operational Services Manager
| Posting date: | 10 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £55,690 - £62,682 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 March 2026 |
| Location: | Cramlington, NE23 6NZ |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7760845/319-7760845PM |
Summary
A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
The Medicine and Emergency Care Business Unit inNorthumbria Healthcare NHS Trust delivers a wide range of health services to meet the needs of local people. As part of service developments an opportunity has arisen for a Junior Operational Services Manager within Medicine. Medicine delivers care and support for a wide demographic and range of services, both emergency and elective.
The successful application will have operational responsibility for a range of services and teams, delivering excellence, innovation and improvement across the services they support, with detailed knowledge of emergency care standards and elective care performance.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
• To provide leadership support in the development of clinical and support services.
• To actively support the general manager in and contribute to the development of Directorate strategy and objective setting.
• To support the achievement of objectives within both the trust and Directorate.
• To support the General Manager in the delivery of services so as to meet the performance targets for the trust.
• To participate in the Managers on call system on a frequent basis.
• To effectively manage the pay and non-pay resource.
• To actively contribute to the achievements of the Directorate’s business plan.
• To plan for future growth, changes in working practices and project manage changes to successful implementation.
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.
• To ensure effective leadership, management, coordination and control of a defined area within the directorate at an Operational level.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
This advert closes on Tuesday 24 Feb 2026
The Medicine and Emergency Care Business Unit inNorthumbria Healthcare NHS Trust delivers a wide range of health services to meet the needs of local people. As part of service developments an opportunity has arisen for a Junior Operational Services Manager within Medicine. Medicine delivers care and support for a wide demographic and range of services, both emergency and elective.
The successful application will have operational responsibility for a range of services and teams, delivering excellence, innovation and improvement across the services they support, with detailed knowledge of emergency care standards and elective care performance.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
• To provide leadership support in the development of clinical and support services.
• To actively support the general manager in and contribute to the development of Directorate strategy and objective setting.
• To support the achievement of objectives within both the trust and Directorate.
• To support the General Manager in the delivery of services so as to meet the performance targets for the trust.
• To participate in the Managers on call system on a frequent basis.
• To effectively manage the pay and non-pay resource.
• To actively contribute to the achievements of the Directorate’s business plan.
• To plan for future growth, changes in working practices and project manage changes to successful implementation.
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.
• To ensure effective leadership, management, coordination and control of a defined area within the directorate at an Operational level.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
This advert closes on Tuesday 24 Feb 2026