Leadership Role, As a Children’s Service Manager, you will have the opportunity to lead and shape key services focused on child health and well-being in Glasgow.
Impactful Work, Your role will directly influence the health and lives of children and families, making a meaningful difference in the community.
Focus on Inclusivity, The position promotes inclusive practices and aims to minimize health inequalities, ensuring access to services for vulnerable populations.
Diverse Team, You will manage a diverse team of approximately 140 staff, allowing for collaboration and professional growth within a wide range of expertise.
Budget Management, The role comes with significant budgetary responsibility, providing experience in financial management and resource allocation, which can enhance your career trajectory.
Collaboration, You will work alongside other agencies and services, promoting seamless service delivery and building strong partnerships in the community.
Supportive Work Environment, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde promotes a culture of inclusion and diversity, along with being a Forces Friendly Employer, fostering a supportive atmosphere for all employees.
Join NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde as a Children's Service Manager and become a vital force in the transformational agenda of Glasgow’s Health and Social Care Partnership. In this pivotal role, you'll lead a dedicated team responsible for delivering essential health services to children and families across North East Glasgow. Your mission? To champion a strengths-based approach that battles poverty and promotes well-being for our community’s most vulnerable members.
As part of a dynamic management team, you’ll oversee Health Visiting, School Nursing, and Oral Health Promotion services, guiding approximately 140 staff while managing a budget of around £7 million. Your leadership will ensure the delivery of safe, effective, and person-centred care that addresses health inequalities and offers seamless support alongside various agencies. If you're passionate about making a positive impact in the lives of children and families, and excited by the prospect of working in a collaborative, inclusive environment, we want to hear from you!
At NHS Scotland, we genuinely value diversity and encourage women, carers, and members from all backgrounds to apply. With a commitment to being a Forces Friendly Employer, we’re proud to support applicants from the Armed Forces Community as well. Take the next step in your career and help shape the future of healthcare in Glasgow!
As part of a dynamic management team, you’ll oversee Health Visiting, School Nursing, and Oral Health Promotion services, guiding approximately 140 staff while managing a budget of around £7 million. Your leadership will ensure the delivery of safe, effective, and person-centred care that addresses health inequalities and offers seamless support alongside various agencies. If you're passionate about making a positive impact in the lives of children and families, and excited by the prospect of working in a collaborative, inclusive environment, we want to hear from you!
At NHS Scotland, we genuinely value diversity and encourage women, carers, and members from all backgrounds to apply. With a commitment to being a Forces Friendly Employer, we’re proud to support applicants from the Armed Forces Community as well. Take the next step in your career and help shape the future of healthcare in Glasgow!
Leadership Role, As a Children’s Service Manager, you will have the opportunity to lead and shape key services focused on child health and well-being in Glasgow.
Impactful Work, Your role will directly influence the health and lives of children and families, making a meaningful difference in the community.
Focus on Inclusivity, The position promotes inclusive practices and aims to minimize health inequalities, ensuring access to services for vulnerable populations.
Diverse Team, You will manage a diverse team of approximately 140 staff, allowing for collaboration and professional growth within a wide range of expertise.
Budget Management, The role comes with significant budgetary responsibility, providing experience in financial management and resource allocation, which can enhance your career trajectory.
Collaboration, You will work alongside other agencies and services, promoting seamless service delivery and building strong partnerships in the community.
Supportive Work Environment, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde promotes a culture of inclusion and diversity, along with being a Forces Friendly Employer, fostering a supportive atmosphere for all employees.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to become a key leader in Glasgow’s HSCP’s transformational agenda managing services focussed on an anti poverty and strengths based approach. Across North East Glasgow you will be managing the Health Visiting Service, continuing to implement the Revised Universal Pathway, manage and implement the School Nursing change agenda and oral health promotion.
DIMENSIONS
Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service can be found within the Candidate Information Packs.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde- NHS Scotland encourages applications from all sections of the community. We promote a culture of inclusion across the organisation and are proud of the diverse workforce we have.
By signing the Armed Forces Covenant, NHSGGC has pledged its commitment to being a Forces Friendly Employer. We support applications from across the Armed Forces Community, recognisingmilitary skills, experience and qualifications during the recruitment and selection process.
NHS Scotland is reducing their full time working week from 37.5 to 37 hours per week from 1 April 2024 but with no change in pay. This reduction will also be applied pro rata for part time staff. This advert and any subsequent offer/contract of employment therefore reflects the new working hours. However, as not all service areas will be able to adopt the 37 hour working week immediately from 1 April 2024, you may be required to work up to an additional 30 minutes per week for a temporary period for which you would be paid until the service you are working in changes rosters or working patterns to accommodate the new reduced working week. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the Recruiting Board.
Candidates should provide original and authentic responses to all questions within the application form. The use of artificial intelligence (AI), automated tools, or other third-party assistance to generate, draft, or significantly modify responses is strongly discouraged. By submitting your application, you confirm that all answers are your own work, reflect your personal knowledge, skills and experience, and have not been solely produced or altered by AI or similar technologies. Failure to comply with this requirement may result in your application being withdrawn from the application process.
For application portal/log-in issues, please contact in the first instance.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to become a key leader in Glasgow’s HSCP’s transformational agenda managing services focussed on an anti poverty and strengths based approach. Across North East Glasgow you will be managing the Health Visiting Service, continuing to implement the Revised Universal Pathway, manage and implement the School Nursing change agenda and oral health promotion.
DIMENSIONS
- Approximately 140 staff.
- Approximately £7m of staff and resources budget.
- Main services, health visiting, school nursing, oral health promotion.
- Parenting Services - individual and community capacity building.
- Lead for Child Protection in the sector.
- will become part of the North East Management team alongside Social Work
- may also manage any hosted services or thematic children’s service developments on behalf of Greater Glasgow and Clyde as part of the broader team
- will provide leadership and have operational management responsibility for Children and Family Services in a locality, ensuring the delivery of Children and Family Services outcomes in line with the planning frameworks
- will manage staff, be accountable for all aspects of service delivery and responsible for budget and physical resources for children services within the locality
- will ensure that the outcomes which have been set for Children and Family teams are delivered
- will be delivering safe, effective, person centred and responsive care and support services
- will promote service delivery that minimises health inequalities
- will work in partnership with related services and agencies to ensure seamless provision of services
- will ensure access for the most vulnerable children and families
- will ensure clinical, financial and staff governance standards and local and board wide agreed outcomes are met
Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service can be found within the Candidate Information Packs.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde- NHS Scotland encourages applications from all sections of the community. We promote a culture of inclusion across the organisation and are proud of the diverse workforce we have.
By signing the Armed Forces Covenant, NHSGGC has pledged its commitment to being a Forces Friendly Employer. We support applications from across the Armed Forces Community, recognisingmilitary skills, experience and qualifications during the recruitment and selection process.
NHS Scotland is reducing their full time working week from 37.5 to 37 hours per week from 1 April 2024 but with no change in pay. This reduction will also be applied pro rata for part time staff. This advert and any subsequent offer/contract of employment therefore reflects the new working hours. However, as not all service areas will be able to adopt the 37 hour working week immediately from 1 April 2024, you may be required to work up to an additional 30 minutes per week for a temporary period for which you would be paid until the service you are working in changes rosters or working patterns to accommodate the new reduced working week. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the Recruiting Board.
Candidates should provide original and authentic responses to all questions within the application form. The use of artificial intelligence (AI), automated tools, or other third-party assistance to generate, draft, or significantly modify responses is strongly discouraged. By submitting your application, you confirm that all answers are your own work, reflect your personal knowledge, skills and experience, and have not been solely produced or altered by AI or similar technologies. Failure to comply with this requirement may result in your application being withdrawn from the application process.
For application portal/log-in issues, please contact in the first instance.
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