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Job summary

Main area
Nursing
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
B0399-7316390
Employer
St Anne's Community Services
Employer type
Private Sector
Site
Unit 5, Fountain Court,
Town
Morley, Leeds
Salary
£54,135 per annum, plus 9% clinical enhancement (£4,872 pa) and car allowance
Closing
13/07/2025 23:59

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Clinical Area Manager

Job overview

Are you an experienced leader with a passion for people, performance, and purpose?

 

Clinical Area Manager

37.5 hours per week 

Based in Morley, Leeds 

£54,135 per annum, plus £4,872 (9%) clinical enhancement, car allowance and we pay your NMC registration

 

Managing a group of Nursing services, as a Clinical Area Manager, you’ll be responsible for shaping and leading high-quality services that reflect the needs of the individuals we support. This is your opportunity to make a tangible impact—by inspiring staff, supporting development, and driving quality improvement across your area.

 

You will join a team of 2 highly experienced Heads of Operations & 9 Area Managers who will support and guide you through your management journey. 

 

The main focus of this exciting role include:

People Leadership – Recruit, support, and manage your team professionally to create a motivated, capable, and caring workforce.

Staff & Personal Development – Champion training and development for yourself and your team, ensuring skills stay aligned with service goals, local commissioning plans, and regulatory changes.

Quality Improvement – Be accountable for continuously enhancing the quality of care with support from our dedicated Quality Team.

Client Involvement – Promote client voice, choice, and involvement at every level of service planning and delivery.

 

This is a fantastic opportunity to stretch and develop your management skills in a dedicated, person centred and progressive charity!

Main duties of the job

Responsible for ensuring that all staff employed within your service are recruited, developed, supported and managed in an appropriate and professional manner to meet the needs of individual services.

 

Responsible and accountable for addressing the learning and development needs of yourself, your Managers and staff and ensuring that these are reviewed against St Anne's service objectives, local Commissioning Plans, local contract requirements and changes in legislation.

 

Responsible and accountable for the Continuous Quality Improvement of the service provided within your defined management span, supported by the Quality function.

 

Responsible for maximising the opportunities for Client participation and involvement at different levels and in different ways in your service.

 

Responsible for ensuring that you and staff within your service comply with St Anne's values and beliefs, policies and procedures.  In addition, that any legal or contractual obligations are fully met.

Working for our organisation

St. Anne's wants to reward its employees for their hard work. Employee benefits include;

  • Rising annual leave each year to a maximum of 33 days (including statutory holidays)
  • 24 Hour Employee Assistance Programme
  • Continuous opportunities for ongoing training and career development
  • Cycle To Work scheme
  • Refer A Friend recruitment initiative
  • Flexible working opportunities (where applicable) upon successful completion of probation period
  • Group Personal Pension Scheme
  • Discounted income protection scheme
  • Free car parking at most services
  • Free life assurance cover

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Responsible for contributing to the development of budgets for your services and accountable for ensuring that they remain within agreed budgets.

 

Responsible for ensuring services are operated in the most cost-effective way and make recommendations about how these can be operated more efficiently.

 

Responsibility for ensuring that your service(s) have access to, and uses, current thinking, research and evidence based practice in the delivery of those services.

 

Responsible for ensuring that any contract requirements in respect of your service are fully complied with and work towards exceeding these in future years.

 

Responsible for communicating effectively within your workplace, within your team and within the organisation, and for escalating appropriate matters.

 

Responsible for establishing and maintaining effective links with other organisations, and agencies, or workers whose role(s) may impact upon your service area both internally and externally.

 

Responsible for ensuring that as an individual, and as part of a team, that all resources are used appropriately and that all necessary steps are taken to avoid fuel energy waste.

 

Taking a lead in new service development, managing the process of new services being set up or transferred and working with the Business Development Department to secure new work.

 

Responsible for ensuring regular dialogue with all Commissioners purchasing work in your services and ensure positive productive working relationships.

 

Responsibility for contributing to the successful future development of St Anne's by highlighting opportunities within the broad corporate aims of the organisation.  This will include contributions to policy and procedures and to service developments.

 

Responsible for providing an enthusiastic and innovative approach to the management of the service and act as a positive role model for staff.

 

Responsible for ensuring that active steps are taken to minimise the period of voids, maximising interest in vacancies and ensuring arrears are kept within agreed targets.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Professional qualification, e.g. Nursing / Social Work and/or relevant management qualification, e.g. NVQ 4/5, CMS, CMI Level 5 DMS or MBA

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of Managing Social Care services
Desirable criteria
  • Setting up and / or development of new Services
  • Experience of managing more than one service

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Investors in PeopleStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employer

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jamie Smith
Job title
Head of Operations
Email address
[email protected]
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