CAMHS Operational Manager

Overview

In this role you will lead and shape the CAMHS inpatient and acute care pathway across Greater Manchester, guiding a large multidisciplinary team to deliver safe, effective, and compassionate care. You will drive transformation aligned with local and national priorities, collaborate with regional partners, and improve outcomes for children and young people with complex mental health needs. This senior position offers influence over service design, equity of access, and care closer to home, within a supportive leadership team.

Pay / Benefits

• staff wellbeing focus
• development opportunities
• permanent contract
• full-time role
• competitive salary (£57,528–£64,750)

Responsibilities

• Lead the CAMHS inpatient service and the wider acute care pathway across Greater Manchester
• Drive service improvement, innovation, and transformation in line with priorities
• Provide inclusive leadership to nursing, therapeutic, medical and administrative teams
• Ensure high standards of quality, governance, safeguarding, patient experience and regulatory compliance
• Lead workforce planning, staff development, performance, budgets and resource use
• Oversee patient flow, bed management and capacity planning
• Build partnerships with young people, families, commissioners, authorities, community teams, and other providers
• Represent Pennine Care as lead provider and contribute to regional strategic decisions

Key requirements

• Demonstrable experience of mental health inpatient ward management (Band 7)
• Experience leading a multidisciplinary team including chairing meetings and case management
• Project management experience
• Business planning experience
• Clinical and management supervision experience
• Experience in CAMHS inpatient settings or working with young adults
• Knowledge of inpatient unit functioning and safeguarding
• Current UK professional registration and licence to practise

• Leadership and people management
• Stakeholder engagement and relationship-building
• Strategic thinking and change leadership
• Clinical governance and safeguarding knowledge
• Bed management and capacity planning
• Performance management and service development

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