Service Manager - Internal Medicine
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 17/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This is a 12-month fixed-term or secondment opportunity for a Service Manager within the Internal Medicine division. The role supports the General Manager in operational management of services like Diabetes, Endocrinology, Respiratory, and Sleep Studies. Key responsibilities include day-to-day operational duties, administrative support coordination, and planning operational functions to meet service targets. The post holder will also manage performance monitoring, clinical governance reporting, and project work.
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Evidence of professional development/leadership development
Desirable criteria
- Operational experience in the healthcare sector
- Project change or management experience
- The ability to source, interpret, report data
- Experience working in a complex, varied and unpredictable environment
- Good knowledge of IT systems including Outlook, Word and Excel
- Knowledge of internal IT systems
- Management and Development
- Proven effective people management
- Leadership skills
- Experience of managing upwards
- Delivery of an effective/efficient admin service
- Evidence of working in a multidisciplinary team
- Freedom to Act
- Proven ability to act autonomously and ability to make day to day decisions
- Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
- Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role
- Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues
- Experience/Qualifications
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Evidence of professional development/leadership development
- Operational experience in the healthcare sector
- Project change or management experience
- The ability to source, interpret, report data
- Experience working in a complex, varied and unpredictable environment
- Good knowledge of IT systems including Outlook, Word and Excel
- Knowledge of internal IT systems
- Management and Development
- Proven effective people management
- Leadership skills
- Experience of managing upwards
- Delivery of an effective/efficient admin service
- Evidence of working in a multidisciplinary team
- Freedom to Act
- Proven ability to act autonomously and ability to make day to day decisions
- Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
- Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role
- Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
An opportunity has arisen for a 12 month temporary contract or secondment for maternity cover.
The Service Manager is an integral part of the overall Divisional management structure and will support the General Manager and lead on operational management of a specified set of services within the Specialist and General Medicine Directorate, specifically Diabetes and Endocrinology, Respiratory and Sleep Studies.
The Service Manager will work closely with the General Manager to support the development of Internal Medicine services, including performance, and the management of day to day service issues.
Main duties of the job
Provide operational support to the General Manager to include day to day operational duties; providing through others, administrative duties for meetings; performance reports and supporting papers. Additionally, providing project management support to the management team as required.
**Coordinate effectively to ensure administrative support is available to support the functions of the Division and senior team, delegating responsibilities as appropriate. The post holder will manage processes by using initiative in the absence of senior managers to ensure correspondence is responded to, queries are answered, and through dissemination of information and directives as appropriate, to other areas of the division/hospital to ensure prompt ac
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