Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to lead and shape the future of Universal Children's Services across Hull, commissioned by the local authority and delivered by Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust. As Service Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving innovation, improving outcomes, and ensuring that every child has the best possible start in life.



You will lead the Integrated Public Health Nursing Service (IPHNS), a high-performing, evidence-led service that delivers the Healthy Child Programme and supports children and families through every stage of early development.



With a strong foundation of clinical excellence and governance, the service is well-positioned to expand its reach, reduce inequalities, and respond to the evolving needs of the local population.

This role offers the chance to:

Influence system-wide transformation in line with the NHS Long Term Plan

Champion integrated working across health, education, and social care

Empower teams to deliver high-impact, trauma-informed care

Co-design services with children, families, and communities

Use data and insight to drive continuous improvement and accountability



If you're passionate about public health, committed to equity, and ready to lead with purpose, this is your moment to make a lasting difference.



Provide visible, compassionate leadership to ensure the delivery of safe, effective, and equitable care across designated services and teams.



Be accountable for the operational delivery of the Integrated Specialist Public Health Nursing (ISPHN) service, ensuring alignment with national frameworks such as the Healthy Child Programme and local population health needs.



Champion a culture of continuous improvement, clinical excellence, and workforce wellbeing. Lead and support a team of public health nursing leaders who represent the service across the wider health and care system.



Promote collaborative working across Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), ensuring services are joined-up, responsive, and reduce unwarranted variation.



Embed trauma-informed, strengths-based approaches that reflect the complexity of children's lived experiences and support early intervention.



Work in partnership with colleagues, stakeholders, and service users to co-design and evolve the local public health offer, ensuring it is inclusive, accessible, and culturally competent.



Use data and insight to identify gaps, reduce inequalities, and target resources where they are needed most.



Demonstrate advanced management skills, providing expert advice and support to service users, carers, staff, and external agencies.



Uphold principles of clinical governance, safeguarding, and ethical practice, ensuring services are safe, accountable, and person-led.



We are an award winning and CQC rated good, health and social care Trust that delivers care to communities in Hull, East Yorkshire, Scarborough and Ryedale and Whitby. We deliver safe, effective and integrated health services that improve the physical, mental and social health and wellbeing of our patients and service users.



To find out more about our wide range of services including mental health, learning disabilities, children and young people service, Forensic, Community and Primary Care visit our website humber.nhs.uk/Services



You will join our team of over 3600 colleagues that work together across our wide geography and specialties to change lives every day. We're extremely proud of our Trust community and we know you can expect to receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need from your new team to get you started.



We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development to ensure the delivery of high quality, person-centred and compassionate care to patients. We value our staff and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills and competencies to deliver outstanding care.



For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached job description and person specification.