Autism Assessment Service Operational Lead

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

1/9/2025

Are you ready to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of children’s services?

As our Operational Service Lead, you will be a key member of the Children’s Services directorate, driving the successful delivery of key compliance, contractual outcomes, and strategic initiatives. This is your chance to make a lasting impact, ensuring our children’s services are safe, effective, and uphold the highest standards of care.

In this role, you’ll take the lead in monitoring, analysing, and reporting on the performance of our Autism Assessment services. You will be responsible for the planning and delivery of high-quality, cost-effective provisions while establishing strong, collaborative relationships with Children’s Clinical and Professional Leads, as well as administrative teams. Your leadership will be essential in guiding business planning and ongoing development within the department.

If you’re looking to lead with purpose and drive meaningful change, this role is for you.

Performance Monitoring: Oversee key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor service performance. Regularly evaluate and analyse data to identify trends, challenges, Data Quality, Validation and areas for improvement, taking corrective actions as necessary.

Operational Leadership: Take charge of the day-to-day operational management of administration services, ensuring efficient workflows, and seamless service delivery. Lead by example to inspire and motivate the team to achieve excellence.

Quality Assurance: Ensure adherence to healthcare standards, policies, and regulations. Implement and maintain quality assurance processes to uphold high standards of care, patient safety, and satisfaction.

Service Improvement: Identify opportunities for service enhancement and implement innovative solutions. Collaborate with stakeholders to develop and implement strategies that improve patient outcomes, experience, and operational efficiency.

Stakeholder Engagement: Establish and cultivate effective communication channels including clinical, administration staff and corporate partners. Collaborate with relevant parties to streamline processes and enhance service delivery.

Change Management: Lead the implementation of organisational change initiatives. Proactively identify opportunities for innovation and improvement, driving positive transformations within services.

Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas.

We are Sirona care & health – England’s largest provider of Adult’s and Children’s Community Services and we’d love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.

Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days’ annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme – just a glimpse of the benefits you’ll receive.

We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation.

We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.

Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different – we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.

Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find attached to this vacancy.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tony Page Job title: Operational Manager Email address: tony.page@nhs.net Telephone number: 07920251300