# Community Learning Disability Service Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-learning-disability-service-manager/d30f2fe9-5fb6-4027-9502-b4eb049d8845 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-learning-disability-service-manager/d30f2fe9-5fb6-4027-9502-b4eb049d8845.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Ashton Under Lyne - **Region:** North West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (participation ib clinical on-call rota) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-05T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-22T07:01:50.968Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Bury/Pennine_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Community_Learning_Disability_Services/Community_Learning_Disability_Services-v8031403 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8031403?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Community Learning Disability Services Manager (Band 8a) is responsible for providing clinical and operational leadership for specialist community learning disability services, including the Bury Specialist Community Learning Disability Team. The post holder is a senior leader within the Learning Disability Directorate, contributing to strategic development, service transformation and continuous quality improvement in line with Trust and system priorities. The role focuses on delivering safe, effective, person‑centred and well‑led services, ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory and commissioning requirements. The post holder works in close partnership with people with learning disabilities, families, carers, commissioners, local authorities and a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to improve outcomes, promote integration across health and social care, and ensure services reflect Trust values, national policy and best practice. ### Main duties of the job The post holder leads the planning, development, delivery and performance management of community learning disability services, ensuring high‑quality care within agreed resources and budgets. This includes establishing robust clinical governance arrangements, safeguarding systems, risk management processes and compliance with statutory, regulatory and CQC requirements. Key responsibilities include leading service transformation and integration, supporting innovative practice, and ensuring the voice of people with learning disabilities drives service design and quality improvement. The role requires strategic oversight of financial management, including responsibility for borough budgets, efficiency plans and service redesign, ensuring services are cost‑effective and meet agreed service specifications. The post holder provides professional, clinical and managerial leadership to senior staff and multidisciplinary teams, promoting engagement, learning, research, development and continuous improvement. They are responsible for workforce planning, performance appraisal, staff wellbeing and effective communication across services. The role also involves managing complaints, serious incidents and complex clinical matters, contributing to on‑call arrangements, and maintaining strong partnerships with commissioners, local authorities, voluntary sector organisations and wider system stakeholders. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The Community Learning Disability Services Manager (Band 8a) is responsible for providing clinical and operational leadership Bury Specialist Community Learning Disability Team. The post holder is accountable to the Associate Director within the Learning Disability Directorate and is a key member of the senior management team. The role has overall responsibility for ensuring services are safe, effective, caring, responsive and well‑led, in line with commissioning requirements, statutory frameworks, national policy and Trust values. The post holder plays a central role in shaping and delivering Trust and system priorities, including service transformation, integration across health and social care, and continuous quality improvement for people with learning disabilities. The post holder works in close partnership with people with learning disabilities, families and carers, commissioners, local authorities, clinicians, senior managers and wider system stakeholders. The role requires advanced leadership, sound financial and performance management, strong governance oversight, and the ability to manage highly complex clinical, operational and organisational challenges. ### Service Leadership and Delivery - Provide overall leadership for specialist community learning disability services, ensuring delivery of effective, efficient and high‑quality clinical pathways in line with commissioning specifications and available resources. - Develop, implement and oversee clinical and operational systems that support safe, effective, responsive and person‑centred care. - Ensure services reflect Trust values and national policy, and are continuously improved through quality improvement, benchmarking and innovation. - Lead and support service transformation programmes, working collaboratively with people with learning disabilities, families, carers, commissioners and partner organisations. - Support the integration agenda by working closely with community services, mental health services and local authority partners in line with locality, Trust and Greater Manchester Learning Disability strategies. ### Governance, Quality and Safeguarding - Ensure robust clinical governance arrangements are in place and operating effectively, in partnership with the Head of Quality for Learning Disability Services. - Ensure compliance with statutory regulation, legal frameworks and Care Quality Commission (CQC) fundamental standards. - Maintain effective systems for risk management, health and safety, patient safety and learning from incidents. - Oversee safeguarding arrangements for children and adults, ensuring policies are followed, concerns are acted upon promptly, and lessons learnt are embedded into practice. - Lead the effective management of complaints, serious concerns and allegations, ensuring timely resolution in line with Trust and partner organisation procedures. ### Clinical Leadership - Provide professional and clinical leadership across services, ensuring multidisciplinary teams are actively involved in service planning, decision‑making and quality improvement. - Offer senior clinical advice and expertise on complex assessment and intervention, particularly for individuals presenting with severely challenging behaviour or complex needs. - Promote evidence‑based practice, reflective learning, research and development across services. ### Financial and Performance Management - Hold responsibility for borough‑based budgets for learning disability services, including delegated financial accountability. - Monitor financial performance, identify pressures early, and report to the Associate Director or Service Director as required. - Work with senior leaders and finance colleagues on efficiency programmes, service redesign and cost‑effectiveness. - Act as an authorised signatory and ensure services meet required standards within agreed service level agreements and contracts. ### Workforce Leadership and Management - Provide line management to senior staff as required and ensure robust systems are in place for staff appraisal, job planning and performance management. - Ensure effective communication systems are in place so staff are informed, engaged and involved in decisions that affect them. - Promote strong multidisciplinary team working and positive staff engagement across services. - Support workforce development through shared learning, new ways of working across professional and organisational boundaries, and a culture of continuous improvement. - Contribute to the Learning Disability on‑call rota as required. ### Partnership Working and External Relationships - Develop and maintain effective working relationships with commissioners, local authorities, service user groups, police, voluntary sector organisations and wider system partners. - Promote the services positively at local, regional and national level. - Ensure the involvement of service users and families in operational and strategic planning and decision‑making. ### Policy, Equality and Professional Responsibilities - Ensure full compliance with Trust policies, procedures, standing orders and financial instructions. - Promote equality, diversity and inclusion in service delivery and employment practice. - Maintain professional standards of conduct and ensure continued professional development and mandatory training compliance. - Adhere to confidentiality, information governance and data protection requirements at all times. - Comply with health and safety, infection prevention and control policies and report incidents appropriately. ## Responsibilities The Community Learning Disability Services Manager (Band 8a) is responsible for providing clinical and operational leadership Bury Specialist Community Learning Disability Team. The post holder is accountable to the Associate Director within the Learning Disability Directorate and is a key member of the senior management team. The role has overall responsibility for ensuring services are safe, effective, caring, responsive and well‑led, in line with commissioning requirements, statutory frameworks, national policy and Trust values. The post holder plays a central role in shaping and delivering Trust and system priorities, including service transformation, integration across health and social care, and continuous quality improvement for people with learning disabilities. The post holder works in close partnership with people with learning disabilities, families and carers, commissioners, local authorities, clinicians, senior managers and wider system stakeholders. The role requires advanced leadership, sound financial and performance management, strong governance oversight, and the ability to manage highly complex clinical, operational and organisational challenges. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Detailed understanding of government policy in relation to LD services and wider health and social care agenda - Detailed knowledge of national targets and requirements - Highly developed specialist knowledge across a range of learning disability areas of practice **Desirable** - Working knowledge of implementing programmes of health improvement and national policy implementation ### Experience **Essential** - Experience at a senior management level - Experience of working in, managing and developing multi-disciplinary LD Services - Experienced in supporting people with complex and challenging needs. - Exposure to service, financial and staff management at a senior level - Experience of service redesign - Experience of leading quality improvement and change processes ### Skills and Abilities **Essential** - Ability to lead and manage a team - Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills - Ability to utilise IT effectively - Excellent report writing skills - Ability to critically analyse data - Ability to build confidence with local stakeholders and professionals - Ability to experience leading, motivating and empowering others to reach organisational goals, especially within complex multi- professional environments - Managing change and coping with ambiguity - Excellent communicator – both orally and written - Ability to demonstrate effective people and management skills - Project management skills ### Education / Qualifications **Essential** - Relevant health or social care professional qualification and registration - Post graduate diploma or equivalent experience which can be evidenced - Evidence of continued professional development - Evidence of management training **Desirable** - Post graduate study in research methodology - Clinical Supervision qualification ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 376.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10318969) - [policy statement on recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 117.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=440) - [community learning disability service manager ps (pdf, 153.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10318970) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.