Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Support Manager

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About the Role
Are you an organised, motivated and people-focused operational professional looking to take the next step in your NHS career? The Northern Care Alliance is seeking a Support Manager for Maternity, Gynaecology and Neonates.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the day-to-day running of a busy and high-performing service, ensuring our patients receive timely, safe and compassionate care. You will work closely with the Operations Lead Manager, Clinical Leads and wider multidisciplinary teams to support operational delivery, performance, workforce management and service improvement.
This role is central to ensuring our patients’ voices are heard, their care is prioritised, and our services continue to improve.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the daily operational requirements of selected Pain Service areas, ensuring clinics, theatre lists and patient pathways run smoothly.
- Support the achievement of key performance standards, including RTT and cancer pathways, through accurate validation, escalation and collaborative problem-solving.
- Build strong working relationships across clinical and administrative teams, using your communication and influencing skills to drive positive change.
- Support medical staffing processes including rota coordination, sickness monitoring, mandatory training compliance and job plan activity.
- Lead or contribute to complaint investigations, PALS enquiries and incident reviews, ensuring timely and compassionate responses.
- Analyse complex data to understand capacity, demand and performance, supporting decision-making and service planning.
- Contribute to service improvement projects, PDSA cycles and governance processes to enhance patient experience and operational excellence.
- Provide line management, coaching and development support to administrative staff within the service
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About Us
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.


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Benefits
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Victoria Fox
- Job title: Deputy Operations Director
- Email address: victoria.fox@nca.nhs.uk
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