Obesity Service Manager

2 weeks ago


Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom Livewell Southwest Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Obesity Service Manager to lead our multi-disciplinary Tier 3 specialist Weight Management Service in Plymouth. The successful candidate will have leadership and day-to-day management responsibility for the service, working collaboratively with key stakeholders to ensure a safe and effective service is coordinated and delivered for the population.

About the Role

The Obesity Service Manager will have a key role in driving improvement, embedding change, and standardising practice, based on local requirements, national guidelines, and clinical best practice. The postholder will lead and support a complex and rapidly changing service with a focus on service redesign, working in close partnership with the multidisciplinary team.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead and manage the recruitment, organisation, and coordination of all staff.
  • Conduct appraisals and ensure that all staff in the area of responsibility receive these at no less than yearly intervals.
  • Give guidance and feedback to staff on their performance.
  • Facilitate and supervise training programmes for staff, encouraging working groups, and research-based projects.
  • Monitor sickness and absence, and action appropriately.
  • Provide professional leadership to all staff.
  • Encourage basic and post-basic learners, nursing and medical students, plus school children during their work experience placements.
  • Incorporate them into a safe and manageable working structure, adhering to organisational policies and procedures for both employees and visitors.
  • Manage disciplinary procedures for own team (investigating officer).
  • Ensure appropriate support is provided to all staff when it is identified that an investigation is required under the Organisations Policies i.e. Disciplinary, Complaints.
  • Deal with conflict in teams and arrange/facilitate appropriate support.
  • Signpost staff for ongoing support (Vivup).
  • Provide support to staff, e.g. informal counselling, listening, providing feedback.
  • Ensure all staff adhere to relevant statutory regulations policies, risk assessment, safety procedures, and COSHH regulations.
About Us

Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, health & wellbeing hubs.

We are committed to involving the people we care for, families & carers in everything that we do, working towards co-production where we can. Helping us to deliver the right care for people, in the right place & at the right time. By putting people at the centre of what we do, we ensure to support people to lead healthy independent lives & be the very best at helping people to live well.

Valuing our employees making an investment in their development a priority. We offer:

  • Protected CPD time for registered staff
  • Various development pathways and ongoing regular training packages for all staff
  • Leadership & mentoring programmes
  • Access & funding for training including Care Certificate, Assistant Practitioners Course & Scholarship Into Nurse Training
  • A Robust Preceptorship
  • A bespoke induction programme
  • Existing members of the NHS Pension Scheme can continue their membership when they join the organisation.


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