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Assistant Service Manager - Acute MedicineNHS

Bury St Edmunds, IP332QZ Permanent £49,387 to £56,515
Posted 21 September 2026 Closing date 5 October 2026
Bury St Edmunds Rail Station (1.5 miles, direct) Wymondham Abbey (Mid Norfolk Railway) (28.7 miles, direct) Barnards (12.6 miles, direct)

Job summary

As a member of the Medical Division's Management Team, the Assistant Service Manager is responsible for ensuring the efficient and effective day-to-day running of select services within the Division and line managing designated staff. In conjunction with the Senior Operations Manager and the Associate Director of Operations, the Assistant Service Manager will identify strategic developments within the service and implement changes where agreed, ensuring the delivery of key quality, performance, and financial plans.

Supporting the Senior Operations Manager, the Assistant Service Manager will deliver the relevant Trust targets, standards, KPIs and contractual requirements, ensuring there is a robust performance management framework within the service.

The Assistant Service Manager will represent their services and the Division at internal and external meetings.

Main duties of the job

For full details of the job Role and Person Specification, please see attached Job Description.The closing date for this vacancy may change if we receive a strong response. Please ensure that you apply for any post you are interested in as soon as possible.

Job description

For full details of the job Role and Person Specification, please see attached Job Description.The closing date for this vacancy may change if we receive a strong response. Please ensure that you apply for any post you are interested in as soon as possible.

About us

#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?

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