Please note this is a fixed term position until 15th January 2028
Working hours: Minimum of 35 hours per week
Interview Date: 25th and 26th August 2026
Lead with purpose. Deliver with confidence. Drive excellence where it matters most.
We are looking for a confident, accountable and solutions-focused Operations Manager to provide senior operational leadership across the Modern Slavery Victim Care Contract. This is a pivotal role for someone who can maintain business-as-usual delivery while strengthening performance, compliance, governance and continuous improvement across a complex, high-profile service.
You will lead day-to-day operations with clarity and pace, ensuring services remain safe, effective and responsive. You will oversee delivery against key performance indicators, support timely and accurate reporting, and use data and management information to identify trends, validate performance, inform practice and drive evidence-based decision-making.
This role requires a strong people manager who can empower subject experts, hold teams to account, support managers through change and embed robust processes that enable consistent delivery. You will bring discipline to operational oversight, ensuring issues are escalated appropriately, risks are managed proactively and validation processes provide assurance that reporting, invoicing and service performance are accurate, reliable and contractually compliant.
If you are an experienced operational leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment, values accountability, and can turn data into meaningful action, we would welcome your application.
In order to complete your application please download and read the job profile and any other attachments.
In the job profile you will find the criteria required for the role please make sure that you address this in your supporting statement as this forms the basis of our shortlisting.
Appointment will be subject to satisfactory references, a criminal record check (DBS: Basic DBS Disclosure) and evidence of your Right to Work in the UK in line with Home Office requirements. As we are not a licensed sponsor, applicants must already have the right to work in the UK. Details on how to prove your Right to Work can be found here.
The Salvation Army actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential, and we welcome applications from a wide range of candidates, including those with criminal records.
Please note that any Salvation Army employees who are under notice of redundancy and apply for this position will be given priority consideration.
We reserve the right to close this advert earlier if we feel that we have received sufficient applications.
Promoting equality in the workplace and as a disability confident leader scheme employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet all the minimum essential criteria for the vacancy.
