Gateshead Service Manager (5404)

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Gateshead Service Manager

The post-holder will work within an innovative mental health team.

Emotional Health and Wellbeing services opening hours supports the needs of the communities in which we work, and therefore there are elements of unsociable hours - this may include evenings, weekends, and bank holidays.

Permanent position but with a provisional funding end date of 31st March 2025

Hours: 21 per week

Salary: £38,390.76 per annum/ £21,789.35 pro rata.

Benefits - 28 days holiday per year (plus Bank holidays), Family-friendly policies, Cycle to work scheme, Pension- employee contributions of up to 8%, Death in service benefit, Discounted health scheme, Free confidential counselling service

Do you want to support a team who work with children, young people with emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties?

To lead and co-ordinate the clinically informed youth work team delivering brief intervention services in Gateshead supporting staff to work with Children, Young People, and Young Adults in our Emotional Health & Wellbeing services based in Gateshead offering low intensity support under a brief intervention framework.

It is planned to offer various drop ins in Gateshead venues have yet to be identified.

The nature of the Emotional Health & Wellbeing services the ability to build relationships quickly, identify risks, and process further support is vital.

Skills

• The ability to act creatively and respond to new and challenging situations.
• Extensive experience leadership and management of diverse teams in a range of setting.
• The ability to act on own initiative, supervise others and co-ordinate work.
• Experienced negotiation skills.
• Competent use of IT programmes.
• Able to utilise therapeutic models in practice.
• The ability to co-ordinate working patterns, including on call rota's.
• Can demonstrate lone working experience and aptitude.
• Experience of compiling reports and presentation skills.

Work-based Knowledge

• Excellent understanding of common mental and emotional health issues that children & young people face, informed by current research and evidence bases.
• Clinical insight into emotional health and mental health pathways within the NHS CYP Mental Health Services.
• Appreciation and awareness of issues facing hard-to-reach young people around access to early help and crisis support.
• A working knowledge of current mental health support agencies in the local area.
• An understanding of current legislation, policy, procedures, and issues relating to safeguarding young people.
• Substantial experience of leadership within a mental health service.
• Track record of working with external stakeholders to deliver better outcomes for children and young people.
• Experience of working with a range of partners (both statutory and wider)

For an application pack please visit the web site

http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/about-us/work-us

or

telephone The Children's Society Recruitment team on 020 7841 4400

The Children's Society runs over 100 local services that help thousands of young people who desperately need our support, and we campaign to get laws and policies changed to make children's lives happier and safer.

Every day we're changing the lives of children in this country for the better - and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more.

All people within diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply, and particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities.

The closing date for applications is 21st May 2024. If after 14 days, we have received enough applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy on 7th May 2024 onwards.

Provisional Interview date TBC

The Children's Society is committed to safeguarding an d protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.

Therefore, candidates applying for work in our Youth Impact Domain will be required to complete an "Employment history template" document prior to interview. The fully completed document should be loaded by the candidate at the point of uploading your CV.

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