Programme Manager, Community Mental Health

City of York Council; York; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government authority in York is seeking a Mental Health Programme Manager to lead the development of their Mental Health programme. The ideal candidate will engage with various stakeholders to enhance mental health services and demonstrate exceptional communication and quality improvement skills. This role offers a hybrid working arrangement and various staff benefits including health & wellbeing initiatives.

Benefits

Generous annual leave allowance

Access to Local Government Pension Scheme

Comprehensive Health & Wellbeing initiatives

Flexible working practices

Qualifications

• Strong values and commitment to quality of care.
• Ability to work across organisational boundaries.
• Competency to converse and provide guidance in spoken English to CEFR level B1.

Responsibilities

• Lead mental health transformation and quality improvement.
• Work with clinical leads and commissioners on mental health pathways.
• Drive the agenda forward and deliver at pace.

Skills

Exceptional communication skills

Quality improvement skills

Ability to engage quickly

Influencing skills

Job description

Overview

INTERNAL VACANCY

If you are an internal candidate interested in applying for this job as a secondment opportunity, please discuss with your current line manager before submitting your application.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead on the continued development of our Mental Health programme of work. This post will lead mental health transformation and quality improvement, working with the MH Senior Team, clinical leads, ICB leads, commissioners and providers to lead transformation of mental health pathways.

It is essential that the post holder is able to hit the ground running, have credibility within this field and an ability to engage quickly, driving the agenda forward and delivering at pace.

The successful candidate will have strong values, champion quality of care, have exceptional communication and quality improvement skills, be able to influence and encourage teams to work across organisational boundaries and hold patient care at the heart of their work.

As Mental Health Programme Manager, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in leading transformation of mental health services.

This role is suitable as a job share opportunity.

As this role is public facing, applicants will need to demonstrate, at interview, their competency to converse and provide advice and guidance to members of the public, in spoken English to CEFR level B1: Can exploit a wide range of simple language flexibly to express much of what they want. Can keep going comprehensibly, even though pausing for grammatical land lexical planning and repair is very evident, especially in longer stretches of free production.

Working arrangements and location

Hybrid working arrangements are available for this role. Each role at CYC is different and your working arrangements will be determined based on the requirements of the role and in collaboration with you and your needs as part of the recruitment process. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team.

Salary and benefits

City of York Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. We require the successful candidate to undertake an enhanced Criminal Record check via the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Please note, we do not have a sponsorship licence to sponsor individuals for visas to work in the UK, therefore we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

The Council is committed to investing in the talent and wellbeing of our staff and can offer a generous annual leave allowance, access to the Local Government Pension Scheme, comprehensive Health & Wellbeing initiatives and a reward package which recognises your contribution. We can offer flexible working practices, community engagement and volunteer activities and, as part of our commitment to you, promote continuous Learning & Development. In addition we also offer a growing range of discounts, rewards and savings.

How to apply and contact

For further information or an informal discussion please Zoe Delaney, Assistant Director of Integrated Commissioning at [e-mail]

Dates

Closing date: Sunday 28 September 2025 at 12 midnight

Interview date: Week commencing Monday 6 October 2025

Internally advertised posts are only open to CYC, WWY and Be Independent employees. Explore and Veritau employees are not eligible to apply for these posts.