Service Manager RISE Emotional Wellbeing & Mental Health (5959)

The Children's Society; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent children's support charity is seeking an Emotional Health & Wellbeing Service Manager in Newcastle & Gateshead. You will lead a Mental Health Support Team delivering interventions for children facing emotional and mental health challenges in educational settings. The role requires leadership experience and a strong understanding of the wellbeing sector, alongside commitment to safeguarding children. Competitive salary and generous benefits offered.

Benefits

Enhanced annual leave

Free eye tests

Pension match contribution

Life Assurance

Cycle to work scheme

Retail discounts

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in CYP emotional wellbeing and mental health services.
• Trained and competent in education mental health services.
• Experience working with children, young people, and families on various emotional and developmental needs.
• Excellent understanding of current mental and emotional health issues in children.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Mental Health Support Team on a day to day basis.
• Ensure a safe, quality evidenced-based service.
• Deliver evidence-based interventions in educational settings.

Skills

Knowledge in care standards

Creative problem-solving

Solution-focused approach

Positive approach to diverse difficulties

Leadership and management experience

Initiative and supervision skills

Education

Training in emotional wellbeing services management

Job description

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Role based in Newcastle & Gateshead

£35,100-£38,390.76 per annum

35 hours per week

Permanent position with a provisional funding end date of September 2026. All posts will be eligible for consideration under TUPE if contract awarded to another organisation.

The successful applicant will work out of our Newcastle office.

The Children's Society has a vacancy for a Emotional Health & Wellbeing Service Manager within our RISE Service in Newcastle & Gateshead.

The Rise service offers evidence-based individual and group interventions in educational settings for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, as well as supporting settings to develop their whole school/college approach to mental health.

Your role will be:

• To lead and manage the Mental Health Support Team on a day to day basis
• To enable a safe, quality evidence-based service; the team will require development and there will be specific work to ensure robust integration across early intervention pathways, working alongside community partners and education settings.
• The post holder will lead the team to deliver evidence-based interventions with children and young people in education settings with mild to moderate emotional and mental health problems

In order to be considered for this post you will have to demonstrate that you already have:

Skills

• Knowledge and skills in delivery of high professional care standards in line with legislation and best practice
• The ability to act creatively and respond to new and challenging situations.
• Ability to process information with a solution focused approach
• A positive approach to working with children and young people with a range of difficulties
• Extensive experience leadership and management of diverse teams
• The ability to act on own initiative, supervise others and co-ordinate work.

Work-based Knowledge

• Demonstrable experience of working in CYP emotional wellbeing and mental health services
• To be trained and competent as a manager and education mental health services
• Skills and experience of working with children, young people and families around a range of emotional/mental health/behavioural/additional health/developmental needs
• 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.

Information About the Children's Society

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.

Benefits

Enhanced Annual leave 28 days length of service extra 2 after 2 5 and 7 goes up to 36 days plus bank holidays.

Free eye test claim back

Pension match contribution up to 8% can opt out

Life Assurance death in service 4 x salary gets paid to nominated person.

Cycle to work 39% of bike costs can be spread across the year

770 retailers discounts offered with You Star App.

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

For an application pack please visit the web site http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/about-us/work-us or telephone The Childrens Society Recruitment team on 020 7841 444.

The Children's Society is committed to safeguarding and 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 closing date for applications is Midnight on Sunday 7th December. We reserve the right to close the vacancy after 14 days from the 1st December onwards.

Interviews dates to be confirmed.