Are you passionate about mental health recovery, education, and empowering others? Do you have the leadership skills to drive an innovative learning environment? If so, we want YOU to lead New Leaf Recovery and Wellbeing College Our Development Manager, You Will Lead a vibrant, person-centered learning environment that supports personal recovery. Develop and deliver high-quality, co-produced educational programs. Build strong partnerships with people with mental health challenges, professionals, and the community. Oversee day-to-day operations, ensuring a welcoming and inclusive space. Inspire and manage a dedicated staff team and provide strategic direction to move the college forward. About You A strong leader with experience in mental health services, how the NHS runs, and an understanding of education and teaching. Passionate about co-production and lived experience. Skills in project management, service development, and stakeholder engagement. A creative thinker committed to breaking down barriers to learning and recovery. New Leaf Recovery and Wellbeing College is an educational platform that supports mental health recovery through co-produced and co-delivered courses and workshops. It empowers individuals by promoting self-management, resilience, and personal growth. Open to anyone over 18 living in Hertfordshire and to all those who use the Trust services and professionals. Lead the college, providing effective strategic professional and practice leadership to all staff working on behalf of the College. Establish processes and policies in line with best practices. Lead and ensure personal recovery practice and the assurance of effective governance across the workforce. Contribute to the strategic direction and development of the recovery practice across the organisation. Ensure students' wellbeing and adhere to safeguarding procedures to mitigate any risks. Work closely with students, practice staff, managers, and other staff to ensure that specific service delivery areas provide the optimum quality of care following national standards and local targets. Lead or support the implementation of change programmes to improve the support that empowers students in their personal recovery. Take part in coproduction sessions and co-deliver teaching sessions. Achieve critical priorities and targets aligned with the Trust strategy and aspirations. To be an agent for change and a champion of recovery. Offer strategic direction and planning for the growth of the lived experience workforce, working and liaising with key stakeholders within the Trust to ensure high levels of productivity and motivation and to ensure lived experience workers provision is responsive to need. Ensure personal recovery principles and a social inclusion framework are at the heart of the College. Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission. Our Family Of Over 4,000 Members Of Staff Provide Health And Social Care For People With Mental Ill Health, Physical Ill Health And Learning Disabilities Across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex And Norfolk, Delivering These Services Within The Community And Several Inpatient Settings. Everything Is Underpinned By Choice, Independence And Equality, With Our Trust Values Embedded Throughout Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional. These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be? For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Andrew Nicholls Job title: Head of Recovery & Consultant Psychologist Email address: andrew.nicholls3nhs.net Telephone number: 07767890113