Emotional Health and Wellbeing Service Manager - Leeds TIME
Permanent position but with a provisional end date for funding of 31st March 2027
Salary: £38,390.76 Per annum
Time for young people is our new emotional wellbeing support space for young people who live and study in Leeds. Time for young people empowers young people to take time for themselves.
Leeds TIME 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. These will always be agreed in advance and will be flexible as possible.
Do you want to support a team who work with children, young people with emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties?
The Post holder will lead Leeds Time ensuring to maintaining risk and ability to manage challenging situations. Working in partnership with CCG/ICS’s, Children & Young People Mental Health services, Police, Children’s Social care and other statutory/ non statutory service providers.
It is planned to offer drop in sessions where young people can drop in and meet trained staff one to one. Young people can come along and talk through what they are struggling with. The service holds no waiting lists and therefore the ability to build relationships quickly, identify risks, and process further support is vital.
Alongside our drop-in support, we will also offer young people more structured one-to-one sessions if appropriate.
The nature of the Emotional Health & Wellbeing services the ability to build relationships quickly, identify risks, and process further support is vital.
In order to be considered for this post you will have to demonstrate that you already have:
Skills
1. The ability to act creatively and respond to new and challenging situations.
2. Extensive experience leadership and management of diverse teams in a range of setting.
3. The ability to act on own initiative, supervise others and co-ordinate work.
4. Experienced negotiation skills…
5. Competent use of IT programmes
6. Able to utilise therapeutic models in practice
7. The ability to co-ordinate working patterns, including on call rotas
Work-based Knowledge
8. Excellent understanding of common mental and emotional health issues that children & young people face, informed by current research and evidence bases.
9. Clinical insight into emotional health and mental health pathways within the NHS CYP Mental Health Services.
10. Appreciation and awareness of issues facing hard-to-reach young people around access to early help and crisis support.
11. A working knowledge of current mental health support agencies in the local area.
Qualifications
12. A qualification in leadership or management
13. A relevant professional qualification in the field health, social care or youth work.
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 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.
This vacancy closes at midnight on 7th September 2024. If after 14 days, we have received enough applications we can close this vacancy from the 23rd August onwards.
Interview date to be confirmed.