Service Manager RISE Emotional Wellbeing & Mental Health

Overview

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 vacancy for an 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

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.

• Enhanced Annual leave: 28 days length of service + extra 2 after 2, 5 and 7 years (up to 36 days) plus bank holidays.
• Free eye test claim back.
• Pension match contribution up to 8% (you can opt out).
• Life Assurance: death in service 4 x salary paid to nominated person.
• Cycle to work: 39% of bike costs can be spread across the year.
• Discounts: 770 retailers offered with You Star App.