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 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:
1. To lead and manage the Mental Health Support Team on a day to day basis
2. To enable a safe, quality evidenced 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.
3. The post holder will 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
In order to be considered for this post you will have to demonstrate that you already have:
Skills
4. Knowledge and skills in delivery of high professional care standards in line with legislation and best practice
5. The ability to act creatively and respond to new and challenging situations.
6. Ability to process information with a solution focused approach
7. A positive approach to working with children and young people with a range of difficulties
8. Extensive experience leadership and management of diverse teams
9. The ability to act on own initiative, supervise others and co-ordinate work.
Work-based Knowledge
10. Demonstrable experience of working in CYP emotional wellbeing and mental health services
11. To be trained and competent as a manager and education mental health services
12. Skills and experience of working with children, young people and families around a range of emotional/Mental health/behavioural/additional health/developmental needs
13. Excellent understanding of common mental and emotional health issues that children & young people face, informed by current research and evidence bases.
14. Clinical insight into emotional health and mental health pathways within the NHS CYP Mental Health Services.
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