Overview
Job title: Service Coordinator
Contract Type: Employed, permanent
Hours: 17.5 per week (0.5 FTE) - term time only
Blended working: Office (Cambridge)/Home based with travel across Cambridgeshire
Salary: £12,737 per annum (£29,700 FTE)
Start: November 2025
About the Employer
This charity provides specialist wellbeing and arts based mental health support and therapy in local schools across Cambridgeshire.
They help children struggling with anxiety, grief, anger and other emotional problems so they can enjoy happier childhoods and build brighter futures.
The children they support are at the heart of everything they do and they are proud to take a whole school approach to their work.
About the Role
You will manage the delivery of this charity's services to schools within one or more geographical areas across Cambridgeshire – Cambridge City, West Cambs, East Cambs, Peterborough or Fenland. The employer is particularly interested in hearing from candidates who wish to work in the Peterborough area.
You will work closely with the other Service Coordinator to ensure that high-quality, safe and effective services are delivered to children.
You will use your organisational and administrative skills to support a pool of self-employed therapists and facilitators; providing induction, case allocation, risk management, safeguarding, and reflective practice so that they are able to deliver clinical work to a high standard.
The Service Coordinator will use their therapeutic knowledge and experience and excellent interpersonal skills to collaborate with the wider team; working with the Fundraising team to promote this charity and its service to local organisations, the Data & Evaluation Lead to support the collection of service information, and the Clinical Services Manager to develop the organisation's services and promote them to schools.
This is an exciting time for this charity, as they continue to grow the service, and this role offers candidates the opportunity to support clinical service innovation.
What we offer
This employer can offer you a competitive salary, with a commitment to the Real Living Wage. They offer a supportive working environment including flexible working and a focus on the professional development of all staff. As a mental health charity, they focus on staff wellbeing and a positive work/life balance.
Safeguarding is central to all of this organisation's activities, and they recognise that the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk, is paramount and that all have equal rights of protection. The organisation has a duty of care when these people are in their charge, and they will do everything they can to provide a safe and caring environment whilst they attend this charity's activities.
Closing and How to Apply
Closing date for applications: Wednesday 24th September
Interviews to be held on: Wednesday 1st and Thursday 2nd October
Interested?
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