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: -To lead and manage the Mental Health Support Team on a day to day basis -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. -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 -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. Work-based Knowledge -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. INFORMATION ABOUT THE CHILDREN'S SOCIETY 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. Benefits Enhanced Annual leave 28 days length of service extra 2 after 2 5 and 7 goes up to 36 days plus bank holidays. Free eye test claim back Pension match contribution up to 8% can op out Life Assurance death in service 4 x salary gets paid to nominated person. Cycle to work 39% of bike costs can be spread across the year 770 retailers discounts offered with You Star App. All people within diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply, and particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities For an application pack please visit the web site http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/about-us/work-us or telephone The Childrens Society Recruitment team on 020 7841 444 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. The closing date for applications is Midnight on 2nd February 2026. Interviews dates to be confirmed. IN1