Leeds TIME Service Manager (5721)

Emotional Health & Wellbeing Service Manager Leeds TIME

Permanent position but with a provisional end date for funding of 31/3/2027

35 hours per week (part time will be considered)

£38,390.76 per annum

Time for young people is our emotional wellbeing support space for young people 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 as flexible as possible to need individual needs.

Do you want to lead and co-ordinate the clinically informed youth work teams delivering emotional wellbeing & mental health (EWMH) service,

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 also offer young people more structured one-to-one sessions, alongside group-based work.

We are looking for a Service Manager that:

• The ability to act creatively and respond to new and challenging situations.
• Experience leadership and management of diverse teams in a range of setting.
• The ability to act on own initiative, supervise others and co-ordinate work.
• Experienced negotiation skills.
• Competent use of IT programmes
• Able to use therapeutic models in practice.
• The ability to co-ordinate working patterns, including on call rotas.
• Can demonstrate lone working experience and aptitude.
• Experience of compiling reports and presentation skills.

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 opt 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 retailer’s 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.   

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 CYP Directorate will be required to complete an “Employment history_template” document prior to interview. 

The closing date for applications is midnight on Tuesday 27th May 2025. If, after 14 days, we have received enough applications we can close this vacancy from Tuesday 13th May onwards.

Interviews will be held in the following weeks.

For an application pack please visit the web site http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/about-us/work-us

or telephone

The Children's Society Recruitment team on 020 7841 400

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