Service Manager

Recruiter
Richmond Fellowship
Location
Aylesbury
Salary
Competitive
Posted
29 Jun 2022
Closes
14 Jul 2022
Sectors
Sport & Leisure
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
You ve got an understanding of mental health issues and substantial experience of working in employment services. All you need is the perfect environment to put your skills to great use. Welcome to Richmond Fellowship as a Service Manager.

Right now, we re looking for someone like you to manage the day-to-day running of our Employment service in Aylesbury at the Sue Nicholls Centre. We re a job regain and retention service embedded and working alongside Oxford Health NHS IAPT and our team provides support, advice and guidance to people in work as well as those either out of work or off sick. As well as ensuring the quality of service and support provided to people who use our services, with support from our Area Manager, we ll rely on you to manage service contracts and line manage front line staff. Whether you re carrying out an induction, undertaking an investigation, putting team development plans in place or providing support to our business development team, one thing s for sure - you won't be short of challenge and variety.

We expect you to have substantial experience gained managing a caseload of individuals with mental health and employment needs, as well as being outcome driven and able to lead by example using your firm but inclusive management style. You re open and encouraging too, and have lots of tact and diplomacy. What's more, you're great at managing conflicting priorities on time, have a flexible attitude to working hours and are willing to participate in on call arrangements. And, if you have experience of carrying out investigations, writing reports/recommendations or managing budgets, even better, although it's not essential.

The post holder will need to have a full and clean drivers licence and access to their own vehicle.

We offer great benefits including non contributory life assurance policy (to the value of 3 x annual salary), a contributory pension scheme and employee assistance programme. The Service Manager role will report to the Richmond Fellowship Area Manager, who will provide regular supervision and support.

The salary for this post is GBP GBP27,546 with progression to GBP28,879 per annum.

This is a permanent role.

This is a full time role requiring the post holder to work 37.5 hours per week.

Recovery Focus is committed to working towards equal opportunities and we select staff solely on merit irrespective of race, colour, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, social class, religious belief, disability or history of mental health or addiction problems. If you need support to apply for the role or adaptions at interview please contact the recruitment team to discuss.

This is a rolling recruitment process. Candidates will be interviewed as and when they are shortlisted.

Richmond Fellowship is part of Recovery Focus, a national group of charities highly experienced in providing specialist support services to individuals and families living with the effects of mental ill health, drug and alcohol use, gambling and domestic violence. We know that recovery can look and feel very different to each and every one of us. But we also know that if we provide the right support, at the right time, we can inspire recovery nationwide and that recovery is possible for everyone.

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