Options Wellbeing Trust is looking for an experienced Service Manager with strong experience in mental health. The successful candidate will take the lead on implementing the organisation’s ambitious business and sustainability plans and ensure its social impact and commercial success in the future. What will I be doing? As the Service Manager with Options Wellbeing Trust, your role will be to manage and deliver the strategy as set out in the business plan with passionate leadership and operational teams, ensuring the highest quality clinical and organisational governance is met. You will be responsible for:

Ensuring the highest standards of clinical and organisational governance
Leading, growing, managing and maintaining an integrated team
Implementing the organisations strategy, sustainability and growth plans
Leading and managing workflow
Ensuring that all are safeguarded as the Designated Safeguarding Lead
Managing mixed income streams and expenses, keeping to the budget ensuring targets and key performance indicators are met
Building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders
Supporting funding applications, implementing social impact projects and exploring partnership working opportunities
Preparing reports for the executive team, board, funders and commissioners
Working with the executive team within SCiA Group

What will I need?

Extensive experience, holding a Service Manager role, ideally within the mental health and wellbeing charity sector
A counselling qualification to level 4 (minimum) with at least 3 years’ experience delivering counselling within a community setting.
Demonstrable experience in managing services and social impact projects as well as well as leading initiatives that drive organisational growth.
Experience in working to targets and budgets
Experience of identifying and managing relationships with key stakeholders
Experience in writing a range of reports for different purposes and stakeholders

Benefits

Salary between £40,000 and £45,000 dependent upon experience
25 days’ annual leave entitlement, (plus bank holidays)
Paid day off on your birthday
Access to Blue Light Card – discounts on high street stores and online in large national and local businesses.
Excellent refer a friend scheme
Employer contributory pension scheme

Please note, we will not be able to accept applications for those requiring sponsorship, for any candidates who do not hold a valid UK driving license and use of their own vehicle or for any candidates who do not currently reside within the area. Options Wellbeing Trust is part of a group of social enterprises called Social Care in Action. Social care in Actions is a charity with 30+ years’ experience serving local communities in southern England. It is made up of several not-for-profit social enterprises providing a range of reliable, person-centred care, wellbeing, counselling, transport and related services

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