Job summary
Are you ready to guide and inspire a skilled team delivering life changing mental health and wellbeing support to children, young people and families?
This is your opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our amazing Derby Mental Health Support Team (MHST).
You will work closely with the Service Manager to lead high quality services that deliver on our promises and make a real difference in schools, communities and family homes. This is a role where every decision you make can create lasting change, from setting service priorities and building strong partnerships to ensuring safe, effective and compassionate care for the people we support.
You will take responsibility for service performance, staff leadership, safeguarding, contract management, risk management and building meaningful relationships with partner organisations.
With the freedom to innovate and the support of a dedicated leadership team, you will ensure our services not only meet but exceed expectations. Doing the best we can do can go a long way in building brighter futures for children, young people and their families, we need your help to make this happen!
Main duties of the job
We are looking for someone who brings proven leadership experience in mental health or community services, with the confidence to manage contracts, people, performance and change whilst ensuring that values lie at the heart of everything they do. You will need:
- Experience of leading services delivering evidence based interventions for children and young people
- Strong skills in contract, risk and performance management
- Ability to build and sustain effective partnerships with stakeholders at all levels
- Understanding of safeguarding, governance and quality assurance frameworks and how to apply them in practice
- Experience in managing teams with varied professional backgrounds and skill levels
- Proven ability to lead through change, delivering improvements without compromising quality
- Track record of meeting challenging performance targets within complex service environments
- Confidence in analysing data to inform service planning and evidence outcomes
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence, negotiate and resolve conflict effectively
It would be great if you also bring experience of working in education settings, developing and implementing new services or delivering training. More than anything, you will be driven by the belief that every child and young person deserves to feel safe, heard, supported and valued.
If this opportunity sounds like something you would grab with both hands, we would like to hear from you.
About us
Compass is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. Established for over 30 years, Compass is a national charity which works in communities across the UK providing services spanning substance misuse treatment and rehabilitation, early interventions for vulnerable young people, school-aged health programmes and associated prevention as well as treatment and health promotion initiatives.
All Compass posts are subject to appropriate level DBS checks.
We positively encourage applications from all members of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation, and encourage applications from people who have experiences in life which enrich skills and empathy. This is part of our commitment to equality and developing a truly inclusive and representative workforce.
We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments individuals may require in the recruitment process, on commencement, or once in post.
Benefits
We offer a range of benefits including:
- 27 days holiday + bank holidays, rising to 32 days over time (pro rata)
- Life assurance at 2 x basic salary
- Competitive contributory pension scheme
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and OH service
- Enhanced sick pay
- Excellent learning & development opportunities and career progression
- Annual performance/salary review
Help us to make a positive change to the lives of children and young people!
Closing date: 10th Sept
Interview date: 24th Sept
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Are you ready to guide and inspire a skilled team delivering life changing mental health and wellbeing support to children, young people and families?
This is your opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our amazing Derby Mental Health Support Team (MHST).
You will work closely with the Service Manager to lead high quality services that deliver on our promises and make a real difference in schools, communities and family homes. This is a role where every decision you make can create lasting change, from setting service priorities and building strong partnerships to ensuring safe, effective and compassionate care for the people we support.
You will take responsibility for service performance, staff leadership, safeguarding, contract management, risk management and building meaningful relationships with partner organisations.
With the freedom to innovate and the support of a dedicated leadership team, you will ensure our services not only meet but exceed expectations. Doing the best we can do can go a long way in building brighter futures for children, young people and their families, we need your help to make this happen!
Job description
Job responsibilities
Are you ready to guide and inspire a skilled team delivering life changing mental health and wellbeing support to children, young people and families?
This is your opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our amazing Derby Mental Health Support Team (MHST).
You will work closely with the Service Manager to lead high quality services that deliver on our promises and make a real difference in schools, communities and family homes. This is a role where every decision you make can create lasting change, from setting service priorities and building strong partnerships to ensuring safe, effective and compassionate care for the people we support.
You will take responsibility for service performance, staff leadership, safeguarding, contract management, risk management and building meaningful relationships with partner organisations.
With the freedom to innovate and the support of a dedicated leadership team, you will ensure our services not only meet but exceed expectations. Doing the best we can do can go a long way in building brighter futures for children, young people and their families, we need your help to make this happen!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant degree (e.g. in health / social care), or equivalent
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Management/Leadership qualification e.g. NVQ Level 5, or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Qualified in core profession such as Mental Health Nurse (RMN), Mental Health Practitioner, Clinical Psychologist, Occupational Therapy, Social Work or creative therapies e.g. Art Therapy
- Relevant masters or post graduate qualification
- Project Management or business qualification e.g. PRINCE 2
- Relevant post graduate qualification in Mental Health related field
- Level 4 or above qualification in CBT
- Certificate in supervision
Experience
Essential
- Relevant degree (e.g. in health / social care), or equivalent
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Management/Leadership qualification e.g. NVQ Level 5, or equivalent experience
- Relevant post qualification experience
- Previous experience leading a service comprised of clinicians delivering evidence-based interventions in a community service
- Significant experience of working within services which provide psychoeducational and psychological interventions to CYP
- Experience of working in partnership with education (schools, PRUs, Special schools,
- FE colleges) and/or statutory services
- Knowledge of national policy and guidance relating to public health and early intervention such as Future in Mind
- Held lead responsibility for service delivery against contract KPIs and service level agreements
- Management of contract(s), services and teams balancing delivery, resources and finance against KPIs
- Provided strategic oversight as well as having responsibility for operational delivery
- Experience of working with multiple funders and commissioners to meet service specification/s
- Leading and directing a skill mix team that is made of different roles and competency requirements
- Managing organisational change and transition
- Experience of working within quality assurance and clinical governance frameworks to ensure services, systems, standards of care and practice are safe and effective
- Implementing new models of delivery/products/initiatives and dissemination of learning and best practice
- Experience of delivering evidence-based interventions and approaches with children and young people across a variety of care settings
- Understanding and practical application of the safeguarding agenda via policy, procedure, supervision and practice
- Experience of leading on developing, delivering and evaluating evidence-based holistic care packages
- Performance management of individuals and teams
- Evaluating and analysing activity data to develop future service delivery and planning
- Managing effective contractual and partner relationships
- Working with service users and key stakeholders to shape design, delivery, development and ensure continuous improvement
- Effective budget and resource management
- Experience of meeting targets and deadlines within financial and contractual constraints
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Demonstrate leadership and the ability to delegate and supervise staff whilst being an effective role model
- Recognition and escalation of risk, contributing to control measures
- Planning workload, time management
- Work under pressure and able to manage changing priorities
- Understand need for evidence and statistical data collection, and achieving targets
- Ability to write formal performance monitoring reports
- IT skills
- Team player and a dynamic personality
- Multi-agency/disciplinary working
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and inter- personal skills
- Innovative practice and ability to influence others
- Ability to analyse, evaluate and rationalise data and enable progressive models of delivery and intervention
- Visionary approach to managing change and transition
- Self-aware; positive attitude; flexible and adaptable; solution and business focused; and tenacious
- Has a strong degree of personal integrity
- Ability to assertively engage young people, families and carers
- Access to own transport or evidence of ability to commute efficiently between community venues.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant degree (e.g. in health / social care), or equivalent
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Management/Leadership qualification e.g. NVQ Level 5, or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Qualified in core profession such as Mental Health Nurse (RMN), Mental Health Practitioner, Clinical Psychologist, Occupational Therapy, Social Work or creative therapies e.g. Art Therapy
- Relevant masters or post graduate qualification
- Project Management or business qualification e.g. PRINCE 2
- Relevant post graduate qualification in Mental Health related field
- Level 4 or above qualification in CBT
- Certificate in supervision
Experience
Essential
- Relevant degree (e.g. in health / social care), or equivalent
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Management/Leadership qualification e.g. NVQ Level 5, or equivalent experience
- Relevant post qualification experience
- Previous experience leading a service comprised of clinicians delivering evidence-based interventions in a community service
- Significant experience of working within services which provide psychoeducational and psychological interventions to CYP
- Experience of working in partnership with education (schools, PRUs, Special schools,
- FE colleges) and/or statutory services
- Knowledge of national policy and guidance relating to public health and early intervention such as Future in Mind
- Held lead responsibility for service delivery against contract KPIs and service level agreements
- Management of contract(s), services and teams balancing delivery, resources and finance against KPIs
- Provided strategic oversight as well as having responsibility for operational delivery
- Experience of working with multiple funders and commissioners to meet service specification/s
- Leading and directing a skill mix team that is made of different roles and competency requirements
- Managing organisational change and transition
- Experience of working within quality assurance and clinical governance frameworks to ensure services, systems, standards of care and practice are safe and effective
- Implementing new models of delivery/products/initiatives and dissemination of learning and best practice
- Experience of delivering evidence-based interventions and approaches with children and young people across a variety of care settings
- Understanding and practical application of the safeguarding agenda via policy, procedure, supervision and practice
- Experience of leading on developing, delivering and evaluating evidence-based holistic care packages
- Performance management of individuals and teams
- Evaluating and analysing activity data to develop future service delivery and planning
- Managing effective contractual and partner relationships
- Working with service users and key stakeholders to shape design, delivery, development and ensure continuous improvement
- Effective budget and resource management
- Experience of meeting targets and deadlines within financial and contractual constraints
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Demonstrate leadership and the ability to delegate and supervise staff whilst being an effective role model
- Recognition and escalation of risk, contributing to control measures
- Planning workload, time management
- Work under pressure and able to manage changing priorities
- Understand need for evidence and statistical data collection, and achieving targets
- Ability to write formal performance monitoring reports
- IT skills
- Team player and a dynamic personality
- Multi-agency/disciplinary working
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and inter- personal skills
- Innovative practice and ability to influence others
- Ability to analyse, evaluate and rationalise data and enable progressive models of delivery and intervention
- Visionary approach to managing change and transition
- Self-aware; positive attitude; flexible and adaptable; solution and business focused; and tenacious
- Has a strong degree of personal integrity
- Ability to assertively engage young people, families and carers
- Access to own transport or evidence of ability to commute efficiently between community venues.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
