Services Manager for Sunderland Counselling Service
Contract Type: Permanent
Role Type: Employment
Hours: Full time
Application deadline:
Based: Sunderland
Salary: £48,526 Per Annum
Salary Type: Salary Scale
Location: Tyne and Wear
Role description: Manager
Sunderland Counselling Services
Services Manager
Hours: 37.5 hours p/w including one late evening.
Salary: £48,526 (mid-point Band 7 Agenda for Change comparable).
Contract type: Permanent subject to a successful probationary period.
Location: Sunderland Counselling Service, 51 John Street, Sunderland.
Sunderland Counselling Service (SCS) is seeking to recruit a full-time Services Manager to help extend the well-established and supportive senior management team of an independent mental health charity and company limited by guarantee. SCS provides a range of services across the North East region offering psychological therapies including counselling and cognitive behavioural therapies to children and adults, as well as access to wrap around support to help support people with mental health difficulties.
The successful candidate will work closely with the Head of Services and another Services Manager to co-ordinate the delivery, monitoring and staff support and leadership across the organisation and deputise for the Head of Services where required.
The post holder will have operational responsibility for elements of the adult counselling services delivered by SCS and have specific managerial responsibilities within the wider range of services delivered by Sunderland Counselling Service. They will support the coordination of operational matters relating to our provision of services, including marketing, premises, health and safety, IT systems and human resources and similarly ensure that any issues relating to volunteer counsellors within the organisation are managed in an appropriate way.
We expect they will liaise closely with other members of SCS Senior Management Team to help support recruitment, training, management and supervision of volunteer and salaried counsellors and in turn will be well supported themselves.
We are looking for somebody who has experience of leading and motivating teams of people, including providing effective line management and leading and delivering HR support to staff members, who has knowledge of talking therapies and has the ability to lead and motivate others to achieve excellence. Applicants must have a suitable and relevant qualification in leadership / management and leadership experience within services which are customer facing and customer focussed.
As an employee of SCS, the new Services Manager receive a salary comparable to a mid-point band 7 AfC salary (£48,526) and will be entitled to our employee benefits including 30 days annual leave plus a pro-rata bank holiday entitlement, generous maternity / paternity and adoption leave, pension scheme and have access to our free 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, Bike2Work Scheme and critical illness cover.
For further information on this role and to obtain the job description and application pack, please visit https://www.sunderlandcounselling.org.uk/vacancies/.
For further details about the post please visit, Vacancies - Sunderland Counselling Service or please contact Leanne Davis, Head of Services at leanne.davis@sunderlandcounselling.org.uk with any questions or to arrange an informal conversation about the position.
All applications for this post must be submitted by 11.59pm on Sunday, 12th January 2025 alongside a completed equal opportunities and diversity monitoring form to office@sunderlandcounselling.org.uk. Applications received after this time will not be considered. Interviews will take place on 20th January 2025.
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