Team Manager

Job description

Moving Mindsets Mental Health Support Team - Team Manager

South Cumbria Mental Health Support Team (Barrow and South Lakes)

- Team Manager

Due to recent internal promotion we currently have an exciting opportunityfor a highly motivated person to join Moving Mindsets - covering South Cumbria area as a Team Manager. We are looking for a compassionate leader who can:

• Take the operationallead in a busy therapeutic service

• Line manage and nurture a diverse team of therapeutic staff

• Work with individual strengths to support high quality service delivery

• Work creatively to maximiseservicedelivery

This role is based across South Cumbria covering Barrow in Furness and South Lakes area on a permanent basis and the successful candidate will be responsiblefor managing a team oftherapeuticprofessionals in a therapy-based service for children and young people. There will be an emphasis on:

• Overseeing the smooth delivery of a busy service

• Maintaining active engagement on all safeguarding matters

• Being accountable for service delivery outputs and outcomes

We are looking for someone who is passionate about:

• Children's and Young people's emotional health and wellbeing

• Improving outcomes for children and young people

The successful candidate must have :

• Relevant professional qualification (minimum Diploma/Degree) e.g. Cognitive behavioural therapy, mental health nursing, social work, occupational therapy, education, teaching, psychological wellbeing practitioner, children and young people's wellbeing practitioner, child and adolescent psychotherapy, systemic therapy, interpersonal therapy, counselling
• Appropriate and valid UK professional registration e.g. Nursing Midwifery Council, Social Work England, British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, British Psychological Society, General Teaching Council

• Extensive experience of overseeing operational service delivery

• Experience of overseeing the delivery of therapeutic / support interventions

• A comprehensive understanding of children's safeguarding

• Extensive experience of line management

MHST Background

Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) are a national programme jointly delivered with the Department for Education, NHS England and Health Education England. The programme has three core functions:

• Delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs

• Supporting the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce or develop their whole school/college approach

• Giving timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services, to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education

MHST's support the promotion of wellbeing and good mental health with particular focus on early intervention. They work with existing social, emotional, mental health and wellbeing support within education settings, building relationships with each education setting and with children, young people, parent-carers and partner in the locally system to co-design and evaluate the support offer required.

The MHS teams provide direct therapeutic care to children and young people who show signs of mild to moderate mental health difficulties, alongside supporting education settings with their whole education approach.

For further information, please contact :

Amy Armstrong

[email protected]

Tel:- 07874 795 425

We welcome enquiries from people interested in this role and are happy to facilitate online meetings prior to interviews.

Interviews are to be held on the 30th November 2026. The interview will be face to face and held at the Barrow office.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible

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Pay & Reward Framework

We appreciate our colleagues' dedication and their commitment to delivering excellence in the vital work we do, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values . We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

We are committed to a rounded colleague experience with an approach to both pay and rewards that are fair, attractive, and progressive. This is in support of our strategic ambition to ensure Barnardo's is a place everyone can belong, grow and thrive.

The salary range advertised is in line with our pay principles, for consistency and fairness while recognising the skills and experience applicants bring to the role. Appointing salaries can be discussed further at appointment stage; we do seek to appoint within this range always exercising responsible stewardship.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

About Barnardo's

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.