[Hiring] Senior Service Manager - Health & Wellbeing @Catch22

Role Description

We are looking for an experienced and values-led Senior Service Manager – Health & Wellbeing to provide operational leadership across a varied portfolio of children and young people’s services, including:

• Substance use
• Emotional health
• Risk and resilience
• Prevention
• Early help
• Wider health and wellbeing provision

Reporting to the Assistant Director, you will:

• Lead and support service managers and senior leads
• Ensure services are safe, high quality, financially sustainable, and focused on delivering meaningful outcomes for children, young people, and families
• Maintain strong oversight of performance, safeguarding, quality, compliance, finance, people management, and continuous improvement
• Take early action where risks or pressures emerge

You will work closely with:

• Commissioners
• Partners
• Internal colleagues
• Senior leaders

The role requires:

• Confident people leadership
• Strong operational grip
• Sound judgement
• The ability to translate strategy into clear delivery plans and improvement activity

This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping high-quality, impactful services that support children, young people, and families to achieve positive outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience of managing children and young people’s services within health, wellbeing, substance use, emotional health, early help, prevention, or related provision
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills
• Financial and performance management experience
• Commitment to safeguarding and quality
• Ability to lead teams through change, innovation, and service improvement

Requirements

• Salary: £50,000 per annum
• Hours of work: Full Time, 37 hours per week
• Contract: Permanent
• Location: Home-based, with travel across the UK
• Closing Date: Closed as soon as appropriate candidates are identified

Benefits

• Catch22 is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
• Safer recruitment practice will be followed and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken
• The post is subject to an enhanced DBS check
• Commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion
• Opportunity to work in a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live