Assistant Manager

Lifelink are looking for a new member for their leadership team.

If you are an experienced, enthusiastic Assistant Manager (or have the required experience, skills & aptitude) with existing experience of managing people and service delivery to achieve performance targets and outcomes - then we want to hear from you ASAP!

Assistant Manager

We have a permanent position on offer with a profile of 35 hours per week, delivered flexibly, and with some evening and weekend working with potential on-call responsibility.

Grade 6: (£24,750 - £26,500) p/a pro rata

Additional benefits include generous holiday allowance, contributory pension scheme (6% from employer), cash back health plan, life cover, holiday purchase scheme, and 2 wellbeing days. Our services operate daytime, evenings and weekends and people friendly working arrangements and patterns are available.

Our new Assistant Manager will be responsible for ensuring smooth delivery of Lifelink’s day to day operations. This will include scheduling and managing people and facilities to ensure they are available and ready to meet the needs of our clients. They will support and performance manage a team of staff, develop and maintain local partnerships­, deliver corporate training and community-based workshops and contribute to service delivery and development, amongst other activities.

This is a busy and demanding role with a lot of variety. As such we are looking for energetic, positive, solution focused individuals who have experience in these areas. We expect you to take our local services to the next level by providing excellent local leadership and ensuring our services remain at the leading edge, whilst meeting the needs of our service users, our business partners and our business.

You must have:

- Demonstrable experience of managing staff and service delivery

- A clear understanding of distress, anxiety, stress and mental health issues and the challenges these present to service users

- Educated to degree level/professional qualification in a supervisory or management field (or evidence of equivalent work experience and willingness to undertake ongoing CPD)

- Excellent IT skills and be comfortable with use of mobile technology

- A valid driving licence and access to own vehicle

Ideally you will have:

- Experience of overseeing confidential one to one client support services

- Experience of providing staff training / coaching to improve service outcomes and quality

- Experience of monitoring and reporting around resources and service delivery outputs

Closing date for completed applications is Friday 29th September 2023

Go to https: https://www.lifelink.org.uk/assistant-manager/ for further info and application form.

Web: www.lifelink.org.uk Email: hr@lifelink.org.uk Tel: 0141 552 4434