Deputy Manager, Wellbeing Specialist Services

What You'll Do: - Leadership Excellence: Lead, inspire, and effectively manage a team of professionals to deliver exceptional mental health support and interventions. - Innovation and Empowerment: Channel your passion into providing evidence-based interventions, elevating the mental health and emotional well-being of the people we serve, while opening doors to life's possibilities. - Collaborative Leadership: As a key representative, you will engage in external meetings, fostering vital partnerships with local mental health services, including primary and secondary mental health services in Swindon. Why Join Us: · Impact Matters: Join a team where your work directly transforms lives and contributes to a healthier community. · Personal Growth: We offer professional development opportunities that will enrich your career and help shape the future of mental health services in Swindon. · Collaborative Culture: Work alongside like-minded individuals who share your passion for making a meaningful impact. Together, we can build a brighter, healthier future for Swindon. Your leadership can make all the difference. Key Responsibilities · Co-lead and develop your team in partnership with the Service Manager in delivering recovery-focused, high-quality, safe and person-centred care, delivering great outcomes for people using services. · Informing the future direction and development of the Swindon Wellbeing Services including working closely with Directors and Commissioners internally and externally of the organisation. · Champion innovation and co-lead the implementation of enhancements to services, and support the implementation of change, best practice and continuous improvement. · Establish effective working relationships with key referrers including the Primary Care Networks and Secondary Care Services in your locality, facilitating meaningful two-way dialogue with key stakeholders. · Understand and build upon local assets and resources, to enable holistic and flexible place-based support structures that are responsive to local needs. · Ensure all staff are supported and developed through on-the-job coaching, individual supervision, group supervision and appraisals, identifying and promptly addressing learning and development needs. · Produce regular outcome reports demonstrating the effectiveness of the service and highlighting gaps in provision. · To be involved with the recruitment of new staff including participating on the interview panel and leading on the inductions of new Swindon staff. · To oversee the recruitment of volunteers, including participating on the interview panel and leading the induction. · The role will include being on call based on a rota system to provide support to staff in services across Swindon & Gloucestershire Mind when required. · To attend meetings in relation to the Sanford House building and meetings relating to contracts. · To conduct risk assessments in relation to service areas, ensuring the services are using the Mental Health Triage Scale effectively and appropriately · To investigate any incidents reported by staff or people accessing services and follow up with recorded outcomes following S&G Mind policies and procedures · To explore complaints made to the Swindon SBC wellbeing contract and follow the relevant procedures and policies. · To undertake investigations in line with relevant policies e.g., complaints policy, HR investigations. · To ensure all staff are assessing risk and that risk is managed appropriately in line with the persons needs and the policies/procedures of the service. · To ensure that all lone working arrangements are in place and always followed. · To act as the Safeguarding Lead for adults and children within the Swindon Wellbeing Service · To act as the Health & Safety Officer within the Swindon Wellbeing Service.

Location: SN1, Swindon,, GB

Posted Date: 10/31/2025