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Team Manager – Recovery and Wellbeing

Salary: £33,951 per year (£27,528 pro rata)

Hours: 30 per week, over a minimum of 4 days

Location: Brighton & Hove

Closing Date: 29/06/2025

Job Description:

What you’ll be doing:

Southdown is one of the leading providers of mental health services in Sussex.  Our Recovery and Wellbeing Colleges provide an innovative approach to mental health services, using an educational model to support people to become experts in self-management and their recovery.  All college courses are co-produced and co-delivered by peer tutors who have their own experience of mental health challenges, alongside mental health professionals.

As the team manager, this role offers an exciting and creative opportunity to work in a very busy college environment, contributing to the ongoing development and improvement of services to meet students’ needs and aspirations.  You’ll be responsible for the day to day operation of the colleges, working alongside the service manager, peer tutors, students and Southdown and Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust staff.

If you are passionate about mental health, we’d love to hear from you.  We welcome applications from candidates with previous experience such as Peer Tutor, Peer Trainer, Mental Health Specialist, Mental Health Practitioner or Service Coordinator.  However, this is not essential and full training will be provided.

Perks and benefits: 

  • Health cost cash-back scheme: access to our health insurance scheme which covers dental, optical, physical therapies and other medical treatments with the option to add greater levels of cover.
  • Interest-free loans: assistance with larger costs that arise such as tenancy deposits, season travel tickets or buying a car.
  • Access to the Easit Network: discounts and incentives on train, bus and car journeys such as 15% off eligible daily and season rail tickets.
  • Blue Light card: access to discount services for the social care sector with savings across thousands of online shops, restaurants, and high-street vendors.
  • Free advice and counselling service: confidential emotional support and practical guidance from our independent telephone service.
  • 25 days paid holiday plus bank holidays.

Knowledge, skills and experience

What you’ll need for the role: 

  • You’ll need experience working in recovery focused mental health services or in an educational setting.
  • You have excellent organisational, networking and communication skills.
  • You are passionate about mental health. We welcome applications from people with lived experience of mental health challenges.
  • A Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which will be paid for by Southdown.

What would be nice: 

  • Experience supporting clients experiencing mental health challenges, including those in crisis and/or facing complex challenges

Training:

You’ll receive a comprehensive induction followed up with regular training from our award winning in house team.  We’ll help you to gain valuable experience, continually develop your skills and build a great career with the largest provider of housing, care and support in Sussex.

How to apply:

Please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button and fill out our simple one-page application form.

The application closing date is 29 June 2025 and interviews will be held on 4 July 2025 and 11 July 2025.

Please note, if we receive a large number of applications then this position may close before the advertised application closing date. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.

About Southdown

Contact information:

Our online careers page has a list of helpful FAQs that you can view here. If you have any further questions, please get in touch with recruitment via email at jobs@southdown.org

We are a Disability Confident Employer and are fully committed to supporting Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) and welcome applications from all candidates that meet our job specifications. If you feel there is a barrier that potentially prevents you from applying, do get in contact with us, as we are always happy to discuss (or arrange a discussion with the recruiting manager) to explore if any reasonable adjustments can be made to support your application.

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