If you’re an experienced leader passionate about improving the lives of others through the provision of mental health, housing, and domestic abuse services then this is an exciting time to join the Inspire North Group!

We are a forward-thinking, growing organisation with services across Yorkshire and the Northeast. Our values are at the heart of all we do. We are bold in our ambitions and firmly believe we can make change happen.

As Group Director of Operations, you will be a key member of our friendly Senior Leadership Team and be responsible for the delivery of efficient, high-quality services.

We are looking for a creative and strategic thinker, who can build effective relationships, work at pace and lead in implementing innovative and pro-active solutions.

We want you to be your true and authentic self and play a key role in helping shape our future, by continuing to develop Inspire North’s well-earned reputation for being a first-class service provider and drive forward our anti-racist strategy.

Some of the many benefits of the role include: flexi-time, ability to mix home and office working, great colleagues and the opportunity to make the role your own.

We aim for our workforce to reflect the diverse and exciting region we serve and would encourage applications from groups who are marginalised and racialised.

We are seeking an Operational Manager for Healthy Minds (Calderdale Wellbeing), a user-led mental health charity working across Calderdale. Through a range of educational and supportive activities, we aim to help people have better emotional wellbeing by understanding their experiences and finding what works for them to have healthier, happier lives. 

Working closely with our Chief Officer and senior management team, as well as the staff and volunteer teams who deliver services, this is a core role within the organisation.  The Operational Manager oversees development and delivery of our Time Out and Roshani services, and manages key functions that support frontline delivery: communications, facilities, and administration.

Healthy Minds is a well-established organisation with a strong presence in Calderdale’s mental health system.  The Operational Manager has a key role in ensuring the organisation is equipped to deliver quality services now and into the future, meeting the challenges of an often demanding environment.

Could this be you?

You will:

• Have a solid track record in a supervisory / managerial role
• Have a good, pragmatic understanding of working in the voluntary / community sector
• Be a creative and practical problem-solver who engages the team to find solutions
• Have a good understanding of mental health recovery and maintaining emotional wellbeing
• Have experience in support work, group work, community development, advice or similar roles
• Value and respect people’s personal and professional experience

Healthy Minds seeks a suitably experienced Business Development Manager to put strategy into action as we recover from the impact of the pandemic and shape our future.

Healthy Minds is a well-established, mature organisation with a strong presence in Calderdale’s mental health system.  As part of the community mental health transformation programme, we are in a period of change and growth, bringing new opportunities and challenges. 

The Business Development Manager is a new post in Healthy Minds to increase capacity at this important stage in the organisation’s journey.

The right person for this role will have a thorough understanding of the voluntary sector and a solid track record of service development.  They will have extensive experience of shaping successful funding bids and maintaining relationships with funders and commissioners.

A strategic and creative mindset is essential, looking ahead and adapting to local, regional and national developments that bear on Healthy Minds’ work.  This role is about strengthening our role as a key provider in the mental health system now and securing its position into the future, anchored to the core values that make Healthy Minds what it is.

This will be a broad and varied role encompassing organisational management, strategic development and public-facing community engagement.  The successful candidate will lead on such actions as revitalising Healthy Minds membership, improving inclusion and diversity, and income diversification; they will work closely with colleagues, including volunteers and the management committee, and with local communities, to ensure that we continue to deliver on our mission to improve the emotional health and wellbeing of Calderdale. 

• Commercial Permanent Head of Finance Business Partnering
• Social Healthcare Not for Profit Organisation based in Leeds

About Our Client

St Anne's is a successful social care and housing provider operating across the North of England, having grown from strength to strength over the last 50 years, now supporting over 1,600 adults with learning disabilities, challenges of poor mental health, homelessness, and substance misuse.They are committed to enabling people to live their best life and strive to make a difference every day.Having this year launched our new 5 year strategic plan some of our key areas of focus are on delivering further growth, providing excellent service delivery and ultimately enabling our clients to live their best life. All of which needs to be done in a financially sustainable way which represents value for money for St Anne's. It is therefore a great time to join St Anne's and the finance team who play a key role in supporting the delivery of this strategy as the Head of Finance Business Partnering.The role holder will lead and further develop the finance partnering and planning team, providing commercial and financial support to key stakeholders, driving actions forward and ultimately delivering better financial and commercial performance.The role holder will partner across the organisation, but in particular supporting the operations team to improve overall service performance, driving improvements in income, and ensuring the cost base is as efficient as possible. As well as providing financial leadership and supporting the business development team on tenders and contract reviews.The role holder will similarly lead the budgeting and forecasting processes, building up stretching but realistic budgets in detail with full engagement and buy-in from key stakeholders.The role holder will lead on key initiatives to further improve financial performance and understanding, providing a key source of support for the CFO from a commercial and analytical point of view.The role will require you to think strategically but also to be hands on, directly driving performance and action as well as being a source of support for the team.

Job Description

As the Head of Finance Business Partnering, you will build strong relationships across the organisation at all levels, building trust, credibility and rapport as the leader of the finance partnering and planning team. Through this you will provide financial insight and support decision making such that the optimal financial performance is achieved at St Anne's. You will do this by:
 

• Lead and further develop regular and effective financial performance reviews with the operations team, driving action to improve financial performance, particularly focusing on deficit services and those tracking behind budget.
• Provide financial and commercial support for business decisions, quantifying and evaluating proposals, ensuring expected returns are achieved. Influencing and adapting plans with stakeholders by supporting and challenging them in an appropriate way.
• Directly drive income by negotiating and/or re-assessing fee rates with commissioners and other funders, alongside or on behalf of the operations team, in both a structured and ad hoc basis, as needed.
• Indirectly drive income through supporting fee costings, running the annual fee uplift programme and by providing financial responses in tenders.
• Support the business in controlling and ensuring the most efficient use of costs, for example, through the effective review and management of hours and payroll spend, as well as non-payroll spend.
• Develop and deliver in depth analysis to the business to make further recommendations around how financial performance can be improved.
• Lead an effective and timely end-to-end budgeting process, building the budget bottom-up, working closely with operations and other key stakeholders to ensure there is engagement and buy-in to the budget targets and ultimately gaining sign-off for the budget.
• Lead and develop the finance business partners in such they are equally able to support their stakeholders.
• Coach and educate the operations team in terms of financial understanding to help them to improve service performance.
• Provide ad hoc financial support to the operations team and other stakeholders as needed.
• Provide ad hoc support to the CFO as needed.
• Provide financial leadership across the broader finance team, alongside the Head of Finance as appropriate, ensuring the team works collaborative and delivers on the overall finance department goals and objectives.

The Successful Applicant

Essential criteria:

• Experience of working in a fast-paced finance business partnering role with a commercial and pragmatic outlook.
• Strong leadership and influencing skills, both verbal and written, with the emphasis on taking ownership and achieving results.
• A good relationship builder, who is able to build rapport and work collaboratively across all levels of the organisation. Equally is comfortable with both supporting and challenging key stakeholders in a constructive way.
• Action orientated, a good negotiator who is able to take action and drive decisions forward that will improve the financial performance of St Anne's.
• Strong analytical and interpretation skills with a proven track record of making commercial judgements.
• Organised and thorough, comfortable operating both strategically and operationally being hands on where needed.
• Able to coach and educate non-finance stakeholders, explaining complex financial issues in a simple and easy to understand way.
• Resilient and flexible, is able to deal with contentious issues and ever changing and competing priorities.
• Advanced Excel and other Microsoft office skills.
• Has a willingness to travel to support key operational stakeholders across the North of England as needed.
• Fully qualified with a recognised accounting qualification (CIMA/ACCA/ACA).

Desirable criteria:

• Experience of working in the social care or health care sector.
• Experience of leading and developing people.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced multi-site organisation.
• Degree educated.
• Full UK driving licence.

What's on Offer

£54,000-£56,000 + £3,000 car allowance + 32 days and 8 bank holidays + pension of employer 8% employee 5% + Leeds based + permanent role + 37.5 hours + flexible working available

Where specific UK qualifications are required we will take into account overseas equivalents. All third party applications will be forwarded to Michael Page.

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We are seeking an experienced Team Leader to shape changes in how mental health provision is developed in Calderdale as part of the national Mental Health Transformation plan. This is an exciting, 2-year post in which you will be responsible for the development and operational management of a new team of Emotional Health and Well-being workers, who will be employed by Healthy Minds while being recruited from, and working in, local communities as part of a new trailblazing model. The postholder will work on behalf of the wider Calderdale system and report to the Transformation Calderdale Programme Manager. Local systems in Calderdale are committed to transforming adult and older adult mental health services by 2023/24, in line with the NHS Five Year Forward View and the NHS Long Term Plan.

Transformation in Calderdale is part of a bold ambition to develop an integrated and holistic mental health offer at a neighbourhood level, working collaboratively with our communities and stakeholders to develop local mental health hubs. In this role you will work with partners and community networks across Calderdale to grow partnership working between Healthy Minds and other VCSE organisations, NHS, Local Authority, Primary care networks and GP’s. The Team Manager will be responsible for the successful delivery of the operational aspects of the programme, recruiting and leading a team of workers centered around Primary Care Networks while being closely aligned with Healthy Minds services.

Healthy Minds (Calderdale Wellbeing) is a user-led mental health charity working across Calderdale that helps people have better emotional wellbeing by understanding their experiences and finding what works for them to have healthier, happier lives.

Could this be you?
You will:

• Have a solid track record in a supervisory / managerial role
• Have a good, pragmatic understanding of working in the voluntary / community sector
• Have experience of building links between community and statutory provision
• Have experience of innovation and the development of provision
• Be a creative and practical problem-solver who engages the team to find solutions
• Have a good understanding of mental health recovery and maintaining emotional wellbeing
• Have experience in support work, group work, community development, advice or similar roles
• Value and respect people’s personal and professional experience

If you are passionate about making a difference and interested in this exciting role then this could be the opportunity for you.

Hours: full-time (37.5 hours per week).  This is a two-year, fixed-term post.

Salary: £27,809 annual + 5% pension contribution

We are recruiting a City Hub Lead to join our existing team and work with us in developing our ‘City-wide movement building’ work, as part of an exciting, city-wide project funded by the National Lottery’s Climate Action Fund, called Climate Action Leeds.

About Climate Action Leeds

We are living in a time of emergency. It is a time of unprecedented crises and challenges - but it is also a time of hope. Leeds has declared a climate emergency, and we are beginning to see changes - but not fast enough, not bold enough, not deep enough.

To address this, we need to organise, join forces and put forward a plan that works not only for the climate, but for people and communities. That’s why Leeds Love It Share It is looking to grow a team of people who are committed to tackling the climate emergency through big and bold community-led action with climate justice at its heart - people who can connect, support, guide and mobilise individuals and communities across the city.

Job overview

This role is part of Climate Action Leeds' Work Package 2 – City-wide movement building. The successful applicant will lead the development of the City Hub - both online and in a physical space in Leeds, co-design and ensure successful delivery of the quarterly Programme Assemblies and bi-annual Climate Assemblies, and ensure that the wider programme activities of the Doughnut Economy group, transition partners, and community hubs are successfully integrated into the events programme and City Hub activities. The City Hub Lead will also take an active role in supporting the Strategy Lead to manage and guide the work of the wider team, represent work package 2 in the Partnership Board and liaise with other project partners and the National Lottery.

We are looking for someone who already has excellent contacts and profile across Leeds, and an established track record of participation in climate action across the city. The successful applicant will have excellent and proven event organising, facilitation, and project management skills that can be directly applied to taking forward the work of Climate Action Leeds.

The successful applicant will act as a freelancer with Leeds Love It Share It on behalf of Our Future Leeds, and work as part of a team of six other staff members and many more volunteers and partners.

This post is 1 day per week and can be undertaken flexibly.

Key outcomes for this role in the next 12 months will be:

• Establishment of a physical City Hub, either as a pop-up or permanent space
• Establishment of the online City Hub information management system
• Co-design of workshop formats to support the work of the Doughnut Economy group and Transition Partners
• Co-design, development and delivery of the quarterly Programme Assembly, with excellent participation of all stakeholders
• Co-design, development and delivery of the bi-annual Climate Assembly, with excellent participation of stakeholders from across the city and across sectors and themes
• Demonstration of excellent staff support, supervision and development
• High profile leadership and partnership building for Climate Action Leeds across the city
• Strategic partnership building across the programme

Duties and responsibilities

• City Hub development
• Strategic support
• Team development
• Events

For more details on the role and organisation please see the background info section in the Application Pack. Deadline for applications is midnight Thursday 11 November 2021.

We are recruiting a Strategy Lead to join our existing team and work with us in developing our ‘Movement Building’ work, as part of an exciting, city-wide project funded by the National Lottery’s Climate Action Fund, called Climate Action Leeds.

About Climate Action Leeds

We are living in a time of emergency. It is a time of unprecedented crises and challenges - but it is also a time of hope. Leeds has declared a climate emergency, and we are beginning to see changes - but not fast enough, not bold enough, not deep enough.

To address this, we need to organise, join forces and put forward a plan that works not only for the climate, but for people and communities. That’s why Leeds Love It Share It is looking to grow a team of people who are committed to tackling the climate emergency through big and bold community-led action with climate justice at its heart - people who can connect, support, guide and mobilise individuals and communities across the city.

Job overview

This role is part of Climate Action Leeds' Work Package 2 – City-wide movement building. The successful applicant will lead the overall strategic direction of the work package, including strategically supporting the overall movement building approach, supporting the development of team members, building relationships across the city, engaging with partners and troubleshooting across the programme, and leading a programme of research to support Climate Action Leeds. We are looking for someone who already has excellent contacts and profile across Leeds, and an established track record of participation in climate action across the city. The successful applicant will have excellent and proven research and leadership skills that can be directly applied to taking forward the work of Climate Action Leeds.

The successful applicant will act as a freelancer with Leeds Love It Share It on behalf of Our Future Leeds, and work as part of a team of six other staff members and many more volunteers and partners.

This post is 1 day per week and can be undertaken flexibly.

Key outcomes for this role in the next 12 months will be:

• Successful leadership of the city-wide movement building work package
• Leading a programme of research work in collaboration with work package staff to develop a doughnut economics City Plan for Leeds
• Support for an excellent programme of training and the emergence of a City Hub
• Demonstration of excellent staff support and development
• High profile leadership and partnership building for Climate Action Leeds across the city
• Strategic partnership building across the programme

Duties and responsibilities

• Relationship building
• Strategic support
• Team development
• Research

For more details on the role and organisation please see the background info section in the Application Pack. Deadline for applications is midnight Thursday 11 November 2021.