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As a Project Coordinator at Mind of the Student, you’ll support the smooth planning and delivery of our mental health programmes in schools and the community. This role is ideal for someone early in their career with transferable experience from roles like sales, business support, education, customer service, or administration who’s now looking for meaningful work.
You’ll coordinate workshops, schedule sessions with schools and partners, manage enquiries, and ensure logistics run smoothly. You’ll also track programme progress, gather feedback, maintain accurate records, and support clear team communication. Strong organisation, attention to detail, and confidence using digital tools (email, spreadsheets, CRM systems) are essential.
We’re looking for someone proactive, dependable, and great at building relationships with school staff, partner organisations, parents, and volunteers. You’ll thrive in a busy environment, manage deadlines well, solve problems positively, and deliver high-quality work.
If you’re passionate about youth mental health and want to use your skills to make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you. This is a remote role with a monthly in-person team meeting in Romford, Essex.
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To equip young people at school, and within the community, with the knowledge, confidence and skills to address their mental health needs.


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Gaddum provides therapeutic support within the CYP Bereavement Therapy Service and the Complex Care Therapy Service across Greater Manchester. Our CYP Bereavement Therapy Service is delivered across Manchester and Salford. Our Complex Care Service is delivered across Salford, Rochdale and Stockport. Our Kentown Support Service will be delivered across Greater Manchester.
Role Purpose:
Working as part of the Gaddum CYP Bereavement Therapy and Complex Care Team, your role will be to provide effective and efficient administrative support to ensure the smooth running of Gaddum’s therapy services. You will be responsible for ensuring that all administration tasks are completed with a high level of accuracy and in accordance with relevant policies and procedures.
You will demonstrate appropriate professionalism and empathy towards clients both face to face and over the phone. A keen eye for detail, excellent organisational skills, and the ability to multi-task and effectively prioritise is key to the success of this role.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
· Processing referrals: adding them to our database as well as our waitlist spreadsheet, sending out therapy agreement emails to gain consent from families, communicating with referrers/other professionals where needed
· Screening referrals: for any unsuitable or high-risk cases, identifying those 16+ to help us build list for trainees
· Completing follow ups where needed - such as awaiting carer response to agreement/consent email, or we are waiting to hear back about something
· Responding to queries from professionals or service users
· Monitoring email boxes and supporting to monitor waitlist
· Completing IA’s with families who are due to start therapy
· Assisting with therapy bookings where needed (may be contacting schools or community venues on behalf of therapists)
· Liaising with professionals and assisting with onward referrals
· Keeping records up to date
· Communicating cancellations/scheduling changes to therapists or clients or both
· Support therapists with collecting feedback from parents/carers
· Attend team meetings, assisting with minutes where possible, helping to share information with the team
· Support with onboarding of new staff/volunteers/trainees, including support for CRM training and access
· Signposting for other services
· Communicate referral decisions to clients and healthcare professionals in line with procedures.
· SilverCloud supporter
· Assisting with data gathering for reporting if needed
· MHSDS submissions
All staff are expected to work within all Gaddum policies and procedures. This role is subject to Basic DBS check.
Our vision is for every individual and community we walk alongside to have equitable health, wealth and self.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.