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Are you an insight-driven leader with experience of service design and development, CRM systems and data management? Do you enjoy turning evidence into action, building effective processes, and helping organisations maximise their impact? Then join Sported as our Network Services and Data Manager and play a key role in developing and evolving the services, activities, and support we provide to grassroots groups across the UK.
About Us
Sported is a charity that delivers funding, resources, and expert volunteer support to grassroots groups that use sport and physical activity to make a positive difference to people and communities.
Our network of 5000 groups reached over one million people across the UK in 2025–26. Through free support, resources and funding, we help trusted local leaders lower the barriers participation, building stronger, fairer communities and improving health and wellbeing, and opportunities for all.
We are now looking for a Network Services and Data Manager to join us on a full-time, permanent basis, working 37.5 hours per week.
Why Join us?
· A supportive, friendly, engaged team, with a great people first culture
· A salary of £39,393 – £45,020 (dependent on experience)
· 25 days’ holiday per annum plus Bank Holidays
· Two additional wellbeing days per year
· Two paid volunteer days each year
· Up to five days’ paid study leave for self-funded training
· Flexible working arrangements
· A confidential counselling service
· Pension scheme
· Cycle to Work scheme
This role is a fantastic opportunity for a strategic and insight-driven professional with expertise in service design, CRM systems, and data management to join Sported's mission of supporting grassroots groups to create lasting change in their communities.
Here you will have the opportunity to provide leadership to a function with significant potential for growth and development. You'll be instrumental in embedding best practice across service design, establishing robust processes, enhancing data capability, and creating a culture of evidence-based decision-making.
The successful candidate will drive continuous improvement, helping to establish a high-performing, strategically focused function that maximises impact across the organisation.
The Opportunity
This is more than a data role
You'll lead the development of Sported's services, CRM systems, and data strategy, ensuring our decisions, processes, and offer to grassroots groups are driven by insight and evidence.
Working closely with colleagues across the organisation, you'll champion innovation, improve how we use data, and help create exceptional experiences for the grassroots groups we serve.
If you're excited by the opportunity to shape strategy, lead change and maximise social impact, we'd love to hear from you.
About You
• An excellent communicator, able to build positive working relationships with the wider team.
• An effective influencer, able to drive change and embed new ways of working across the organisation.
• A self-starter, able to work independently and under your own initiative.
• A curious mind, able to ask questions and pursue answers.
• A critical thinker, able to assess existing approaches and imagine new ways of working.
• A passion for making a difference to marginalised communities and people.
Please see the job pack, where you’ll find details of roles and responsibilities, and required skills and experience.
The closing date for this role is Midnight on 20th August
Sported is an equal opportunities employer, and we warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, LGBTQ+ and disabled communities, as well as people with lived experience of tackling inequalities, because we value the insight and strength that diverse voices bring to creating meaningful change.
We want you to feel comfortable and supported throughout the recruitment process. If there is anything we can do to help make the process more accessible for you, please let us know.
We want every candidate to have the best opportunity to showcase their skills. That's why we use a anonymous recruitment process and provide interview questions in advance, supporting a fair, transparent and inclusive selection process.
If you wish to apply, please provide an up to date CV, together with a cover letter detailing how you meet the criteria shown in the person specification. You can use experiences gained from work, volunteering and life experiences. We will not consider applications without these two documents. We also ask you to complete an equal opportunities monitoring form, this is not compulsory but we use the anonymous data to help us improve our recruitment practices and ensure our approach reaches a diverse audience.
Registered Charity
21 - 50
Sported is the UK's leading grassroots sports charity. We transform lives and strengthen communities by helping them unleash the power of sport.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Fixed term contract until June 2027 (Maternity cover)
Role based in Greater Manchester
35 hours a week
£35,100-£38,390 per annum
The post-holder will work within Safe Zones in Greater Manchester
The successful applicant will work out of Wythenshawe office but can also access The Children's society offices in Bolton and Wigan if required.
The post holder must be available to work shift patterns, this will include evening and weekend hours.
Benefits include but not limited to:
-36 days' annual leave for full time roles, inclusive of flexible bank holidays, increasing with length of service
-Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
-We match up to 8% pension
-Free counselling service
-Opportunities to develop and widen your skills
-2 days of paid volunteering time per annum to support another part of the organisation
About us: The Children's Society has been helping children and young people in this country for over 140 years. We deliver essential local services that provide safe, trusted support to children and young people during times of significant need.
Our Youth Impact domain creates impact for children and young people. With highly skilled and experienced staff working across England and Wales, we provide direct support to children, young people, parents and carers, as well as conduct research and influence Government to make changes. We also provide training for professionals. Our value driven team change the lives of children in this country for the better - and with your help and expertise, tomorrow we can support even more.
About the role:
Safe Zones service offers , step-down crisis support to young people experiencing mental health crises. These Safe Zones are located in multiple locations, including Bolton, Wigan and Tameside. Access is initially by referral from the Mental health Liaison Team, CYP Crisis Team, and CAMHS
Your role will be :
To lead and co-ordinate the delivery of mental health early help services in Greater Manchester; predominantly ensuring that all elements of service delivery for children and young people are successful and delivered to a high quality against the contract.
In order to be considered for this post you will have to demonstrate that you already have:
Skills
-The ability to act creatively and respond to new and challenging situations
-The ability to act on own initiative, supervise others and coordinate work
-Negotiation and Leadership
-Competent use of IT programmes
-Able to utilise therapeutic models in practice
-The ability to co-ordinate working patterns, including on call rotas
-Can demonstrate lone working experience and aptitude
Work-based Knowledge
-A working knowledge of common mental and emotional health issues that young people face, including current research and evidence bases.
-Issues facing hard to reach young people around access to early help support Has a working knowledge of current mental health support agencies in the local area
-An understanding of current legislation, policy, procedures, and issues relating to safeguarding children and young people
-An excellent understanding and experience of working with young people who may be struggling with their mental and emotional health
The Children's Society runs over 100 local services that help thousands of young people who desperately need our support, and we campaign to get laws and policies changed to make children's lives happier and safer.
Every daywe'rechanging the lives of children in this country for the better - and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more.
Closing date: Midnight on 13th August 2026.
The Children's Society is committed to safeguarding and protection of the children and young people we work with. As such, our safer recruitment process includes a Basic or Enhanced DBS check, 5 years of references, and additional vetting checks relevant to the role. We have a comprehensive range of policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices across all areas of our organisation. In support of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, shortlisting is carried out on an anonymised basis. Personal details are hidden from the shortlisting panel, and candidates are referenced by a candidate number only. As part of this process, we ask that your CV is anonymised before submission - this means removing personal information such as your name, contact details, age, and any other identifying details.
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About Anne Health
Anne Health is a digital healthcare facilitator dedicated to trans+ and gender-diverse communities. We support the delivery of affirming, evidence-based care, including access to therapeutic and clinical support for patients across the UK and beyond. Our service is delivered by a team of independent wellbeing contractors, and we are now looking for an experienced, values-driven manager to support the team.
For more information, please visit our website.
The Role
As Wellbeing Services Manager, you will provide day-to-day support to a growing team of independent, contracted counsellors. Working closely with the Wellbeing Director, you will contribute to governance, protocol development, administrative coordination, and quality assurance across the service.
This is a role for someone who combines experience in therapeutic pathways and counselling governance and processes, with the leadership skills and technological confidence needed to thrive in a fast-moving, fully remote environment.
Key Responsibilities
Counselling practice
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Act as the primary internal escalation point for risk and safeguarding.
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Triage high-risk and complex cases and refer them to the counsellor best placed to support the client.
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Apply trauma-informed, gender-affirming approaches across all areas of practice.
Team support & development
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Provide day-to-day management and operational oversight of the counselling team, ensuring consistent standards of service delivery across the caseload.
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Coordinate admin support for counsellors.
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Coordinate scheduling and mentoring support for counsellors.
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Contribute to the onboarding and initial suitability review of new counsellors joining the Anne Health register.
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Support the Wellbeing Director in building a high-performing, resilient service culture.
Governance & quality
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Contribute to counselling governance processes, policy development, and quality assurance activity.
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Assist in refining, maintaining and improving standards across the wellbeing service.
Platform & technology
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Develop and maintain expert-level proficiency with Anne Health's internal platforms.
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Contribute to platform training and onboarding for other team members where needed.
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Use digital tools confidently to manage records, communications, and counselling workflows.
Person Specification
Qualifications & professional membership
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Minimum Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (completed); higher qualifications welcomed.
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Full BACP membership, or the UK equivalent professional body registration.
Experience
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Experience managing a team of counsellors, including providing internal oversight of service delivery, distinct from the formal clinical supervision counsellors hold independently as a condition of their professional registration.
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Significant, demonstrable experience in transgender and gender-affirming healthcare at a senior level.
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Proven ability to manage risk, safeguarding, and ethically complex presentations.
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Experience in a mentoring or counselling lead capacity.
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Familiarity with the unique needs of trans+ and gender-diverse people across a range of presentations.
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Applicants must have the right to work in the UK and must be based in the UK for the duration of their employment. This is an employed role and cannot be undertaken from overseas.
Skills & attributes
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Strong leadership skills with the ability to support and mentor others in a remote environment.
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Confident and competent with technology, including case management platforms and digital communication tools.
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
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Able to work autonomously and exercise sound clinical judgement under pressure.
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Committed to inclusive, affirming, and anti-discriminatory practice.
Desirable Experience & Specialist Skill Increments
The following qualifications and areas of experience are particularly valued at Anne Health:
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Trauma-informed practice or formal trauma therapy training.
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Hypnotherapy qualification.
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Neurodiversity experience or training (autism, ADHD, and related areas).
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Deeper knowledge of LGBTQ+ wellbeing, healthcare, or community support.
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Governance, service development and/or quality assurance experience.
What We Offer
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A meaningful role at the forefront of trans+ healthcare globally.
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A fully remote position with a supportive, inclusive team culture.
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Salary of £40,000 per annum.
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Remote working (work from home).
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35-hour working week with standard Monday to Friday hours.
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28 days holiday (including bank holidays).
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Pension contributions.
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Employee Assistance Programme.
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Access to Anne Health services for you.
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All equipment and software required for the role.
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The chance to shape and grow a specialist wellbeing service.
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Opportunities for CPD and professional development.
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The chance to be part of an organisation genuinely committed to accessible trans+ healthcare.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK and must be based in the UK for the duration of their employment. This is an employed role and cannot be undertaken from overseas.
How to Apply
Submit your CV and a cover letter explaining why you're interested in this role and how your experience meets the requirements outlined above to our HR Portal Breathe. Files must be saved as PDF and labelled with your name and the role you are applying for.
Closing date: 5pm Monday 10th August
Interviews: Online w/c Monday 17th August
Start date: ASAP
Anne Health is committed to diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We particularly encourage applications from trans+ and non-binary people.
Non Charity Employer
21 - 50
Anne Health is a gender-affirming healthcare support service helping trans+ people of all ages access safe, expert care.