Salary NJC PO 33-35 £36,922 - £38,890 (FTE) – Starting salary £29,937 (pro rata)
30 hours per week – We are flexible to when these hours are worked but postholder needs to work on Tuesday afternoon to attend managers meeting and ideally one weekend day.
LSLCS is a nationally recognised survivor-led organisation. We provide out of hours services to people in acute mental health crisis, who may otherwise end up in psychiatric services, A&E, or other crisis and emergency provision. Our founding service (Dial House) has been running since 1999. We now also have a BAME specific crisis service (Dial House @ Touchstone), a young person’s face to face crisis service (SafeZone); and a helpline (Connect), which includes a specialist service for 11-18 year olds. We also work in partnership with Touchstone in delivering The Wellbean Crisis Cafes, and with Leeds Mind in delivering the Leeds Suicide Bereavement Service, and provide daytime group work to help people cope with their crises. We have recently opened a 24 hour / 7 day a week residential crisis house, and a helpline (Night OWLS) for children and young people across the West Yorkshire area, 8pm to 8am every day.
This is a great opportunity to join a highly regarded, rapidly expanding, multi award winning mental health charity, which provides an alternative, non-medical approach to mental distress. We are looking to recruit an Operations Director to work in a job share role with our current Operations Director. The post holder will have had personal experience of emotional distress.
The role of the Operations Director is to work alongside the Chief Executive Officer and the other Operations Director to provide leadership of the organisation. The post holder will provide management and leadership to LSLCS’s services and will manage and supervise the service managers. They will deputise for the Chief Executive, representing the organisation externally, to ensure that LSLCS retains its high profile and positive reputation. Previous experience within a mental health, charity or a similar setting would be highly advantageous.
Excellent support, supervision and development opportunities will be provided. For an informal discussion about this role, please contact Emma Holmes CEO, at emma.holmes@lslcs.org.uk or on 0113 260 9328.
Closing Date: 12 noon, 10th December 2021
Interview Date: (provisionally) Friday 17th December 2021
To apply for a pack email survivor.led@lslcs.org.uk or phone 0113 260 9328