Description:
Are you a passionate leader ready to make a difference in youth mental health? Jigsaw is seeking a dynamic Service Manager to join our leadership team, ensuring the safe, effective, and impactful delivery of our youth mental health services and programmes. This is your opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of mental health services for young people in our community.
Please note: This is a full time, fixed purpose (maternity cover) contract located in our Dublin City Service.
What You’ll Do:
As a Service Manager, you will work collaboratively with the Clinical Manager in a shared leadership capacity to:
- Drive our Strategic Vision: Collaboratively plan and implement strategies for clinical service delivery, youth mental health promotion, and youth participation, ensuring alignment with local and national priorities.
- Shared Leadership: Lead the team jointly with the Clinical Manager, contributing to decision-making and creating a cohesive, compassionate culture within the service.
- Operational Excellence: Manage day-to-day operations, including local budget management, overseeing efficient processing of referrals and scheduling of appointments for young people, data analysis, and performance evaluation, while ensuring adherence to risk management and compliance policies.
- Joint Stakeholder Engagement: Build and sustain relationships with external stakeholders, ensuring the promotion of the service and youth mental health, seamless referral pathways and strong service integration.
- Youth-Focused Initiatives: Oversee participatory structures like the Youth Advocate Programme and with the youth and community engagement worker, manage a community programme to promote mental health awareness and engagement
What We’re Looking for:
- Previous management experience in health, social care, education, or the non-profit sector.
- A third level qualification (bachelor's degree and/or equivalent) in a business, health (including mental health), community development, education, or social science related area.
- Years of management experience may be considered in place of formal qualifications.
- Experience managing a team in a human service delivery context.
- Proven expertise in developing small local budgets, implementing financial procedures and operational plans.
- Strong interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence, and a collaborative approach.
- A clean driving license and flexibility for occasional evening/weekend work.