Children & Young People Team Lead
Salary: £27,000 – £28,000 FTE per annum (pro rata)
Full Time Hours: 37 per week (some evenings included)
Location: Hereford, Herefordshire
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Monday 1st June 2026 (Midday)
Interview Date: Thursday 4th June 2026
Are you passionate about improving the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people?
About the role
Join ONSIDE as a Children & Young People Team Lead to provide both hands-on service delivery and day-to-day team leadership, supporting a dedicated team and making a direct impact on young people’s lives
This is a dual role combining team leadership and frontline delivery. You will lead and manage a team of Wellbeing Advisors, providing day-to-day supervision, support and motivation, coordinate service delivery across Herefordshire, ensuring high-quality, accessible support, lead the Young Ambassadors programme, supporting youth voice and volunteering opportunities and work with the Deputy Head of Services to monitor performance, analyse data and meet reporting requirements contributing to the development of the Strong Young Minds and Strong Young Minds Reaching Out services.
Alongside your leadership responsibilities, you will also deliver support directly to young people, providing one-to-one support, brief interventions, group work and workshops and supporting children and young people aged 11-18 years old with emotional wellbeing challenges, low-level mental health needs and self-harm and coping strategies.
Please note that this position will be required to work some evening hours within the working week and visiting locations within Hereford, Bromyard and Colwall.
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ONSIDE’s Benefits
- 26 days annual holiday + Bank Holidays
- Pension Scheme
- Company Sick Pay Scheme (after qualifying service)
- Additional Maternity & Paternity Pay (after qualifying service)
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to premium Calm App
- Employee Engagement Forum to ensure our employee’s voices are heard!
- Your ‘Birthday Day’ Off
- Supportive working environment & good work/life balance culture
- Support with continuous professional development
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for someone who, has experience in line management or team leadership and has worked with children and young people in a mental health, wellbeing or youth work setting.
You will need to be able to engage, motivate and inspire both young people and staff and have a strong understanding of mental health, emotional wellbeing and safeguarding for children and young people and are confident in coordinating multi-site or community-based services.
You will be a supportive and approachable leader, who is highly organised, with strong communication and team coordinator skills.
If you are committed to putting young people at the heart of everything we do, we want to hear from you!
Someone like you?
If you embrace difference and champion diversity.
If you are creative in your approach, can think around problems and find new ways to solve them.
If you’re looking for a job that you can be proud of, and passionate about. Please submit your application.
These values run through our entire organisation. ONSIDE is a creative, collaborative community where people feel free to share new ideas or ask for support. If something’s not right, we don’t just change it. We change ourselves too.
Our amazing team of skilled staff and volunteers make a difference to the lives of over 15,000 people a year!
Want to know more?
Please get in touch with Fiona Williams, Deputy Head of Services by email fiona.williams@onside-advocacy.org.uk.
Please also access our guidance on how to apply to ONSIDE on our advert pages.
ONSIDE reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy before the closing date.