Closing Date & Time : Monday 15th June 2026 at 17:00
Interviews: To be held week commencing 22nd June 2026
Hours of work: 28 hours per week Monday to Friday (Operating hours 8:00am – 6:00pm) Working pattern to be agreed. Occasional weekends and evenings.
Salary: £35,000- 38,000 (35 hours FTE) pro rata
Based: Keighley Healthy Living, 13 Scott Street, Keighley, BD21 2JH
Start Date: To be discussed
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Keighley Healthy Living is a charity based in the centre of Keighley dedicated to supporting the local community, to improve their health and wellbeing.
Job Purpose:
To lead KHL’s Mental Health Project and other health-related projects, ensuring they are well managed, promoted, delivered effectively and achieve their aims. The post holder will build strong partnerships, oversee monitoring and evaluation, identify opportunities for improvement and future development, work closely with the CEO to support delivery across KHL, and act as a safeguarding lead.
Primary Duties & Areas of Responsibility:
- To lead the delivery, coordination and development of KHL’s Mental Health Connect Project, MAST and other health-related projects.
- To line manage the Mental Health Connect coaches, MAST facilitator and any other relevant staff, sessional workers and volunteers.
- To work professionally with key partners, and other organisations, to develop and maintain strong partnerships and referral pathways, promoting the benefits of joint working practices and overseeing Service Level Agreements for relevant partners.
- To play an active role in identifying and securing additional funding for mental health activities to support this work
- To represent KHL and the MH Connect Project on relevant mental health boards and at meetings.
- To develop robust monitoring tools to ensure data collections, systems, outcomes, impact and learning can be collated, reported and shared.
- You’ll work confidently across a range of digital platforms, including MyMUP, to manage information, streamline processes, and support the smooth delivery of our services
- To work proactively to ensure that KHL’s ways of working and Mental Health Projects are accessible and that diversity and inclusion practices are considered and implemented throughout.
- To co-ordinate associated projects such as Healthy Working Lives, MAST and other work that links to mental health transformation.
- To proactively keep abreast of new developments that may influence the future strategic direction of the charity.
- To work in conjunction with the CEO and management team to adjust, develop and ensure delivery of all functions of KHL
- To act as a safeguarding lead and follow KHL’s policies and procedures, including Safeguarding, Data Protection, Confidentiality, Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Environmental policies, in all aspects of the role
Systems Connection
- To connect statutory and voluntary provision across Airedale and Wharfedale through attendance of relevant meetings and groups whose workstreams could be aligned to the provision offered by the Mental Health Connect Project, in a structured way at a system level.
- To gather and share information to increase the ability of systems to connect to support people living with Mental Health issues.
- To support the development of and changes to mental health service systems that make navigating them easier for people and organisations.
- To ensure systems are connected and clearly communicated in a way that supports easy access and use.
- To make recommendations to strengthen the system where barriers/gaps are identified.
Project Management
- To manage the Mental Health Connect Project and other health-related projects, including MAST, ensuring milestones are met and reports are submitted as required.
- To communicate with funders, key partners and attend relevant steering groups as needed.
- To ensure all projects are delivered in line with national guidance and local need.
- To manage all Mental Health Connect contracts, ensuring all requirements and monitoring are met and manage any partnership issues that may arise
Monitoring, Evaluation and Funding
- To complete and oversee the monitoring process for the Mental Health Connect Project and MAST.
- To develop and implement evaluation processes for each project to measure impact and effectiveness.
- To bring co-design practices into our evaluation methods, to be inventive and current in identifying accessible ways of demonstrating impact for the individual and groups we work with and work with the Communications and Marketing Manager to demonstrate the impact of the Mental Health Connect Project to professionals and the public.
- To identify, input and support funding applications.
Partnerships
- To work with commissioners, funders and key organisations to ensure project requirements are met and to build strong relationships for future funding/development.
- To chair the Mental Health Connect project steering group and attend wider mental health transformation partnership meetings.
- To build and maintain partnerships both locally and district wide.
- To be proactive in developing relationships and partnerships that meet KHL’s strategies and work to be inclusive and embrace the diversity of our community.
Line Management
- To line manage KHL staff and freelance workers linked to the Mental Health Project, MAST and other health-related projects, as well as other relevant staff, freelancers and volunteers.
- To meet with KHL staff at staff meetings, 1:1’s, staff appraisals and Project Planning Meetings.
- To work with the CEO to:
– Ensure staff policies and procedures are up to date and adhered to Manage volunteers, students, sessional staff and apprentices
– Support recruitment of new employees/sessional staff
– Support website and communication materials
– Meet staff and leadership team regularly to ensure all systems are co-ordinated and joined up to work efficiently
Additional:
- Travel across Airedale and Wharfedale.
- To promote the positive and professional ethos of KHL both internally and externally.
- Attend staff meetings, 1:1 meetings and other meetings at the request of the managers.
- Continually strive to improve service quality and bring added value to projects.
- Work as part of a team and develop positive relationships with colleagues.
- To generate and share ideas to develop and improve projects and administrative systems.
- To occasionally work unsocial hours, evening and weekends.
- Support and train volunteers and student placements.
- Carry out any additional duties as required or appropriate to the post and grade.
