Area Manager - The Midlands

About The Role

Together we can change children’s lives. At Place2Be, we believe every child should have easy access to mental health support whenever they need it. We create a safe place in schools where children and young people can open up without pressure or stigma; allowing our highly skilled and diverse counsellors to reach children, young people and their families who need us.

You’ve previously led small teams and seen the impact you can make on service delivery. Now it’s time for a bigger challenge! As an Area Manager at Place2Be you’ll be working as part of a co leadership team covering a the Midlands. You’ll effectively line manage the clinical school-based staff ensuring service delivery and safeguarding are of the highest standards. You’ll utilise data to inform and improve service and practice, manage budgetary resources in your service area, nurture and develop talent and build fantastic relationships with the schools you look after and the wider Place2Be community; all of which will enable you to grow your area and demonstrate the impact we can achieve at a local level. Creativity is one of our values and we encourage new ideas and fresh thinking.

You’ll be part of a wider community of Area Managers that will enable you to shape a local service by bringing best practice from across different strands of specialisms. With access to an enormous range of training and development and a pathway to develop and grow a career with purpose, this is your place.

Recruitment Process

As part of your application you will need to answer some shortlisting questions. Please answer these as fully as you can, we recommend using the STAR model. Situation, Task, Action Result.

Closing date for applications: 25th August 2025-Midnight

Interview date: 1st September 2025

Our Benefits

When you work at Place2Be –whether that's in a school, supporting families, providing clinical supervision, or in IT, Finance, or Fundraising –every role can make the difference to a young person. To achieve this, we ask that you bring your best self to your role and our commitment to you, is to welcome you into our community, and help you progress. Because we know that you being at your best, means the best outcomes for the children we support.

Here’s just a few things we have on offer:

• Annual Leave that increases with service
• Comprehensive learning and development to enable you to progress your career
• 5% contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance of four times your annual salary
• A comprehensive employee assistance programme
• Mobile Phone Discounts (EE network)
• Wellbeing days to allow you some ‘you’ time
• Christmas holidays closure period in addition to your annual leave

We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented within our organization.

We are proud to be a disability confident employer and will ask you during your application If you wish to be considered for a guaranteed interview under the disability confident scheme. Under the scheme we commit to offering an interview to disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria as outlined in the job role.

If you have any questions about the scheme, or require any adjustments to help you complete an application then please contact the recruitment team on 020 7923 5050 or email [email protected]

Should we receive a high number of applicants we may decide to close this role early.