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Exciting opportunity to lead young people's mental health initiatives as a Strategic Lead at Mind
Overview
Salary
£52973 - £59368
Location
Mind Cymru Hybrid (Cardiff), National Mind Hybrid (Stratford - London)
Expires
Expires at anytime
Mind is a leading charity driven to address inequities in mental health, focusing specifically on racialised communities, youth, and those experiencing poverty. Our goal is to improve support, system changes, stigma, and equitable partnerships.
As the Strategic Lead for Young People, you will:
- Lead our team to better support young people's mental health, focusing on trauma.
- Manage the Young People's mental health team for our initiatives and programs, including our Youth Voice Network.
- Collaborate with various stakeholders to understand challenges and identify solutions to mental health issues facing young people.
Role requirements include:
- Lived experience leadership, coproduction, and engagement with relevant audiences.
- Oversight and challenge to teams across the Federation to maximise our impact on youth.
This role resides within Mind's Mental Health Equity team, part of the larger Social Impact Directorate, helping to provide intersectional insight into mental health disparities.
When applying, please refer to the role requirements, as shortlisting will be based on the degree to which candidates match the criteria.
About the team As part of Mind's strategy, we have set out an ambition to address the stark and persistent inequalities in mental health access, experience, and outcomes, with a focus on those most at the margins (our equity priorities – racialised communities, young people, and people experiencing poverty). Our equity priorities are the golden thread through all of our equity work. This strategy requires us to focus our external work on four areas – improving support, changing systems, addressing stigma, and building equitable partnerships.
The role This role is a maternity cover and is fixed term until May 2026. As Strategic Lead for Young People, you will lead our work to better support young people's mental health, with a focus on trauma. You will manage the Young People's mental health team to drive development and delivery of our initiatives and programmes focused on young people, including our Youth Voice Network. You will work across the organisation and with local Minds and external partners to understand challenges and barriers to young people's mental health and identify opportunities for Mind to address these, e.g. through partnerships and innovation, collaborating with key stakeholders, internally and externally, to develop and mobilise solutions.
Job requirements You will do this through lived experience leadership, coproduction and engagement with relevant audiences. You will provide oversight and challenge to delivery teams across the Federation to ensure that we maximise our impact for young people.
Benefits This role is located within the Mental Health Equity team within the wider Social Impact Directorate to provide strategic insight and oversight, and ensure an intersectional approach to addressing mental health inequities.
Applications details Please refer to the Job Description while completing your application as candidates will be shortlisted based on how closely they match the criteria in the personal specification.
