Wellbeing Team Lead

Full Time Hours: 37 per week (some evenings included)

Location: Hereford, Herefordshire

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: Monday 1 st June 2026 (Midday)

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.

Learn More About Our Work

To learn more about the work we do please visit:

• 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!
• 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.

ONSIDE reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy before the closing date.