Partnership Manager

Lincolnshire Music Service is seeking an inspirational Partnership Manager to join our dynamic and award-winning team. Due to the retirement of the existing postholder, this is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping music education across the county.

About the Role

As Partnership Manager, you will:

• Lead and develop strategic partnerships to support high-quality music education.
• Work collaboratively and support LMS staff members, schools, cultural organisations, and community partners.
• Drive engagement and participation in music-making for children and young people.
• Contribute to the leadership of Lincolnshire Music Service and ensure delivery of its vision and objectives.

The ability to travel is essential for this role as you will be required to work from multiple locations within Lincolnshire.

About You

We are looking for someone who is:

• Passionate about music education and its impact on young people.
• Skilled in building and maintaining effective partnerships.
• Experienced in project and personnel management and delivering high-quality outcomes in education.
• A strong communicator with leadership qualities and a collaborative approach.
• Autonomous leader who can act on their own initiative and lead by example.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a forward-thinking team committed to inspiring the next generation of musicians.
• Work in a supportive environment that values creativity and innovation.
• Enjoy opportunities for professional development and career progression.

How to Apply

If you would like an open and informal discussion regards this role then please contact Jennifer McKie by emailing musicservice@lincolnshire.gov.uk.

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About the Provider

Lincolnshire Music Service

The award-winning Lincolnshire Music Service provides music opportunities for children and young people throughout Lincolnshire. This outstanding service is the lead organisation of the Lincolnshire Music Education Hub funded by Arts Council England.

We have a fantastic interim opportunity (secondments available for internal candidates) available to drive one of our growing partnerships. If this sort of challenge excites and energises, then you could be wearing our Halo. 

We are on the lookout for a high energy Partnership Manager  inspired by a fast-paced performance driven culture.

This role will help us to lead and drive our partnership within Shropshire, where we operate three facilities, Severn Centre in Highley, Bridgnorth Endowed Leisure Centre, and Craven Arms Community Centre with a fourth facility joining the family in April 2026, Much Wenlock Leisure Centre as part of our growing partnership with 3-18 trust.

Working in leisure is anything but leisurely especially at Halo - an award winning social enterprise, registered charity and leading leisure trust operating 33 facilities across Herefordshire, Bridgend County, Torfaen, Merthyr Tydfil, Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Warwickshire and Wiltshire.

Salary circa £50k per annum, hybrid working - mixture of home and onsite working within the partnership - interim opportunity until end December 2025.

As part of the Senior Operations Team, you will bring commercial experience, innovation and fresh perspective. Ambitious and highly motivated, you will thrive working in a dynamic and diverse environment and have a personal commitment in supporting Halo Leisure and our partners in Torfaen to achieve the mission of ‘Creating Healthier Communities.’

We are looking for someone with a passion for high operational standards and a commitment to service improvement, championing change within processes and people and a drive for profitable growth. You will be instrumental in leading and implementing the objectives of both Halo and the Council in this growing partnership where commercial success is absolutely essential, although you still need to be fully committed to our wider vision to create healthier communities.  

With us you’ll have the opportunity to grow without boundaries. You will be part of our growth and development plans, helping us to thrive and succeed, supported by and empowering a well established and professional leisure operations team.

This crucial leadership role demands experience at a senior level. You will have a proven track record of business analysis and commercial support for strategic projects aimed at delivering a leisure or service operational strategy and facility programming which balances our needs for profitability and community engagement.

If you can offer:

• At least 5 years leadership / senior management experience in leisure, or service sector based facility management.

• A proven track record of delivering business and commercial objectives in an outsourced service led environment.

• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship skills, across local & central government, governing bodies and 3rd sector organisations.

• Evidence of successful business growth and delivering health improvement, social outcomes and increased participation levels in sport and activity

• A sound understanding of local and central government initiatives, such as free swimming and targeted programmes

We can offer ….

• Access to a defined contribution pension scheme (6/6 matched contributions).

• Group Life Insurance.

• Minimum 30 days annual leave plus public holidays.

• Free gym membership, family discounts on membership packages, health cash plans and employee assistance programmes on offer.

• Learning opportunities and company funded training programmes

If you think you can wear our Halo, we’d love to hear from you. Visit https://haloleisure.org.uk/careers for full details and to make an application. For an informal discussion, contact Jamie Bryant, Operations Director on jamie.bryant@haloleisure.org.uk.

https://haloleisure.org.uk/info/about-halo

Closing date : 28th Jan 2026 at 5.00 p.m.

Interview Date: 30th Jan 2026

We reserve the right to close the job advertisement early, should suitable candidates apply.

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Job Description:
Poole Lifecentre Deputy Manager

Hours:

Salary:

20-24 hours per week (negotiable)

  £14.33 per hour equivalent to £27,571 PA (if full-time), plus 6% employer contribution

towards pension

Contract:           Permanent

Main location:   St James’ Church Centre, Church Street, Poole, BH15 1JU

Line Manager:   Poole Lifecentre Manager

About the Project

Faithworks’ Poole base is more than a Foodbank: it’s a “Lifecentre” supporting individuals and families
in crisis.  It offers a safe, welcoming space for both immediate aid and long-term solutions, helping
people regain stability and confidence.

Over half of our guests need just one food parcel to get through a short-term crisis, while one in five
require longer-term, “walk-alongside” support.

Services include:

•  Fresh, dairy, and tinned food (centrally stored at our large warehouse in Poole town centre),

plus satellite locations moving towards “local lifecentre” status.
•  Space for conversation to explore needs and existing support.
•  On-site access to debt advice, financial resilience teams, and partner agencies (e.g. Shelter,

Citizens Advice, LiveWell Dorset, Access Wellbeing, Parent Champions (SENDiass)).
•  Community activities such as shared meals, SMILE lone-parent groups, and links to local

church events.

As a Christian initiative, the Lifecentre operates with generosity, integrity, and grace, upholding
professionalism, safeguarding, and health & safety standards.

The Deputy Manager will assist in the day-to-day running of the Foodbank elements of the Life Centre,
managing relationships with clients, volunteers, partners, referrers, donors, and supporting churches.

Overall Purpose of the Role

The role includes:

•  Supporting the Life Centre Manager in implementing an annual plan
•  Ensuring operations align with Faithworks’ values, ethos and policies
•  Modelling a person-centred team culture in the Life Centre

Key Duties and Responsibilities

1.  With the Manager, create, exemplify and run a trauma-informed, grace-filled and whole-person

project, especially in the main Lifecentre and warehouse. Host the floor, engage with clients, triage
needs, and facilitate de-escalation and relationship building

2.  Manage the day-to-day operations of the Foodbank so that “guests” are supported as needed,

activities are competently carried out by volunteers, budgetary compliance is maintained; ensure
adequate stock levels and the smooth running of food distribution. Effectively organise desk
bookings, and office/building supplies

3.  Operationally, manage, inspire, train and support the team of volunteers (recruiting, where

necessary with the Manager) to ensure their needs are met, and the efficient operation of the
project continues.  Ensure effective lines of communication, and create a grace-filled, empowering
culture.

4.  Ensure that all activities are carried out in a safe and sustainable manner for staff, volunteers and

clients; implementing in a professional way, the safety and safeguarding procedures of Faithworks.
Work closely with the Manager to ensure the Foodbank is fully compliant with all Health and Safety
regulations at all times.

5.  Ensure all referrals are dealt with, prudently and accurately, and with awareness of confidentiality
and client sensibilities; ensure that referral agencies understand their responsibilities and receive
regular information as required.

6.  Oversee and develop partnership relationships in the Foodbank (including SMILE and Faithworks
CMA) to help guests find the support they need, welcoming and ensuring all partner agencies are
known by the local team and understand how they dovetail with the rest of the support.

7.  Develop and roll-out community activities in the Life Centre that will enhance support for guests.

8.  Encourage and exemplify a Christian ethos in the Foodbank that matches the FW values, offering
prayer to the guests and volunteers if desired, and linking guests to local Christian activities as
desired.

9.  Develop a working knowledge of all elements of the project, and deputise for the Manager in their

absence, whether that be annual leave or other periods of absence.

10. Maintain secure databases for volunteers, clients, agencies, recording information in line with data
protection regulations; with the Manager report to quarterly internal review meetings, and into FW-
wide information.

11. Working with the Manager, help promote the Foodbank to supporting churches and relevant
organisations, to the press, to the public, to local businesses and other charities, community
organisations and the Local Authority.

12. Working with the Manager develop positive relationships with those engaged in similar activities,
other local partners, supermarkets, statutory agencies, etc. to encourage increasing supply and
opportunities for development in the area.

13. Whilst prioritising a workload consistent with the requirements of the role, to undertake any other

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Job title:

Impact & Learning Lead

Job purpose:

To deepen the impact of the charity’s grant programmes for public benefit.

Reports to:

Director of Giving

Contract:

Full time

Location:

Bournemouth, Dorset

Salary:

£35,000-40,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience

BENEFITS:

29 days’ holiday entitlement
Hybrid, flexible working arrangements

JOB DESCRIPTION

Talbot Village Trust (TVT) is one of Dorset’s largest place-based funders. Guided by the
social purpose of our founders, we support people and communities across south-east
Dorset to live well. Over the past decade, we have awarded more than £10 million through
over 650 grants to charities and local impact organisations operating across Bournemouth,
Poole, Christchurch, Purbeck, and East Dorset.

Alongside grant-making, we manage a diverse estate that includes the historic Talbot
Village, residential and commercial lettings, woodland, and an urban heath.

We are now developing a long-term, evidence-informed approach to transform the Trust’s
grant giving. As part of our strategic aims, we are extending a recent pilot Strategic
Partnership programme, to enable the Trust to move from reactive grant giving to more
sustainable, impactful grant giving that transforms the lives and opportunities for local
communities in the longer term.

Our overarching ambition is to strengthen learning, insight, and impact, and this new role is
central to achieving that goal.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Role Purpose

The Impact & Learning Lead will help us understand, deepen, and communicate the
difference our funding makes. You will lead on impact measurement, evaluation, and
organisational learning, ensuring decisions are evidence-informed and funding delivers the
greatest possible benefit. You will have experience of social value measurement and of
facilitating knowledge exchange to bridge grassroots action and strategic philanthropy.

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This is a new and pivotal role within TVT, offering the opportunity to shape our approach to
learning from grant-making, support grantees, and enable more effective, preventative,
place-based change.

Key responsibilities

Impact Strategy & Framework

•  Coordinate the design, delivery and refinement of the Trust’s impact and learning

strategy.

•  Translate insights from the grant giving programmes and sector research to inform

strategic recommendations to the Trust’s Board.

•  Work with grantees to develop practical, sustainable impact frameworks, monitoring

processes and data quality.

•  Lead TVT’s own impact measurement initiatives, including the use of theory of

change design and other relevant tools.

Supporting Grant-making & Engagement

•  Promote our various grant programmes particularly to organisations addressing

diverse community needs.

•  Support the development of new initiatives and funding partnerships.

•  Use data-driven approaches to identify and support high-need areas or groups.

•  Contribute to events, stakeholder engagement and strategic reviews.

•  Connect grantees with useful opportunities for networking, training and development.

•  Support the Trust’s Philanthropy Committee and Board with evidence-based

reporting.

Learning Culture & Facilitation

•  Facilitate and contribute to internal and external learning processes, including

reflection sessions, learning events, communities of practice, and peer learning.
•  Promote a culture where insights - including failures - are openly shared and used to

shape future decisions.

•  Commission and manage external evaluations where appropriate.
•  Translate complex evidence into accessible insights for trustees, staff, and partners.

Data, Systems & Reporting

•  Produce high-quality insights, reports and presentations to inform decision making at

all levels.

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•  Oversee data quality, monitoring and analysis, and the development of impact

dashboards or summaries.

•  Review and improve systems to capture, store and analyse impact data.
•  Contribute to sector research networks (e.g., ACF, IVAR) to strengthen internal and

sector-wide learning.

Stakeholder Relationships

•  Prepare content, reports and other key communications targeting messages for

diverse stakeholders at local, regional and national level.

•  Contribute to internal and external communications and campaigns to highlight the

impact of the Trust’s work.

•  Maintain strong relationships with other funders, impact specialists, and statutory

partners to share learning and improve sector support.

•  Work collaboratively across Trust staff teams to deepen impact practices and

communications.

•  Represent the foundation in external networks, working groups or collaborations.

General

•  Attend occasional events outside of office hours.

•  Undertake any other duties reasonably required to support the charity’s activities.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

This role will suit someone who enjoys building trusted relationships and meaningful
co...

Job Title:

Service Manager – Crisis House

Job Location:

Hope House, Chippenham

Reporting to:

Head of Mental Health Services

Hours of Work:

37.5 hours per week, to be worked flexibly including evening, weekend and
Bank Holidays, Sleep ins and be part of the on-call rota.

Main Purpose:-

•  To take responsibility for the day-to-day management responsibility of Crisis House

Provision by facilitating high quality, person-centred services with a focus on integration
with wider system partners.

•  Working with all key stakeholders to ensure that service users receive support appropriate

to their individual needs.

•  Ensure optimal data capture is recorded through our in-house IT system. To support more
detailed analysis and use for compilation of regular reporting to the ICB and other funders
and the future development of the service, as well as capturing statistics.
Impact on wider system partners including reduction of inpatient bed usage and
responsiveness to building pathways with emergency services and 136 suite
•  Support the development of the Crisis House offer over the period of the contract

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Service delivery:-

•  To be responsible for developing the Crisis House service with the support of the Head of

Mental Health Services

•  To include research, business planning and reporting to funding bodies.
•  To feed into a wider system of Mental Health Urgent and Crisis provision across BSW.
•  Organisation, planning and scheduling of staff duties.
•  Direct supervision and assisting staff in the assessment, planning, implementation and
evaluation of care and support using person-centred, trauma informed approaches.

•  To liaise with Managers and other professionals to identify the changing needs of Service

Users and to support access to appropriate services as required.

•  To assess suitability of service users using the established safety conversations and

referral pathways, ensuring equal opportunities.

•  To create an environment for guests to be supported safely and are given the opportunity to

make sense of their experiences, building on agency, skills and resilience.

•  To ensure effective risk assessments/safety plans and support plans are in place for

service users.

•  To respond flexibly to emergencies, this may involve arranging appropriate assistance or

attending to problems out of hours.

•  Working with self-defined crisis is a learning process for all involved, this requires an honest

and transparent approach to service delivery.

•  To work together with other agencies in the pursuit of building a sustainable model of

integrated approaches to management of crisis.

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Finance:-

•  To play an active role in setting budgets, writing of business plans, and taking a lead on

tenders or bids that are appropriate.

•  Supporting the implementation and maintenance of financial income and expenditure

operating within a set budget.

Staff Management:-

•  Manage teams of staff, including responsibility for recruitment, induction, supervision,

appraisal, training and development. To ensure that staff comply with all mandatory and
service appropriate training requirements.

•  To oversee the implementation of staffing rota ensuring a safe staffing level for the service

the service

•  To ensure all staff have a current training plan in line with company policy; that all new staff

are inducted to the company induction procedure and statutory training requirements met.
•  To ensure that your team are providing the appropriate information, advice and guidance to
service users, or support in accessing the appropriate services to do so, on matters relating
to finance, good housekeeping, health, neighbours, safety, security and daily activities and
ensure that this is done in a way that respects dignity, privacy and choice.

•  To ensure that your team are supporting service users in accessing local services and

resources in the community in order to develop independence and fulfilment in all aspects
of life.

Quality Assurance:-

•  To achieve agreed standards of service delivery in compliance with funders expectations/
•  To produce a monthly report on the service, collecting relevant statistical information to

monitor key performance indicators outlined by funding bodies.

•  To ensure co-production through STAR groups (shaping, Teaching and Responding) is a
feature of the service development, recruitment of staff and the planning of care and
support.

•  To develop and review operational policies and procedures of the service, ensuring

compliance with all regulatory requirements.

Health and Safety:-

•  Working with the Compliance Department to be responsible for the health and safety of

Alabaré mental health services.

•  To comply with Alabaré policy and procedures as indicated in the staff and centre

handbooks and other Alabaré literature. To ensure that your staff are also familiar and
working within Alabaré policies and procedure.

•  To be respon...

Sutton Mental Health Foundation

PERSON SPECIFICATION
Sutton Crisis Café Deputy Manager

 ‘E’ denotes essential criteria which will be used in shortlisting, while ‘D’ denotes desirable qualities or factors.

1. KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

•  Experience of engaging positively with visitors (using a person-centred approach) and

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stakeholders involved in their care to form collaborative, warm and empathetic relationships
with diverse individuals leading to positive outcomes

•  Experience of confidently and effectively assessing risks and needs, as well as developing

appropriate risk management plans

•  Understanding of issues facing people in a mental health crisis, and experience of

communicating effectively with people in a mental health crisis to finding safe and positive
ways to ‘hold’ and de-escalate situations. Supporting your staff to do the same and managing
them in an enabling way so they can safely debrief and learn from such experiences

•  Demonstrable experience of working in and helping with the delivery of services for and with

people with mental health and complex needs. (min 1 year)

•  Demonstrable experience of supervising staff and volunteers
•  Understanding of working in partnership with statutory mental health services
•  Experience in responding to and dealing effectively with complaints and managing

safeguarding issues in situ as they arise

•  Experience of positively promoting organisation/service and creating marketing material.
•  Experience of overseeing training programmes/training needs audits etc
•

In managing  and updating policies and procedures

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D

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2. EDUCATION

2.1

There are no specific educational or professional qualifications needed for this post. However, applicants must

have a good level of literacy and be able to communicate with clients, professionals and carers

3. SKILLS AND ABILITIES

3.1

in communicating effectively across cultural boundaries

3.2

in effective time management

3.3

in helping manage a service and working co-operatively as part of a team

3.4

in maintaining the requirements of a confidentiality policy

3.5

in working independently and taking initiative

3.6

in effectively using IT including case management systems, excel and equivalent

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3.7

in speaking and writing fluent English and explaining information face
to face, over the ‘phone and in writing

3.8

in keeping accurate and concise records

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4. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

4.1

Sufficiently healthy and physically able to carry out the duties in the job description. The premises has a lift to
the first floor but some rooms are only accessible by a short flights of (3 or 4) stairs

E

5. OTHER

5.1

Be able and willing to work the hours required, as needed bearing in mind that this service operates 365 days a
year, 7 days a week, in the evenings.

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