Service Manager: Children & Young People Team
Location: Hybrid working with 2 days in our Nottingham office
Salary: £31,484.01 pa FTE, £25,527.58 actual salary for part time hours
Hours: 30 hours per week, fixed term until December 2026
About the role
Working at equation means being part of a dynamic and passionate team, dedicated to creating a world free from domestic abuse, sexual violence and gender inequality.
Join Equation’s dedicated and highly skilled Children and Young People (CYP) team, a passionate and experienced group committed to creating safer futures for young people affected by domestic abuse. As CYP Service Manager, you will play a pivotal leadership role—guiding a motivated and enthusiastic team, driving service innovation, and ensuring our work continues to make a powerful and lasting impact across Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire.
Working closely with the Head of Service, you will help shape strategic direction, develop high-quality practice, build strong partnerships and champion the voices of children and young people. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a well-established, impactful team and contribute to real, positive change in local communities.
What we’re looking for
We are looking for someone who is confident, proactive and committed to delivering high-quality services for children and young people. The ideal candidate will be an inspiring leader who brings positivity, compassion and a solution-focused approach to everyday challenges. You will value collaboration, support others to achieve their best, and be able to make clear, child-centred decisions in a fast-paced environment.
You will contribute:
- Strong and confident leadership that motivates and supports an experienced and dedicated team
- A calm, professional approach to managing complex and challenging situations
- A commitment to equality, inclusion and amplifying the voices of young people
- A proactive mindset that drives improvement, innovation and excellent practice across the CYP workstream
How to apply
Applications can be made via our recruitment portal. Apply here. For any questions, please email admin@equation.org.uk. CVs cannot be accepted.
Closing date
9am on Monday 2nd February 2026. Interviews will be held on Friday 13th February 2026.
Safeguarding
Equation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and to work in accordance with our safeguarding policies and procedures.
The successful candidate will be subject to safer recruitment checks including an Enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references covering the past five years, and completion of our safeguarding disclosure questionnaire.
This post involves regulated activity with children and vulnerable adults.
Equation operates a zero-tolerance approach to any form of abuse, discrimination, bullying, harassment or exploitation. We are dedicated to creating a safe environment where everyone we work with feels protected and able to speak up if they have concerns.
About us
Our goal is for everyone to have equal, healthy relationships free from domestic abuse. This is front and centre of everything we do. We run education programmes with young people in schools, training for professionals and behaviour change programmes, as well as raising awareness of where to get help and support. We also run a helpline and support services for men and LGBTQ+ people experiencing abuse living in Nottinghamshire.
Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
We work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture where all colleagues feel valued and encourage applications from all under-represented groups, particularly those from disabled, LGBTQ+ and diverse and minoritised backgrounds.
We believe that equity, diversity and inclusion improves the health, wellbeing and development of our colleagues and helps to ensure everyone feels valued. We know that when diversity, inclusion and wellbeing are prioritised, we are happier, healthier and can achieve more.
Wellbeing and benefits
We offer a range of benefits to our team members to ensure wellbeing remains a top priority. Work-life balance is important to us so we have family friendly policies, flexible, hybrid working options and an incremental annual leave allowance.
These include:
- Flexible and hybrid working for suitable roles
- Supportive flexitime and toil arrangements
- 26 days holiday plus bank holidays, rising to 31
- Clinical supervision is available for all front life staff
- Free annual eye test
- Sick pay, compassionate leave and special leave
- Expenses and mileage paid
- Progression opportunities
- Family friendly leave policies including maternity, adoption and parental leave. Carers leave, and fertility treatment leave.
- Auto-enrolment to People’s Partnership pension scheme (salary dependent) with an employer contribution of 5%. Further 3% is automatically deducted from monthly salary.
Ongoing development
We’re committed to providing development opportunities for our whole team. We welcome people with a wide range of skills and experiences, as this allows us to be creative and provide the best support for people experiencing domestic abuse.
To support this, we have a robust induction and development programme available to the whole team, throughout your career here at Equation.
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