Area Manager - England South and East

Area Manager – England South and East

We are recruiting an Area Manager who will be forward-thinking and values-driven and will lead the strategic development and delivery of PAPYRUS’ Community Services across England South and East.

What you will do:

- Effective leadership of PAPYRUS strategy in your Area
- Ensure that PAPYRUS is represented in your Area at appropriate local and regional Suicide Prevention groups and bodies
- Manage Service Delivery in your area
- Ensure data is collected and recorded properly to enable impact demonstration and business development
- Develop and deliver a strategic plan for Community Services in your Area
- Build and sustain good relationships with commissioning bodies in respect of your Area
- Drive the effective performance of the Area by providing leadership which sets high expectations for staff, addresses development needs and tackles any poor performance effectively

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Bachelor’s degree level qualification or equivalent professional qualification in Leadership, Management, Health, Social Care, Social Sciences, Education, Business Development, Community Work, or Public Health
- Proven experience of building, managing and enabling a successful team, supporting their development, and managing their performance
- Experience of identifying new approaches to underpin strategy and progressing new opportunities and translating these into sustainable, funded projects in the community
- Previous experience of preparing a budget, securing funding for projects/programmes and having financial accountability for successful implementation
- Foster and cultivate opportunities for funded work on a sustainable footing
- Awareness of the issues around safeguarding and how these can affect young people and adults at risk
- Ability to consider equality, diversity and inclusivity in all your decisions and actions

Please visit the careers site for the full and person specification for the role.

Salary : £48,226 per annum (SCP 37) progressing by increments to £52,413 per annum (SCP 41)

Hours : 36 hours per week

Location : Home based in South and East England

Contract : Permanent

Benefits : You will receive 28 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time workers), hybrid and flexible working arrangements, an attractive pension scheme, Simply Health membership, enhanced sick pay and enhanced parental pay. Please visit our website for more details.

Closing date : 7th December 2025

We reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier if we receive sufficient applications so, please submit your application as soon as possible.

PAPYRUS is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in employment and its recruitment policies are designed to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of age, disability, gender re-assignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

PAPYRUS is committed to safeguarding all children, young people and adults at risk that interact with the organisation. The organisation recognises its responsibility to safeguard the welfare of these vulnerable groups by a commitment to procedures to protect them. The charity expects all staff and volunteers to fully support and promote these commitments.