Night Manager x 2 (Crisis Service Safe Haven)
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Job Location:
High Wycombe - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
6 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Join Our Mission at Buckinghamshire Mind!
Are you passionate about Mental Health and leading an excellent team of crisis support workers
Buckinghamshire Mind is looking for 2 x Night Manager for Crisis Service- Safe Haven.
The Night Manager is responsible for leading the out-of-hours operation of Buckinghamshire Safe Haven across both sites (High Wycombe and Aylesbury) and plays a key role in ensuring safe high-quality trauma-informed crisis support; robust staffing and team work effective multi-agency collaboration and continuous improvement against agreed outcomes and KPIs. The purpose of this role is to provide operational leadership and ensure Safe Haven provides a high quality of service to those who access support.
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Location: Across Aylesbury (Peach Tree House Whiteleaf Centre) and High Wycombe (Buckinghamshire Mind High Wycombe Office) according to Rota and service needs. Regular travel between sites is required.
- Hours: Rota across 7 days 6:00pm12:00am (midnight) on a 8 -week rolling rota a including weekend and bankholidays. Additional 6 hours flexitime per week for daytime working
- Salary: 32000 (FTE) plus enhanced hours payment of 30% on top of normal hourly rate for hours worked between 11pm-12am. This calculates as an actual pro rata payment of 22745.95 including the enhanced hours based on the hours as advertised.
About Us
Buckinghamshire Mind is an independent charity providing trusted mental health services to our communities. We are affiliated with national Mind and are part of a network of over 100 Local Minds. We promote wellbeing and recovery; we prevent mental ill health; we offer talking therapies and we provide support in times of crisis.
Key Responsibilities
The Safe Haven offers a welcoming safe and non-stigmatising out-of-hours alternative to A&E or secondary mental health care. It offers a safe place for emotional support resilience building and person-centered support. Key responsibilities include:
- Oversee the safe effective nightly operation of both Safe Haven sites including rota oversight shift leadership and onshift decisionmaking.
- Line manage Team Leads and Safe Haven staff providing regular supervision coaching and clear objectives as well as lead on recruitment induction and training.
- Represent Safe Haven at relevant multiagency meetings to support coordinated care and service development.
- Produce concise service reports and contribute to funder and SMT reporting; analyse trends to inform improvement actions.
The ideal candidate will have
Significant experience managing services for vulnerable adults in a mentalhealth or closely related setting with proven line management of multidisciplinary or support teams.
- Substantial experience in outofhours crisis work including risk assessment deescalation and decisionmaking under pressure.
- Calm decisive leadership in highpressure environments; excellent judgement on risk escalation and prioritisation.
Why Join Us
Inclusive Employer: We are an Equal Opportunities employer welcoming applicants from all sections of the community including those with lived experience of mental health challenges.
Training and Development: We offer full training and development opportunities to help you grow in your role and further develop your skills.
Supportive Environment: Youll be part of a dedicated team with the opportunity to make a tangible difference in your community.
For details of our culture and our benefits: Buckinghamshire Mind Careers
If you are interested in the role please send your CV and complete the mandatory questionnaire in our application page.
Closing date for applications 22nd March 2026
Buckinghamshire Mind is an Equal Opportunities and inclusive employer. We welcome applications from all sections of the community including those with lived-experience of poor mental health. If you meet all the essential criteria we welcome your application as training and development can be provided to give you further skills. Any offer made relating to this post will be subject to satisfactory references and a satisfactory Enhanced DBS check depending on the role.
*Please note we do not provide VISA sponsorship and unfortunately we cannot employ you if you do not have the right to work in the UK.
Travel expenses will only be paid for journeys that fall outside of the regular commute to and from the work location(s). If the role is home-based all travel will be paid for on expenses.
Key Responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description/ person specification.
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Restaurant Experience
- Kitchen Experience
- Inventory Control
- Hospitality Experience
- Dayforce
- Lean Six Sigma
- Management Experience
- Facilities Management
- Warehouse Experience
- Supervising Experience
- Restaurant Management
- Commercial Cleaning
