Communities and Development Manager – Wales

Hope and Healing is a five-year project funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. Through the project, we’re exploring new ways of putting community and relationships at the heart of mental health support.

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The Communities and Development Manager – Wales will play a key role in our communities-based and system-changing work in Wales. You’ll also provide project management across this work, overseeing delivery and ensuring strong compliance and safe working.

You’ll support colleagues to deliver our Communities of Hope work, using this as a starting point for developing and delivering our work with systems. You’ll be skilled at developing relationships with stakeholders at different levels of the system, including being able to offer challenge and work alongside people to create change.

You’ll lead our local and regional Hope Academy work in Wales, drawing on support and expertise from colleagues in Platfform. You’ll bring an understanding of how to work with people in services and systems, bringing a relational and trauma-informed approach. You’ll have experience in providing support to professionals that can be applied to Hope Academy e.g. designing and delivering training, communities of practice or reflective practice. xwzovoh You’ll be skilled in drawing on research and evidence to shape work, and in putting theory into practice.