Substance Misuse Service Manager

You have significant experience of direct client work in an alcohol, drug or mental health setting and are used to recruiting, line managing and supervising staff. All you need is the perfect environment to put your skills to great use. Welcome to Aquarius as a Substance Misuse Service Manager.

As Service Manager, you will be part of a fantastic team of dedicated staff who thrive at being brilliant at supporting the clients of Solihull. You will be working alongside managers from BSMHFT, Better Together Solihull and Welcome, managing a partnership-led substance misuse service. The service is for adults, young people and family members from the Solihull borough. The SIAS partnership has been in place for more than 10 years and has a very good reputation for the quality of the service it provides.

You will:

• Manage certain projects within the SIAS partnership and ensure the service is delivering on KPIs and within budget
• Work closely with the Senior Practitioner delegating operational duties and overlooking our key projects
• Work alongside commissioners and report around service delivery
• Represent Aquarius and SIAS in many forums and in front of different stakeholders and partner agencies.

To succeed you’ll have:

• Financial planning and budgeting experience
• Knowledge of staff management and development
• Project management skills and an understanding of HR processes relating to recruitment and retention
• Multi-tasking skills and be IT/computer literate
• Great communication skills

In return for your skills and enthusiasm, this role comes with some great benefits and excellent training and development opportunities including the opportunity to develop your management skills and the option to complete your Level 5 in Operations Management. Benefits include:

• 32 days holiday + bank holidays
• Cultural celebration day
• Access to blue light card discounts
• Flexible working

This permanent full-time role requires the post holder to work 37 hours per week.

We are committed to increasing our diversity and we welcome applications from those with lived experience.

This is a rolling recruitment process. Candidates will be interviewed as and when they are shortlisted. 

Learning and development is important to us, and we are pleased to be able to offer a wide range of apprenticeships. We hire apprentices into specific roles as well as offering apprenticeships to the workforce. Anyone can apply to undertake an apprenticeship relevant to the role as long as they are in a permanent post and have successfully passed probation.

Aquarius was a subsidiary of Richmond Fellowship, with both organisations being part of Recovery Focus, a national group of charities highly experienced in providing specialist support services to individuals and families living with the effects of mental ill health, drug and alcohol use, gambling and domestic violence. On 1st June 2024 Richmond Fellowship merged with Humankind to form a single organisation that provides the joined-up mental health, housing and drug and alcohol support we’ve all known has been needed for decades. At the same time, Aquarius became a subsidiary of Humankind, with no impact to terms and conditions of employment. In October 2024, Humankind was renamed Waythrough to reflect the new organisation, of which Aquarius will remain a subsidiary.