Join the Team
Become part of the Charlie Waller Trust team
The Charlie Waller Trust was created by the Waller family in 1997 in response to the loss of their son and brother Charlie to suicide, having suffered from depression. We have since become one of the UK’s most respected mental health charities.
We provide mental health training and resources with a focus on children and young people. We equip parents, carers, teachers and communities with the best and latest evidence-based strategies. We give them the knowledge and confidence to help young people thrive.
If you’re interested in joining our team, we may have an opportunity for you – within our head office, as part of our network of freelance trainers, or as a volunteer.
Youth Involvement Lead
The role is based at the Trust’s office in West Berkshire with a minimum of one day per week (typically Mondays) expected to be worked at our Newbury office. Flexible working arrangements are available with the understanding that this must meet the objectives of the charity and requirements of the role. Part-time (0.4 FTE), permanent, £27,745 - £31,227 FTE, depending on experience.
This is a key role leading on the delivery of Youth Involvement work within a leading mental health charity focused on supporting the systems around children and young people. We are looking for a compassionate, flexible and focused professional with excellent interpersonal skills and experience of working with young people with lived experience of mental health challenges, as well as a strong track record of delivering on discrete projects.
The Youth Involvement Lead is focused on ensuring that youth voice and lived experience is integrated into work across the Charlie Waller Trust (CWT). The exact focus of the work will shift over time in line with the interests of each cohort and needs of CWT, but is likely to include: supporting the Youth Ambassadors to engage externally, via speaking opportunities; contributing to the Charitable Activity team’s work; creating communications content with Communications team support; and supporting the CWT staff team to better understand lived experience perspectives so they can carry out their roles more effectively.
The deadline for applications is 9am on Monday 16th June.
Please submit via your chosen job website, or send your CV and a supporting statement to kirsty.smith@charliewaller.org. We ask that you structure your supporting statement, by providing relevant information under the person specification bullet points (combining these if multiple points are effectively responded to by one experience). Please try to keep your supporting statement to a maximum of 800 words, excluding headers. Applications will not be considered without a supporting statement.