Vacancies

Why not join a vibrant and engaged team who like to make a difference and have fun! At St Nicks, we pride ourselves on being straightforward, while following our passions about what we do and how we deliver it to our communities. If that doesn’t convince you, take a look at our “Meet the Team” section to hear what our people say about why they work here!

Maternity Cover - Nature Based Wellbeing Manager

We are looking for an enthusiastic, collaborative and experienced service manager to join our thriving Nature Based Wellbeing (NBW) team on a maternity cover basis. The ideal candidate will have excellent leadership skills, with good experience of working in a mental health or wellbeing environment. This is an excellent, varied role which oversees a service that provides valuable and life changing support to people in York. As a maternity cover position, we are open to conversations around potential secondment and job share opportunities.

We welcome informal conversations with potential candidates. For more information, or to have an informal conversation about the role, please contact Anna on: anna@stnicks.org.uk

Hours of work: 28 hours a week dependent on funding, hours to be worked Mon-Fri between hours of 09:00 – 17:00 with occasional weekend or evening work by prior agreement. Please see the full job description on the downloads section to the left of this page.

Salary: £26,409 pro rata (£33,012 full time equivalent)

This role is to cover Maternity leave for 1 year, ideally we would like to overlap the roles to provide a smoother handover so the actual term will be determined by the availability of the successful candidate.

How to apply

Please send a CV and covering letter to eliza@stnicks.org.uk  ensuring that you tell us how you meet the criteria in the person specification.

 Closing Date for application is: 9am Monday 11th November2024

 Interview Date: Friday 15th November 2024

Voluntary role - Trustee

We are looking for an enthusiastic and strategic individual to join our Board as our new Vice Chair.  We are a well-established, high-impact charity with a friendly and dedicated team of staff, trustees and volunteers.  We are at an exciting stage of our journey, having recently undergone a period of rapid growth and appointed a new CEO. We are looking to update our Environment Centre located on our 24 acre nature reserve in York. This year sees the 20th anniversary of our building’s original construction and we need to both improve and adapt the space to suit our needs and continue to align to our environmental credentials in relation to retrofitting and sustainability


All information on the role is included in the Trustee Recruitment pack to the left of this page. An application form for a role on our Board of Trustees is included within the recruitment pack.

Voluntary role - Vice Chair