Job Description

Salary: £30,000 per annum, plus Island allowance £1780

Location: Stornoway,

Contract/Hours: Permanent / Full Time – 37 hours per week

Benefits:

29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave
Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers' discounts.

Vulnerable children in the UK need your help

Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you’ll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.

Last year, we helped more than 670,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.

Why Action for Children?

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It’s the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children’s lives.

A bit about the role

As a Programme Lead, you’ll play a crucial role in shaping the future of vulnerable youth and lead the delivery of services. You’ll provide direct line management to our Practitioners and nurture and develop effective relationships with colleagues, partner agencies, employers, and external stakeholders.  You will be leading the Assessment and Therapy Team and our Outreach service. Assessment and Therapy have 2 workers who deliver packages of support to children and young people who have additional needs. The support is set up by the therapists such as speech and language, physio, OT. Outreach has around 5 staff who work with Children and young people who have additional needs offering activities, opportunities and build relationships. This is a registered service which is assessed by the Cre Inspection. Our recent inspection gave us 5’s for both areas inspected which is very good. This post will ensure the services run well, meet targets and grow.

How you’ll help to create brighter futures

Some key responsibilities for the Programme Lead role are;

Leading the delivery of high-quality service, based on the agreed model, and required outcomes.
Providing direct line management of staff, applying appropriate policies and procedures, also sharing knowledge and experience through coaching and mentoring techniques.
Taking the lead on the promotion and marketing of services to achieve set targets and maximise engagement/attainment of service users. Be inspection ready.
Assist the Children’s services Manager and represent the service at commissioner and stakeholder meetings, to ensure the needs of the programme and professional standing of Action for Children is maintained.

Let’s talk about you

A management qualification or experience of line managing staff and/or a specific project/programme.
Knowledge on designing creative programmes that engage disadvantaged children and young people
Working in a project management approach – planning and monitoring work programme in line with key milestones and targets and KPI’s.
An understanding of supporting children and young people who have additional support needs: to ensure they are included, have a voice and have choice in what they do on a daily basis.
Able to be flexible to suit the needs of the service, working some evenings and weekends.
Driver’s licence and vehicle essential to be able to for fill the role,

Good to know 

Application Process

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Contact: Jessica Jarvis email us at recruitmentservice@actionforchildren.org.uk quoting reference 13188

Diversity, equality and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.

We  actively  encourage  applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

[ For Children Service roles only: Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.]  

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