Salary: £31,600 per annum, plus Island allowance £1780
Location: Stornoway,
Contract/Hours: Permanent / Full Time – 37 hours per week
Benefits:
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 (maximum 7) and nurture and develop effective relationships with colleagues, partner agencies, employers, and external stakeholders.
You will be leading the well-established Assessment and Therapy Team and our Outreach service. The Assessment and Therapy team has 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. This is reviewed every few months by the therapists and the work takes place either in our Bayhead building, the family home or nursery and school.
Our Outreach service has around 5 staff who work with Children and young people who have additional needs offering activities, opportunities and help build relationships. This is a registered service which is assessed by the Care 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. The Programme Lead will help develop the services further and work towards meeting the care standards. There will be support from the Children’s Services Manager.
How you’ll help to create brighter futures
Some key responsibilities for the Programme Lead role are;
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Application Process
Contact: Jessica Jarvis email us at [email protected] quoting reference 13731
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.]
Don't meet every single requirement?
If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.
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Action for Children is a UK-based charity that supports young people and their families, providing services and campaigning for a better future for children.