Top job! Operational Director of Childrens Services
- Full time
- Circa £66,100
- Scotland
- Closing 30th September 2022
- Advertised from 22nd September 2022
- Permanent
- A sector competitive salary and benefits package, including a 35-hour flexible working week, 38 days inclusive leave, buying and selling of leave and staff discount platform with ongoing support and development, to name but a few.
Role
About us
Action for Children is one of the UK's largest and leading children's charities, employing over 4,000 staff across the UK, in a variety of roles. Through this workforce, we have helped 670,000 children and families to have a safe and happy childhood.
About the role:
Are you a strong communicator and creative thinker with a flair for innovation who is focused and passionate about changing the lives of children and their families? We have a unique opportunity for an Operational Director of Children's Services to support the management and delivery in and across various locations in Scotland. This is an exciting and rewarding role with the opportunity to make a huge personal impact.
As a member of the senior management team the successful applicant will provide local strategic and operational direction. Through the effective operational delivery, retention, and development of a range of service clusters you will ensure that all quality, safety, budgetary and performance standards are met and improved. You will be responsible for ensuring that services meet commissioners' expectations and contractual requirements and to keep children at the centre of everything that we do.
How you will help our Young People:
- By being responsible for providing leadership and overall management of a range of services in a designated area and or function.
- By providing clear accountability to ensure quality, safety, reputation, financial health, and performance management of services.
- By being a direct line and overall management responsibility for a range of senior professional and support staff located across a defined area/function.
- To deliver on key performance indicators and utilise performance analysis
- By being responsible for the effective performance of contract management arrangements and ensuring effective governance.
- By ensuring sustainability and business growth targets within a designated area are delivered.
What are we looking for from you:
- Relevant professional qualification in Education, Health, or Social care.
- Where the post holder is the Responsible Person/Nominated Individual/Regulated Person then they must possess the professional qualification of DIPSW (or equivalent) and 3 years post qualification
- Management qualification or working towards S/NVQ level 5 in management or DMS leading to MBA.
- Evidence of substantial experience of working with children, young people and or families gained at a senior managerial
- Proven success of leading and managing a multi-disciplined workforce to achieve challenging outcomes for children, young people, and families. Proven experience of delivering to achieve financial margins and income targets.
- Nurturing and building relationships, partnerships with commissioners, peer group/sector management, to support service and business growth.
Diversity
At Action for Children, we recognise the benefit of a diverse workforce to the workplace. To this effect, we welcome and encourage Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic applicants to consider this job opportunity.
Contact
Please contact David Simpson on 01923 361732 to obtain further information. We do welcome and appreciate your interest.
Application notes
To find out more and apply please visit our website
Closing Date:30 September 2022
Senior Policy Lead (Challenging Public Debt Recovery)
- Full time
- £41,035 – £44,024
- You can complete work from home or utilise a local office base but you may be required to travel to attend meetings. (Hybrid)
- Closing 8th April 2024
This is a full-time post working 37.5 hours per week. Hours of work can be worked flexibly although there may be a requirement for some work in the evenings or at weekends. There is a 5% unsocial hours allowance included in the salary to accommodate this expectation.
You can complete work from home or utilise a local office base but you may be required to travel to attend meetings.
About Aberlour …
We are a values driven organisation delivering over 40 services across Scotland supporting children, young people and families.
We have a strong record of using knowledge and evidence from our work to campaign for the rights of children, young people and families across Scotland.
With funding provided from The Robertson Trust, we are looking to conduct a specific 3 year programme to focus on public sector debt and the impacts on low-income families.
What we are looking for...
You will collaborate with key stakeholders to explore the views and systems related to the recovery of public sector debt. You will use your research to engage with government nationally and locally to highlight the lived experiences of affected families, to seek fairer policies and commitments that help tackle child poverty.
You will help Aberlour plan and coordinate further campaigning work around the approach to public sector debt recovery.
You will have knowledge of the current Scottish political systems at a local and national level, particularly relating to social justice, anti-poverty and debt recovery policy areas. You will also have knowledge of key policy areas that impact on children and young people, such as the UNCRC and The Promise. You will have experience of writing policy briefings or papers or addressing informed and influential audiences.
Please see the job description for further details about the role along with the required qualification level.
What we offer...
As well as a supportive team, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme, life assurance worth 3x salary and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers.
Top job! Head of Service
- Full time
- Circa £55,000
- Edinburgh, Dundee and Fife - Hybrid
- Closing 3rd April 2024
The Yard is a Scottish charity with one simple aim; to build thriving communities of support that enrich the lives of disabled children, young people and their families. We offer play, respite and family support from our adventure play centres in Edinburgh, Dundee and Fife. Our approach is rooted in learning from lived experience and our team are skilled, patient and understanding and invested in each and every child and family.
To meet the increasing need in Scotland, we are planning to increase our services reaching more children and young people. We are looking to recruit a Head of Service who will be part of our Executive team.
Leading a team of experienced service managers, the successful applicant will ensure the delivery of the new services whilst making sure our current delivery is not compromised. They will implement a comprehensive evaluation system meeting the varying needs of our stakeholders; families, funders, partners and the Care Inspectorate.
Our culture is central to our success and the successful applicant will need to lead and manage in line with our values of community, inclusive, inspire, kindness and adventure. We work collaboratively, valuing insights and opinions across the team. We recognise that we have an ambitious agenda and look forward to welcoming the person who is enthused and energised by this opportunity.
In return, the successful applicant will join a warm, motivated team, where user satisfaction of our services is high. We are open to new ideas and welcome ways to develop and improve.
Read more about some of the excellent benefits available to people who work at The Yard.
If you would like to understand more about the role and The Yard, Tricia Stewart our Director of Resources, would be happy to have a conversation with you. Please email tricia@theyardscotland.org.uk to set up a time for a call.
Children 1st has been providing financial wellbeing and debt advice to the families we connect with over the past 10 years. We are looking for a Senior advisor to join our team. We have a team that works flexibly to provide support to all families connected with Children 1st through a mix of local delivery in our Services and through a helpline.
Our team works flexibly with families covering debt, financial wellbeing and we are about to develop a fuller approach to energy advice with the creation of 2 energy lead posts. As one of our Senior advisors, you will lead and support our advice delivery. Providing support and supervision to our Money Advisors and offering advice to colleagues across the organisation. This includes our Leadership Team and Colleagues in local Services.
We are looking of someone that has good experience and knowledge in money advice and who is creative and able to support our team ad develop our financial wellbeing support for children and families across Scotland.
The role involves working with the team across Scotland and will involve some planned travel and we have various option in terms of a work base depending on the successful applicant’s location. Our approach to flexible working supports a hybrid approach between work and the Service.
Additional Information
Please note, you will be expected to travel across the central Belt of Scotland, therefore a driving license and access to vehicle is required.
A Value and Reward Review is in progress with the resultant changes being implemented from April 2024 onwards.
Business Development Executive
- Full time
- £42,523 – £45,637
- This post is permanent full time and will mostly be home based but can utilise office bases in Glasgow or Stirling and may require some travel to meetings. (Home based)
- Closing 7th April 2024
About Aberlour…
We are a values driven organisation delivering around 50 services across Scotland supporting children, young people and families.
Our development team delivers success. We are growing year on year and are looking for the right person to help us continue our success through funding and developing new services and improving organisational sustainability to enable us to reach even more children and families.
What we are looking for...
In joining our dedicated Business Development Team, you will use your experience and knowledge of developing and coordinating tender responses and funding applications to provide a comprehensive and specialist support to the organisation. You will report directly to our Head of Business Development and work closely with specialists to negotiate their contributions and keep projects to completion deadlines.
You will have written and delivered high quality, successful public tenders, ideally in a social care or equivalent environment and have the ability to present information and ideas engaging a wide range of stakeholders.
What we offer...
As well as a supportive team, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme, life assurance worth 3x salary and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers.
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