Manager​/Senior Coordinator

Manager/Senior Co-ordinator of Home-Start West Somerset - with responsibility for the overall management of Home-Start West Somerset and supervision of the staff and volunteer team. Also maintaining a family support caseload/group at a level that is appropriate to the scheme.

Job Title:

Home-Start West Somerset Manager/Senior Coordinator

Hours of work: 28 hours/week (21 hours for management responsibilities and 7 hours for family support)

Responsible to:
Chair of Safeguarding and Quality Assurance Panel

Responsible for:
All coordinators, other paid employees, volunteers and to provide support and advise the trustees

• To be responsible for maintaining an overview of Home-Start West Somerset and to work with the Trustees towards its further development.
• To work with Trustees to ensure that Home-Start West Somerset meets the strategic and business objectives of the Charity and the needs of the community.
• To ensure the effective day-to-day management of the scheme in accordance with the Home-Start UK Handbook.
• To ensure that Home-Start West Somerset maintains high standards of practice in supporting families.
• To ensure equality of opportunity, fairness and diversity in all aspects of Home-Start West Somerset’s work.
• To ensure good safeguarding practice in all aspects of Home-Start West Somerset’s work.
• To take responsibility for providing leadership and management to the staff, volunteer and Trustee team.

• To be responsible for the day-to-day management of Home-Start West Somerset.
• Reporting to and supporting the Board of Trustees to ensure the strategic management, development and future funding of the scheme.
• Ensuring all Home-Start policies and procedures are implemented and reviewed.
• Ensuring effective administration, monitoring and financial systems are in place.
• Managing the operational work and deploying Home-Start West Somerset’s financial and staffing resources in the most effective way.
• Supporting the Board of Trustees in the recruitment, selection, induction, management and deployment of coordinators and other paid employees, volunteers and Trustees.
• Leading the staff team and ensuring that all employees and volunteers receive effective supervision, direction and opportunities for development.
• Promoting the work of Home-Start West Somerset externally.
• Contributing to and supporting the development of the Home-Start network locally, regionally and nationally.

• To seek funding streams and write funding bids with Trustees.
• Maintain communication with funders, writing reports on outcomes of funding using appropriate methods.
• To set appropriate outcome measures for group and home visiting support and to monitor evaluation data from families and referrers to ensure effective delivery of services.
• To make any changes to the services of Home-Start West Somerset to meet the needs of the community.
• To provide appropriate cost and outcome data to enable strategic decisions on future development.
• To support Trustees when making strategic decisions by providing appropriate analysis of current provision, capacity and need, future needs and future resources.

• Maintaining an overview of all work with families within Home-Start West Somerset.
• Managing own responsibilities for supporting families and volunteers and model good practice in family support for both groups and home visiting.
• Receiving referrals and assessing need.
• Ensuring support to families is of a high standard in accordance with Home-Start’s model, policies and procedures
• To undertake the Strategic Lead role and designated responsibilities to safeguard and promote children’s welfare.
• Ensure Home-Start West Somerset maintains an effective team of volunteers for group and individual home visiting.
• Ensure Home-Start West Somerset’s policies and procedures are fully implemented in all aspects of supervision.
• Ensure that the Home-Start West Somerset training course and refresher training is delivered in full and to a high standard to all prospective volunteers.
• To work with trustees to ensure newly recruited Trustees are…