Programme Lead, Social Work, Child Development​/Support

Salary: £31,600 per annum, plus
Island allowance £1780

Location:
Stornoway,

Contract/

Hours:

Permanent / Full Time – 37 hours per week

• 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.

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.

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.

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.

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  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.

• 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…