Job Opportunity with Break: Head of Solo/Dual Residential Children's Services

Location: Norwich (with travel across East Anglia)
Salary: £50,663 - £57,390 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent / Full Time
Closing Date: 03/01/2024 23:59

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Based: East Anglia – Hybrid working, Head office in Norwich with office space in Kings Lynn and Peterborough

Are you looking for a new challenge and would like to join a team where you can work with like-minded people to really make a difference to the lives of some of the most vulnerable care experienced children and young people?

Do you believe that by co-producing services, valuing and trusting your team and being aspirational helps get the best outcomes?

Do you like the idea of working for a vibrant local voluntary organisation where you can really have an impact and help shape the vision for care services?

Would you like to be part of the leadership team for our forward-thinking charity? 

If so, we would love you to hear from you!

About the role
You will be providing strategic and operational leadership to a range of residential children’s homes and projects across East Anglia.  You will be empowered and supported to develop and shape our services to deliver outstanding outcomes for children and young people, leading and developing a team of highly capable and ambitious managers to perform at their best.

This role sits as part of the Care Leadership Team, alongside 8 other brilliant people so you will have lots of peer support, opportunities to stretch your own skills and talents and develop you career. 

No two days will be the same but each week starts and ends with a whole Care Leadership Team catch up, sharing risks, plans and successes.  You’ll have a few days working at home, some in head office and usually 1-2 days in services (or pro rata for part time).

About Break
Here at Break we love delivering amazing services for children and young people – we currently support over 270 across all of our services and use our charitable income to add value to the lives of those we support.

As an innovator in transition support for young people leaving care, we also have a range of residential services, a therapeutic service, a family assessment centre, a fostering agency and services for disabled children and their families. Our work allows some of the most vulnerable children and young people locally to stay in their communities and near the people who are important to them.

Our approach to delivering care services is unique. Our services are trauma-informed, and are supported by a highly skilled therapeutic team and co-production is at the very heart of everything we do. Alongside this we have a life long offer which means that we stay with young people for as long as they need us which means we never really say goodbye and we are incredibly proud of this offer.

Learn more about Break

Why join now?
It is a great time to join Break as we are one year into our three-year care strategy informed by our staff, management teams and, most importantly, the children and young people we support.  We are delivering against our KPIs with staff turnover below 17%, good and outstanding gradings at 91%, low vacancy rates, high placement stability, great outcomes for young people and an incredible therapeutic support offer to staff. Our ambition is to grow and build even further and to create an environment where people can really grow and develop their talent.

In your role, you’ll have access to the following benefits:

• A “golden hello” scheme welcoming you to our services, with £500 paid to you one month after your start date and a second £500 at the six-month mark, depending on eligibility to scheme. (Candidates referred to Break via a recruitment agency are not eligible).
• A competitive salary.
• Excellent annual leave package, including additional service-related holiday from 2 years.
• Access to a wealth of training and learning opportunities including the opportunity to enhance your professional development through funded level 7 courses.
• Access to the Blue Light benefits platform enabling you to access discounts across a range of shops, venues, and services (your membership fee will be reimbursed).
• Access to multiple wellbeing initiatives.
• A free counselling service to all our employees.
• The opportunity to influence Break’s strategy and direction as a member of the Executive and Leadership Teams.
• Life assurance to the value of 3x your annual salary.
• Enhanced sick pay.

Full details of the role, including a job description and person specification can be found within the ‘documents’ section at the bottom of this page.

Closing date: 03/01/2024
Interview date: 08/01/2024

We would really like to hear from you before you apply so please contact Rachel Leslie, Director of Care Services on 07931 561256 or email [email protected].

The first interview will be a Safe Care/ Warner style interview. If successful after the first interview, candidates will then be expected to attend a formal interview which will include a young people’s panel and presentation.

To comply with the Immigration Asylum & Nationality Act 2006 and additional amendments, and UK Visa's and Immigration (UKVI) requirements, all prospective employees will be asked to supply evidence of eligibility to work in the UK. We will ask to see and take a copy of an appropriate official document as set out in the UKVI guidelines. Do not send anything now, further information will be sent to you should you be invited to interview. 

This job is also known as: Leadership, Children, Children in Care, Children’s Care Services, Care Head, Head of Service, Head of Care, Care, Children’s Social Care

Full details and application documents here