Job Opportunity with FFP Member, Barnardo's: Assistant Director Children's Services

Location: Devon, Cornwall and the Channel Islands
Salary: £53,918 - £69,323 per annum (Full time equivalent)
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 36.25
Closing Date: 27 August 2023
Interview Date: Friday 8th September

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Barnardo's purpose is changing childhoods and changing lives. Are you ready for a new challenge? Are you passionate about providing high quality services to children, young people and their families?

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated leader to become an Assistant Director Children's Services and lead our work across Devon, Cornwall and the Channel Islands.

• You will manage 5 Children's Services Managers who oversee the day-to-day operational running of our services.
• A key part of this role is to foster excellent relationships with commissioners in order to maintain our current work and grow it where we see that there are unmet needs for children and families.
• You will represent Barnardo's in newly emerging strategic environments, such as the Integrated Care System, and to ensure that the children and families we work with have a voice. 
• You will have experience of working in a multi-disciplinary strategic team with partners in social care, health, education, housing, police and other organisations
• You will need to demonstrate expertise in leading services for children across a range of disciplines, with a strong focus on early years, domestic abuse and sexual violence response service, and wider family support.
• Knowledge and understanding of the landscape around Child Sexual Exploitation and Child Sexual Abuse is also important.
• The post holder will need to have demonstrable leadership and prior knowledge and experience of tendering and running  large scale contracts. You will oversee budgets over 4 million pound.   

The central base for this post will be Plymouth, with the ability to travel to Devon, Cornwall and occasionally Jersey, therefore a car user is essential for this post.

When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document (if applicable). This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values.  We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out 1st April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to grow and develop in their career at Barnardo's as it will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues to progress through the pay band of their role.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay progression steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours.  More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.

Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you

The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

About Barnardo's
At Barnardo's we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is reflected in our values and our practice, and we have invested in this area of our work to ensure that we can deliver on our commitments to be an inclusive employer. EDI is a key enabler of our purpose as a charity and we want to ensure that the diversity of our teams is reflective of the communities we serve and that we continue to learn and develop our work with a focus on inclusion. We particularly encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian and  Minoritised Ethnic Communities, candidates who are LGBT+ and Disabled candidates. 

Full details and application details here.