Member Job Opportunity: Break - Assistant Director of Care Services

Location: East of England
Salary: £55,000 - £59,000 per annum (with performance related pay)
Contract Type: Permanent / Full Time
​Closing Date: Sunday 22 January 2023

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Location – Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire – HQ in Norwich

About the role:
This is an exciting and rare opportunity to join the Executive and Leadership Team at our charity, delivering children’s services regionally while driving innovation and change for children and young people in and around the care system nationally.

You will be ambitious and outcome driven for the young people Break supports using your leadership, management and people skills to ensure the high-performance of the care leadership team continues as well as helping shape the wider strategy of the whole organisation as part of the Executive in this new role.

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 young people we support. It focuses in on four key areas: staying local to communities, being ambitious for our young people, staff and services, delivering high quality services and using our charitable income to add value.

In return for your hard work and commitment you will have the opportunity to develop your skills, innovate in an agile environment and have access to learning and development opportunities focused on your individual needs.

If you are an outstanding candidate who can evidence your impact in a similar role or are successful in your current role and ready to progress your career to the next level, then please apply, we want to hear from you!

About Break:
Break is a charity working across East Anglia to make life better for children and young people on the edge of care, in care and leaving care. We have a wide range of services encompassing leaving care, residential care, foster care, short breaks and residential care for disabled children and a parent and family assessment centre. 100% of our services are rated good by Ofsted and our workforce are committed to delivering high quality outcomes for the young people we support. Whilst we deliver services regionally, we have a national voice, with our pioneering leaving care service setting national standards for others to follow.

Our approach is unique. Our services are trauma-informed and co-production is at the very heart of everything we do. Our charitable status means we are able to offer wraparound support which goes above and beyond to the young people we care for. This wraparound support doesn’t stop once they’ve left our service, it’s a lifelong offer meaning that we keep our connections with young adults as they turn 18 and are available to them for as long as they need us. 

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

• A “golden hello” scheme welcoming you to our services, with £250 paid to you one month after your start date and a second £250 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.

Closing date: 22/01/2022
Interview date: 27/01/2022 (Safe Care) and 30/01/2022 (Formal)

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.

For more information on this job opportunity, please initially email or call our Director of Care Services, Rachel Leslie, via [email protected] or call 07931 561256.

Break operate services for vulnerable children and families and we need to ensure that we take steps to protect both them and our staff teams from the transmission of the Covid 19 virus. It is therefore a requirement for all staff unless they provide evidence of an appropriate medical exemption to be able to meet at least two of the following three requirements 1) Maintain a full vaccination status (including any recommend booster injections) 2) Undertake LFT / PCR or other approved Covid tests as required 3) Wear PPE including e.g. face masks when requested.

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.

We are committed to equality of opportunity. Your current immigration status will not be taken into account when assessing your application against the selection criteria for the post. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

This job is also known as: Director, Assistant Director, Deputy Director of Care, Leadership, Children, Children in Care, Children’s Care Services, Care Director, Assistant Care Director, Deputy Care Director, Head of Care, Care, Children’s Social Care.

Full details and application documents here