St Basils works with young people aged 16-25 who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, helping over 5000 young people per year across the West Midlands region with specific services in Birmingham, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, the Wyre Forest and Coventry. This is a truly unique opening as the successful candidate will have the opportunity to strategically shape the way we deliver our services to our young people whilst leading on new business implementation such as tendering and new scheme development ownership.
This successful candidate will have management oversight of all prevention, care and support contracts and services including responsibility for quality, standards and regulatory compliance. You should hold significant experience of leading complex functions and multi-disciplined teams to deliver excellent standards of performance. Responsible for business areas totalling circa 180 staff, you will provide leadership and mentoring to managers across the organisation to encourage and promote a positive, people centred culture in line with our values.
Key activities specific to the role include:
- To engage strategically and develop and maintain cooperative joint working with partner organisations, including Local Authority partners, registered providers (RPs) and other relevant agencies.
- Optimise resources, developing and maintaining best practice within the context of a Psychologically Informed Environment (PIE).
- To be responsible for continuous improvement of services delivered within the Directorate, taking into account the views and needs of young people, available funding and the value for money of the services provided.
- To accomplish team results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising team; coaching, counselling, and performance managing employees; developing, coordinating, and implementing policies, procedures, and standards.
- To lead on new project development in terms of prevention, support and care.
The ideal candidate will hold:
- Experience of working within a senior leadership capacity.
- Experience of managing large, multi-disciplined teams within a fast paced environment.
- Experience of managing services within the following areas: Youth Work, Residential or Social Work, Probation/Criminal justice, Health, Community Work, Education and Training, Housing or Support work.
- Experience of providing strategic guidance and advice at Board level.
- Experience of taking high level safeguarding decisions and providing support and direction to staff relating to such matters.
- Experience in managing budgets/operations within tight financial circumstances and/or competing priorities.
In return for your skills and experience, St Basils are able to offer the following benefits:
- Competitive salary of £48,703 – £53,088 per annum, pro rata
- 28 days annual leave, plus 8 Statutory Bank holidays per annum, pro rata.
- Technology, cycle to work and life assurance schemes.
Please see the ‘Applicant Information’ and ‘St Basils: Who We Are’ packs for a list of requirements and helpful information before downloading the application form.
Please contact Luke Price, Recruitment Manager on 0121 772 2483 or luke.price@stbasils.org.uk for a confidential discussion should you require any further information.
St Basils is committed to a policy of ensuring equality of opportunity in employment for all, and to taking action to avoid discrimination.
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies.