Head of Children, Young People and Families

7 months ago


Camden Town, United Kingdom Birmingham Voluntary Service Council Full time

Job description

**Job Title**: Head of Children, Young People and Families
**Salary**:SP 50 (£48,921 per annum)
**Responsible to**:BVSC Programmes Director
**Location**:Working hours divided between BVSC Offices and home address, as agreed by BVSC.
**Hours of work: Full time **35 hours per week
**Contract**:Permanent***

**Head of Children, Young People and Families**

**Children, Young People and Families at BVSC**

BVSC has a long history of providing infrastructure and employment support around children, young people and families in Birmingham. It is our intention to grow our offer for Children, Young People and Families at BVSC. Amongst other activity, the larger projects that we are involved in are:

- ‘Early Help’ activity that covers all of Birmingham. Early help is the total support that improves a family’s resilience and outcomes or reduces the likelihood of a problem getting worse.
- Delivery of the ‘Dream Team’ Bed Poverty Pilot, improving physical, mental, educational, social & economic outcomes by supporting children and families to have access to appropriate sleeping arrangements.
- Mobilisation of the ‘Multi-Bank’, a community donations hubs where companies can donate a wide range of surplus products to support individuals and families facing challenging circumstances. An anti-poverty initiative: it's an antipollution solution, preventing landfill, repurposing goods, and helping to create a circular economy.

The role

BVSC’s Children, Young people and Families team participates in extensive partnership work with voluntary and statutory sector partners. Together we are transforming the way Birmingham supports children, young people and families to help them lived more fulfilled lives.

The Coronavirus pandemic led to an increase in demand for Children, Young People and Families provision, and BVSC require an overall lead to focus on the continued development and delivery of our offer.

**Please see the job description for further details**

**Working for BVSC**

BVSC is proud to provide a place to work in which staff feel valued and motivated. Our talented and committed staff team are provided with competitive terms and conditions, and a supportive, flexible, friendly working environment.

Our organisation’s culture is underpinned by our 4 core values - Commitment, Collaboration, Inclusion and Integrity. These values are demonstrated in the work of our staff team, who are integral to the achievement of our mission to support and advocate for a vibrant, resilient voluntary sector in Birmingham.

**Terms and conditions**
- 35 hour working week
- 29 days annual leave + bank holidays a year
- 5% pension contribution
- 3.5 times salary Death in service benefit
- BVSC is a Living Wage Employer

**Work-life balance**
- Hybrid working, allowing staff to divide their working hours between our city centre office and their home
- Flexible working arrangements available for staff
- A flextime system is in place for staff
- We offer up to 7 days paid leave per year for undertaking voluntary work or public duties
- We provide generous maternity and paternity pay

**Staff development**
- We support staff to undertake training and development, providing funding and time off for study

**Values based approach**
- We take a values led approach to the full employee journey including values based interview, and values based supervision and appraisals

**Wellbeing**
- We offer free access to a range of wellbeing platforms
- BVSC offers all employees a suite of wellbeing support

**Commitment**: Making a positive difference through passion, innovation and social action

**Collaboration**: Connecting people and organisations to work together to improve lives

**Inclusion**: Empowering and involving everyone in creating a fair and equitable Birmingham

**Integrity**: Building trust through delivering excellent outcomes

We are a Second Chance Charter employer, committed to ensuring that people with convictions can access employment. DBS checks, if applicable to the role, will be conducted once a job offer has been made and accepted. A Basic DBS will be conducted with the successful applicant to this role.

**Interviews to take place - **Monday 20th May at **Birmingham Voluntary Service Council** Latham House, 33-34 Paradise Street, Birmingham B1 2AJ.**

Secondments will be considered.


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