Head of Service

7 days ago

Dundee, United Kingdom Parent to Parent Full time

If you would like to discuss the post please contact with a contact number and an appropriate manager will respond.

**Job title: Head of Service**

**Parent to Parent Values & Principles**
- **‘bringing people together and creating a community’**_

We look:

- To offer support, contact and information through self-help, mutual support, assistance
- To support parents to overcome their feelings of loneliness and isolation
- To reduce their stress by reinstating hope and increasing their confidence
- Parent to Parent aims to support families and young people for as long as they need the service; there is no time limit as long as we are working together to achieve identified outcomes.

**Job purpose**
- To drive the organisation forward and seek opportunities for development
- To lead and manage a team providing support and advocacy to parents/carers of children with complex and additional needs living in Tayside.
- To oversee and monitor the financial position of the organisation
- To promote the parents’ and young person’s voice at a local and national level
- To maintain good relationships with the statutory and voluntary services

**Main responsibilities**
- To develop the existing partnership with the 3 local authorities and NHS Tayside
- To liaise with other voluntary sector organisation’s throughout Tayside
- To seek opportunities to represent the organisation at local and national level
- To support Operations Manager with the Family Support teams
- To report to the Board of Directors

**Knowledge, training and experience required**

**Qualifications**
- Degree or equivalent and a background in health/education/social work/family work

**Experience - essential**
- Experience of leading a team
- Experience of partnership working
- Experience of creating, monitoring budgets
- knowledge and experience of HR policies and procedures?
- Experience of writing reports

**Experience - desirable**
- Experience of working with additional needs
- Experience of working with vulnerable families
- Experience of voluntary sector organisations

**Skills - essential**
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Evidence of excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Good I.T. skills
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to work under pressure

**Skills Desirable**

Driving licence and use of a car

**Knowledge - essential**
- Familiarity with Additional Support for Learning Act
- Child & Adult protection

**Knowledge - desirable**
- Good understanding of funding sources

**Demands of the job**
- Working across three Local Authorities and NHS Tayside
- Flexibility to travel throughout Tayside

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent

Pay: £22,942.00 per year

Expected hours: 20 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Flexitime
- On-site parking

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 28/02/2025
Reference ID: HOSP2PFEB25

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