Salary: £40,741 NJC pt 48 (fixed point)
Location: to be confirmed
Hours: 37 per week
Big Life Families works across the North of England in Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Teeside with children, young people and families experiencing disruption or distress living in disadvantaged areas.
It empowers families to achieve their full potential by delivering high quality, accessible services. It offers a range of services including managing children’s centres and delivering childcare, early intervention, self help groups, training and volunteering.
The Assistant Director will take lead responsibility for the provision of high quality services within Big Life Families. You will ensure excellence in the education, health and welfare of children, young people and families in order to meet the Children, Young People and Families agenda.
The Assistant Director will lead a number of children’s centres ensuring that their vision is driven forward in an innovative way. You will be responsible for ensuring that the staff team work to ensure that children’s life chances are excellent through working with families at the earliest opportunity to engage them in services, make them resilient rather than reliant and reduce families reaching crisis point.
Big Life Families is part of The Big Life group of social businesses and charities. The Big Life group positively promotes diversity in the workforce
For an application pack please go to www.thebiglifegroup.com and click work for us
Please note CVs will not be accepted
Applications to be returned to gina.leach@thebiglifegroup.com by 19 September.
Interviews to be held on:2 October
Post is fixed term until 31st March 2014