Who are we?
Shaw Trust is a charity helping to transform the lives of young people and adults across the UK and internationally. Our specialist services help people gain an education, enter work, develop their career, improve their wellbeing or rebuild their lives. As a charity we add value to every service we deliver by investing back into the people and communities we support. Shaw Trust is one of the largest 25 charities in the UK. Comprising Shaw Trust, Prospects, Ixion and Shaw Education Trust, we use our 75 years’ combined experience to support people to develop their potential. By joining together we are working to reach one goal: to help transform the lives of one million young people and adults each year by 2022.
Working with us gives you far more benefits than a standard package; it gives you the chance to help turn someone’s life around.
In Kent we deliver the Live Well Kent Community Well-being service commissioned jointly by Kent County Council, CCGs and Public Health. For more info see – www.livewellkent.org.uk
Shaw Trust is the Strategic Partner (Prime contractor) for the West Kent, Ashford, Canterbury and Coastal CCG areas. In 2019 we are re-designing the Housing Related Support service previously commissioned by KCC and taking that service into Live Well Kent to form a community housing service linked to our community wellbeing service.
What we need?
We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic service leader to oversee our community health and wellbeing services in Kent and ensure these are second to none.
Embedding delivery within the community at all levels, you will be our champion of professionalism and quality. You’ll posess the necessary drive, ability and skills to develop collaborative working relationships across Primary and Secondary services, liaise closely with our comissioners, Kent County Council and the participating Clinical Comissioning Groups as well as ensuring that we maintain and develop a rich and vibrant, network of local community partner organisations, all of whom will contribute to making the service a success.
You’re passion will enact our service vision and working closely with a staff and volunteer team you will be comfortable working to specific service objectives and outcomes. Identifying risk, producing robust management information and ensuring the service delivers within an operational budget are all important responsibilities of this role. Creating a client centred culture is central to this service and you will proactively encourage service user involvement in the continuous improvement and evaluation of this service.
The successful candidate is likely to be drawn from a Community Mental Health, Social Work, Community Care or related discipline and will hold a recognised professional qualification, with demonstrable experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams, preferrably within a community mental health and/or wellbeing setting.
Are you right for the job?
- Do you have the leadership qualities that will help to shape and deliver new innovative services for the benefit of our clients?
- Do you have a passion for the inclusion of people and creating opportunities for them be active participants in their communities?
- Do you have a track record of developing services with a health and/or wellbeing focus which successfully deliver on targets and outcomes?
- Do you have a professional background delivering mental health services and experience of maintaining effective service governance?
- Do you posess the necessary drive, ability and skills to develop collaborative working relationships across Primary and Secondary services?