Head of Children, Young People and Families

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. For more information, please follow the link: https://www.localofferbirmingham.co.uk/early-help-practitioners-handbook/
- 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.

We are looking for candidates who can demonstrate complex programme management and systems leadership experience, an understanding of the challenges faced by children, young people and families, and the support mechanisms needed to assist them, as well as a proven track record in building and maintaining partnerships across the private, statutory, and voluntary sector., 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 committed to diversity and inclusion and believe that a more inclusive workplace, where people of different backgrounds work together, ensures better outcomes for all staff. From application to interview, we place inclusion at the heart of all we do.
We strongly encourage suitably experienced applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join BVSC.

We encourage applicants to think creatively about how they can meet the requirements of the role and person specification if there are essential criteria you do not meet, so please describe this in your application. We are looking for talented individuals who align with our values and support our mission - there are no barriers to how you demonstrate this.

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., A training day to explore and improve your leadership skills. With an individual coaching session to ensure new skills work in your specific work context. Thursday 11th July Central Birmingham Fee £245.00.

• Volunteer at New Hall Mill Sutton Coldfield

The Friends of New Hall Mill are holding volunteer opens days to recruit new volunteers to support a range of activities including gardening, helping inside the mill, at the gift shop, in the tearoom or as visitor guides.

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