Service: Cotswolds and Stroud Children and Family Centres, Gloucestershire
Location: One of the three sites across Cotswolds and Stroud (Dursley, Stonehouse and Cirencester)
Hours: 37 hours per week (full-time)
Salary: £28,315 - £31,073 FTE per annum
Contract type: Permanent contract
Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.
We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the
importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.
The post holder will share and embrace the vision of ‘developing an innovative Gloucestershire Family Hub model which puts the well-being of all families, children, and young people at the heart of its work and leads to systemic and transformative change for individuals and the community.’
Main Responsibilities:
• Support and take a lead role, to ensure that finance information is correct for quarterly monitoring and evaluation purposes.
• Take the lead on data presentation, data analysis, and interpretation for Stroud and Cotswold services.
• Provide critical analysis of need, identify gaps/trends and monitoring key performance outcomes to improve service delivery for children, young people and parents in local areas of Cotswolds and Stroud
Main Requirements (for details check the job description and person specification):
• To attend annual QA meetings with the Local Authority and internal FA senior leadership team to ensure performance data is accurate and understood.
• To support the senior leadership team with the running of reports and databases and undertaking audits of systems.
• To be responsible for the management, maintenance and setting up of a new system and refining an existing one as required to meet the data needs of the Senior Leadership Team.
• Deliver whole team support/ training on data and performance processes and invoicing.
Benefits:
• an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays / of 30 working days plus bank holidays
• up to 6% matched-pension contributions
• flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment
• enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
• eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
• cycle to work scheme
• investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities
We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.
Next steps:
Closing Date: Tuesday 15th October at 5.00pm
For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email: Rachel.sanders@family-action.org.uk
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an in-person interview.
* Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.