Children’s Short Breaks Service Manager

Hours of work: 37.5 per week

Annual Leave: 30 days plus bank holidays

Salary: Up to £32,000

Employed by: Involve Kent
Responsible to: Head of Children’s Services
Based: Involve Kent Head Office at Turkey Mill with flexibility for Hybrid working

Join a well-established, progressive charity, providing innovative and unique services for children, young people and families across Kent. Develop and manage Involve’s KCC Short Breaks service – Connect! Supporting neurodivergent children, young people and their families to access short break activities.

This is a key management role supporting the Head of Children’s Services in the growth and development of Involve Children’s Services, managing the Kent wide Connect! KCC Short Breaks service.

Managing a team to maintain and develop our existing Short Breaks service, delivering a high-quality programme of activities across Kent for 9 – 18-year-old children who are neurodiverse. Building positive relationships with commissioners, key stakeholders and funders.

Ensuring Involve’s Children’s services continues to be a leader in addressing challenges faced by children and young people, their parents and carers. Work alongside current systems to provide highly regarded, accessible support which adds both financial and client value.

You will be excited to seek opportunities for change and to maximise the best outcomes for children and their families.

This role also includes providing regulated activity with adults/children and employment is therefore subject to relevant checks with Disclosure and Barring service.

Please note, you must be able to drive and have access to a vehicle for this role.

You can find out lots more about working for Involve on our website www.involvekent.org.uk/joinus  including a full Job Description and Person Specification for the role.

We at Involve Kent pride ourselves on being an employer of choice and encourage applications from experienced candidates and those with potential, irrespective of identity, background, life experience or circumstances, It’s vital that the voluntary sector is as diverse as the society we serve. We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring in terms of their culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.