Please Find Enclosed the Role Profile and an Application Form

11th April 2014

Dear Applicant,

Thank you for your enquiry about the post of Bradford Centre Manager with theTogether Women Project.

Please find enclosed the role profile and an application form.

The closing date for applications is Friday 2nd May at 12:00pm. We will write to you shortly after the closing date to inform you of the outcome of your application.

Interviews will be held on Wednesday 14th May and Thursday 15th May.

Preferably please email your application to and ensure that you include the reference number for this vacancy – TWB03

If you need to post the application form please send to:

Pam Wood, TWP Leeds, 13 Park Square East, Leeds, LS1 2LF.

Receipt of your application will be acknowledged.

Please note this post exempt under section 7 (2) (e) and (f) of The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and therefore open to female applicants only. The successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced CRB check.

Yours sincerely

Pam Wood

TWP Business Manager

0113 38089

Title / Centre Manager Bradford
Grade / Scale points 31-36 (26,539 – 30,311)
Hours / 37 hours per week
Leave / 30 days (plus public holidays)
Report to / Together Women CEO
Role summary
Previously a government demonstration project, Together Women Project (TWP) is now an independent charity with centres in Hull, Doncaster, Leeds, Bradford, and Sheffield, an outreach post in Keighley and Lincoln and New Hall prison. TWP provides intensive support to female offenders and women at risk of offending. The ultimate aim is to help vulnerable women turn their lives around and address issues which are linked to offending or which place a woman at risk.
The post holder will provide high quality management of the Bradford TWP centre which opened in 2007 delivering a number of schemes to help meet the needs of vulnerable women.
It will involve building partnerships with key statutory and voluntary sector agencies. The manager will also be responsible for submitting regular monitoring reports to funders and other bodies to report on progress and performance of the service. The manager will also work with existing services to co-ordinate services to women in Bradford.
Key accountabilities
Service Management

• Develop and implement the scheme’s service delivery plans and needs assessment/ care planning systems.
• Deliver high quality management of the organisations schemes, including the supported housing hostel for women prison leavers.
• Liaise with key stakeholders locally in order to ensure that women offenders and women at risk of offending are referred to the project appropriately.
• To oversee the management of risk within the team, including making decisions about accepting women to the project who may present a risk in accordance with TWP policies.
• Develop and maintain effective partnerships with local agencies delivering services for women in order to enhance service delivery through signposting opportunities. This will include putting in place including information sharing arrangements.
• Develop and maintain effective information sharing and reporting arrangements with Offender Managers locally.
• Responsibility for maintaining standards of services to women in line with Together Women Project requirements, including the practical implementation of equal opportunities policies.
• To encourage participation of women in relevant decision-making affecting the running of the project in line with the customer consultation policy.
• Sharing arrangements with other project workers to maintain cover for the centre, including variable and unsociable hours (taking account of the post-holders personal circumstances).
• Responsibility for supporting and implementing Health and Safety guidelines in relation to project workers and women as far as is reasonably practical
• Responsibility for completing monitoring reports for TWP Board, the National Offender Management Service and other bodies as required.

Leadership

• To have overall responsibility for the planning and monitoring of project worker workloads to ensure that the team meets contractual targets.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Support, direct and supervise project staff, which will include overseeing and monitoring performance and contributing to the identification of training needs.
• To participate in supervision and appraisal procedures and co-ordinate team training and development activities
• To manage and account for the projects finances including monitoring expenditure against budgets, banking, petty cash accounting and keeping such financial records as required
• To work in partnership with Together Women Project CEO to develop and deliver sustainablity for the project and the centre.
• Develop and implement project plans and ensure progress is routinely evaluated and monitored against project objectives
• To inspire others to give of their best to achieve a desired result, whilst maintaining effective relationships with individuals and teams as a whole and allocating recourses.
• Promoting the project and developing liaison with other key partners such as housing providers, Police. Probation Services, key government departments and others delivering services to women in the criminal justice system.

Other Duties

• To write funding applications to help sustain the organisations income
• To undertake such other duties as may be required which are appropriate to the work and commensurate with the general responsibilities of the post.

Role Requirements
Area / Essential / Desirable
Qualifications / Level 3 Qualification in Social Care
Experience / Proven Management Experience in relevant field.
Supervision, training & development of staff
Operational management of services for women/ vulnerable people with complex needs
Working knowledge of business planning within the charitable sector
Understanding of the Criminal Justice System, agencies working in it and current policy development in the field.
An understanding of the National and local government structures, funding streams and lines of decision-making.
Interagency working to facilitate engagement with service users and the delivery of integrated support
Significant and demonstrable experience of establishing and maintaining records systems, information systems and data management as well as undertaking routine administration and report writing
Accurate maintenance of contractual working practices and procedures
Ability to plan, develop,manage, monitor and account for team service delivery / Experience of developing a wide range of innovative approaches to supporting marginalised and disadvantaged groups or individuals.
Experience of working in the criminal justice arena.
Bid writing/fundraising
Experience of developing new projects.
Personal
Skills / Ability to support, motivate and manage individuals and teams
Ability to produce monitoring reports and manage budgets
Reliable and self-reliant with a service user centred approach
Flexibility, imagination and adaptability to meet the changing needs of the programme
Excellent communication skills with the ability to deal confidently with a wide range of tasks and handle problems coolly and positively
PR and presentation skills
Highly developed organisational skills
Effective team worker
Commitment to personal development and equal opportunities
A commitment to equality and diversity and the ability to show sensitivity when balancing differing needs with particular reference to diversity.
The ability to originate, introduce and be open to, new practices, concepts, ideas and change and to continuously improve
Commitment to working in a women centred way.
Other / Flexibility in working hours, with possible evening and weekend work.
Office technology skills, including Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and telephony systems and a willingness to continue to develop these skills and keep up to date. / Experience of devising or developing computerised management information systems.

About TWP

TWP prevents crime by working with vulnerable women offenders and those at risk of offending. We offer specialist support from one-stop-shop centres in urban areas across Yorkshire & Humberside and provide outreach services to women in their own communities.

We work closely with a wide range of partners, including police, courts, probation and prisons as well as voluntary organisations and community groups. Women receive gender specific needs assessments and support plans from Key Workers to enable them to move away from an offending lifestyle. They also access a range of group programmes, therapeutic services, developmental activities and education and training provision.

We have been commissioned nationally by NOMS and by local probation trusts to reduce reoffending by women and we receive a range of funding from grant giving trusts to divert women and their families away from crime. We have pioneered peer mentoring for women offenders and were funded by NOMS to develop a tool kit for other organisations to use in developing peer-mentoring services for women. We improve parenting skills, increase employability and bring wider benefits to families and communities.

TWP operates from community women’s centres located in accessible premises in Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield and Hull. However, we provide outreach services in a number of other locations across Yorkshire and Humberside.

Bradford TWP

Our centre in Bradford is located at Broadacre House, George Street and opened in 2007. We have built a number of excellent partnerships with both Criminal Justice partners as well as a range of other organisations that regularly deliver services from our centre. We have offender managers who are co located within our centre and work closely with the key workers to deliver end-to-end offender management.

We have recently been successful in a tender to Bradford Supporting People and from 1st May will be managing accommodation based support for women leaving New Hall Prison. We are also involved in the West Yorkshire Finding Independence (WYFI) project and will be working to influence and promote the gender specific needs of women in West Yorkshire.Bradford TWP has also been successful in receiving funding to employ 2 family support workers whom we will be recruiting later in the year.

The Bradford Centre manager will report to the CEO and be part of the senior management team attending meetings regularly both internally and externally. We are recruiting to a number of new posts and once completed the team will consist of 8 Key Workers, 1 Women’s Engagement Worker for the WYFI project and 2 Family Support Workers.

Partnership working with statutory and non statutory agencies (both mainstream and specialist) will be an essential component of this role and the post holder will be required to develop and maintain these partnerships to ensure an effective service is delivered in line with the Strategic Priorities of Bradford.

Application Form
Vacancy (Job Title): / Centre Manager - Bradford / Ref No: TWB03
(Please complete using a black pen/ink)
1) Personal Details
Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms/Other:
Name: / Known as: / Any previous names:
Address:
Postcode:
Home Telephone: / Mobile:
Work Telephone: / May we telephone you at work? Y/N
Do you hold a full valid driving licence? / YES / NO
Do you have a vehicle available for work? / YES / NO
2) Current or Last Employment
Name of present or last employer: / Post Held:
Address: / Salary: / Notice Required:
Postcode: / Telephone:
Date you began employment: / Date you left:
Reason for leaving/wanting to leave:
3) Education/Qualifications & training relevant to post
Dates / Qualification/Course
4) Employment History (for the past ten years or since full time education)
Date started
and left / Employer and type of organisation / Position held, main duties and reason for leaving
5) Convictions
Please state any convictions you have had for criminal offences. Most of our posts are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. If the post you are applying for is not exempt, this will be stated in the covering letter and you need only declare unspent convictions. If none state “none”. If necessary attach a separate sheet giving details of dates, offences and sentences, place in separate envelope marked Private and Confidential. All exempt post will be subject to criminal record checks via the criminal records bureau. Having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you form working with Together Women.
6) References
Please give the names and addresses, one of which should be your present or most recent employer. State in what capacity you are known to each referee. Where you have been in post with your current or last employer (if currently not working) for less than 12 months, we will automatically take up references from your last two employers. Please provide their details.
Name:
Address:
Postcode:
Email:
May we contact them prior to interview? YES / NO / Name:
Address:
Postcode:
Email:
May we contact them prior to interview? YES / NO
7) Role Requirements – part 1
With reference to the role profile, please outline how your skills and experience enable you to meet the key accountabilities for this role
7) Role Requirements – part 2
With reference to the role profile, please describe how you meet each of the essential requirements and comment on the desirable items if you wish. Please also outline how you meet the competencies required. Use an additional sheet if required.
8) Declarations
Are you related to or a partner of a Together Women customer, worker or Board member?
YES / NO
(If yes give brief details on a separate sheet)
To the best of my knowledge there is no reason in respect of my physical or mental health why I would not be able to carry out fully the tasks described for this post. I confirm that the information I have given on this form is correct and complete and that I understand misleading statements may be sufficient grounds for dismissal.
Signed: ______Date: ______
Please return the completed form to the address/ email stated in the covering letter by the date specified.

Equal Opportunities

This form will be detached from your application form upon receipt and the selection panel will not have access to the information during the Short listing or interviews.

Together Women provides support for single people regardless of their background and therefore intends to ensure equality of opportunity in our recruitment process. People seeking employment will not be refused on the grounds of gender, ethnic origin, colour, sexuality, disability, religion, appearance or HIV status.

To ensure that this policy is effective, we monitor our Job Applicants according to the categories below. Completion of this form is voluntary, but it does help us provide a better service if this information is given. Thank you.

THE INFORMATION YOU GIVE ON THIS FORM WILL BE CONFIDENTIAL TO TOGETHER WOMEN AND USED FOR MONITORING PURPOSES ONLY.

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I define my sexuality as:

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Do you define yourself as having a disability?

YES

NO

If yes, please specify: ______

Age:

20 - 30

31 - 40

41 - 50

51+

Where did you see the advertisement? ______

Guidance Notes on Completing this Application Form

If you would like this application form to be supplied in large print, Braille or disc format, please telephone the person on the covering letter who will arrange this.

For any post in Together Women, the application form plays an essential part in choosing the right person for a job. It is only the information contained in your application form that will decide whether or not you are shortlisted for an interview.

The following will help you complete the form:

• Think about the job you are applying for and exactly what it involves.

• Read through the application form so that you know exactly what information is required.
• Read through the Job Description, Person Specification and (where povided) the project profile so that you know exactly what the job is and the skills and abilities you require to do the job.
• Make a rough list of all your skills and experiences. Choose those you think are relevant to the job.
• No assumption will be made about your skills and experience so it is essential that you tell us how you meet the criteria - e.g. if you are a secretary tell us what is involved, do not assume the title "secretary" explains everything.
• Complete the Application Form legibly, ensuring you cover all the essential criteria from the Person Specification. If you wish, add any evidence of how you meet the desirable criteria. If there is insufficient space, you may like to photocopy page 3.
• Check you have signed the declaration at the end of the application form.
• Make sure you know the closing date and return the form in plenty of time.
• Ensure that you have paid the correct postage. We will not be responsible for collecting any under paid correspondence from the sorting office.

Word Processing

We will be happy to accept your own version of the form provided it covers all of the questions and is signed. CV’s are not accepted.

What happens next?

• Your completed application form will be used to decide whether or not you are selected for an interview. If you are shortlisted, you will hear within 15 days of the closing date.
• The interview panel is normally made up of 3 people who will ask pre-determined questions based on the person specification. The questions are intended to allow you to expand on your application and to show the panel how well you meet the requirements of the post. You will have the opportunity to ask questions about the job, conditions of service or anything else about the orrganisation. The panel has to keep a record of their assessment of each candidate so that the reasons for their decision are clear, consistent and justifiable.

Complaints

If you feel you have been treated unfairly, please write to us and we will investigate.