Root and Branch
Job Description: Centre Manager
Salary: 20 hours per week at £15.50 p/hr
Overtime or TOIL by agreement for events, evening meetings and occasional additional working
Reporting to: The Trustees
An overview of Root and Branch
Root & Branch helps adults on their recovery towards mental and emotional well-being, encouraging physical activity and promoting good nutrition through healthy eating. We support and encourage adults coping with severe enduring mental health difficulties, contributing to them regaining and sustaining their confidence and self-esteem, providing them with new skills and training and encouraging them to take part in a variety of learning activities specific to their needs.
We help people achieve goals agreed with them, focusing on their rehabilitation and recovery, achieving positive change, giving them the confidence to make their own decisions about how they live their lives. We aim to offer courses and tuition with recognised qualifications and new skills. We promote social inclusion that is also employment related leading to positive mental health.
We are a charity and receive less than half our income through a five year contract with the Oxfordshire Health Partnership; we have to raise the rest of our income by our own best endeavours. We are, therefore, constrained by our financial resources. The sustainability of Root & Branch is a key responsibility for the trustees and the senior jobholders contribute to this.
Roles and responsibilities
There are two senior posts, two key workers and one admin role. All posts are part time.
Flexibility and consensus are two important characteristics, along with enthusiasm, determination and a willingness to contribute to the overall tranquillity and effectiveness of Root & Branch.
The two senior posts are the Garden Manager and the Centre Manager, each reporting to the trustees.
The two senior jobholders have a joint responsibility for ensuring each service user is engaged in activities enabling progress towards their identified goals; managing R&B resources within its financial constraints and obligations; the sustainable development of R&B for the benefit of service users; and increasing the resources available to R&B.
Working with the trustees the senior jobholders help to identify and regularly review those activities that could be described as the core activities leading to good and positive outcomes for service users and for which funding is reasonably available. They also help to identify activities that could be viewed as leading to enhanced outcomes for service users for which additional funding needs to be secured. Together this leads to our rolling three-year plan and fundraising aspirations.
Each role carries its own individual responsibilities and the key responsibilities for the Centre Manager are:
Organising a calendar of activities based around craftwork, woodwork, forge work, healthy eating and physical well-being through which service users gain a range of useful skills and knowledge.
Recruiting and managing a team of committed, enthusiastic and knowledgeable volunteers; managing the key workers and administrator; and ensuring operational obligations are met.
Ensuring the overall balance between service users, volunteers and activities taking place is conducive to sustaining a calm and safe environment.
Managing the allocation of places to service users, including the initial assessment, ensuring each has agreed personal goals appropriate to their needs and regular reviews to monitor progress.
Identifying and securing significant additional funding to sustain our continuous three-year plan.
Monitoring and maintaining the effectiveness of the service
Overseeing health and safety at the site on a daily basis
Budgeting and purchasing of materials & organising maintenance and repairs of equipment
Working with the Garden Manager to ensure that all the daily practical tasks necessary to run the project are carried out.