Job Description: CEO Home-Start South Yorkshire

Employer: Home-Start South Yorkshire, 267 Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2HB

Responsible to: Home-Start South Yorkshire Board of Trustees

Responsible For: All paid members of staff

Purposes of the job

  • To hold ultimate responsibility for maintaining an overview of the scheme
  • To ensure the effective day to day management of the scheme in accordance with the Home-Start Constitution Standards and Methods of Practice and Agreement and Quality Assurance Standards.
  • To ensure the scheme maintains high standards of practice in supporting families within the ethos of Home-Start.
  • To ensure inclusion and diversity in all aspects of the scheme’s work.
  • To take responsibility for providing leadership and management to the staffteam.
  • Making sure that Home-Start South Yorkshire has a sustainable future

ORGANISATIONAL LEADERSHIP

  • Deliver and implement the Home Start South Yorkshire strategic plan
  • Ensure that the resources (human, financial and material) and appropriate management structures and systems are in place for the organisation to operate as efficiently and effectively as possible to achieve its objectives and outcomes
  • Ensure that the organisation works according to its corporate philosophy and value base, ensuring these are consistently applied
  • Lead and manage internal change within the organisation as necessary in response to external changes
  • Lead the diversification of funding working closely with local groups
  • Lead the organisation in solving critical short-term issues when required
  • Work collaboratively with the trustee board and staff across Home-Start South Yorkshire.
  • Establish and maintain mechanisms for listening to the views of local action groups and of families on the performance of Home-Start South Yorkshire, and on their recommendations for future development, ensuring an integrated approach across Home-Start South Yorkshire.
  • Supervise and appraise the work, ensuring the development of those staff who report directly to the chief executive.
  • Ensure the organisation discharges its constitutional and legal obligations

EXTERNAL REPRESENTATION AND LEADERSHIP

  • Pro-actively act as an ambassador and senior media spokesperson for Home-Start South Yorkshire, seeking opportunities to build the public profile of the charity, provide evidence of its impact and highlight issues that are critical to families
  • Build effective relationships with all relevant levels of statutory and voluntary organisations, local authority officers, local and county councillors, private sector organisations and other stakeholders to maximise funding and partnership opportunities
  • Continue to build effective relationships with Home-Start UK and other Home-Start charities when required
  • Build sustainable and mutually beneficial partnerships with other civil society and public sector organisations for programme delivery, funding and profile raising opportunities
  • Seek opportunities to expand and promote the role of Home-Start and its methods of engaging with families

GOVERNANCE

  • Ensure that Home-Start South Yorkshire is fully accountable to the Chair and Board in the development of strategic, operational and annual plans, budgets, risk assessments and quality systems including safeguarding
  • Ensure the Board receives appropriate advice and information on all matters relevant to the fulfilment of its governance responsibilities
  • Ensure appropriate and timely reporting to the Board on the progress of the Charity against strategic, operational and annual plans, against the annual budget and on all matters relevant to the achievement of its planned outcome, including the fulfilment of its governance responsibilities
  • Report to the trustees on the financial state of the Charity, ensuring that expenditure is controlled in line with budgets approved by the Board
  • Support the Board in periodic reviews of Home-Start’s mission and strategy and in reviewing its own effectiveness and impact
  • Ensure an annual calendar of meetings of the Board and its principal sub-committees is in place
  • As requested, advise on the structure and composition of the Board and its committees
  • Monitor and evaluate all 8 Quality Assurance Standards set by Home-Start UK.
  • Work with the Chair collaboratively and supportively to enable the fulfilment of all the above responsibilities

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Maintain and improve the competencies and contribution of staff and self through continuous professional development
  • Hold overall responsibility for the management, raising and allocation of finances across the charity
  • Work to administrative and communication protocols to ensure that organisational systems and procedures are implemented
  • Abide by and promote organisational policies, codes of conduct and good practice including safeguarding
  • Support and promote diversity, inclusion and equality of opportunity in the workplace
  • Treat with confidentiality any personal, private or sensitive information about Home-Start South Yorkshire
  • Carry out other associated duties as they may arise, develop or be assigned in line with the broad remit of the post

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