Site Lead, Community Led Support

NDTi has been working with communities, government, health, and social care professionals for over 30 years to ensure that people with disabilities of all ages are given choice and control over their own lives.

Our organisation exists to make change happen by celebrating what’s possible, supporting change makers and building self-determination. Our work always focuses on wider life outcomes. We want disabled and older people to enjoy the same life course and opportunities as everyone else – education, paid work, a place of their own, fulfilling personal relationships and a chance to contribute to their communities.

At the heart of everything we do is our belief in a society where all people, regardless of age or disability, are valued and able to live the life they choose.

We believe that all people should have choice and control over their own lives, that their human rights be respected and that they are valued as equals.

Our vision is shared by our members, our people, our partners, and the people who fund or commission our work.

About CLS

Community Led Support (CLS) is a change programme for statutory adult social care and health organisations across the UK. Areas that invite us to work with them join a diverse and vibrant network. CLS promotes a strengths-based approach, building on what is already working, joining up good practice, and strengthening common sense, empowerment and trust.

CLS assists statutory organisations to work collaboratively with their communities and their staff teams to shape a different way of working together that better serves the person involved, one that evolves and is continually refined based on learning and evidence.

CLS sites involved in the network are at various stages of development in the programme and support is tailored to their local context and priorities whilst being consistent in quality and approach.

The CLS team also offers elements of the programme as stand-alone offers for organisations outside the CLS Network. This aspect of the work is likely to grow as we broaden our customer base over the coming years.

Purpose of the role

Site Leads play a key role in ensuring that the support we deliver across the CLS network remains relevant, impactful and of a high quality. Our support always needs to add value to the work being undertaken in the areas involved, bringing experience, insight and understanding of the issues, the challenges and the opportunities. Blending sound knowledge, experience and integrity in adult social care with personal qualities around leadership, communication and facilitation, Site Leads play a key role in the delivery of the programme.

As well as having responsibility for the delivery of support, the Site Lead plays a leading role in strategic development of the programme – working with colleagues to continually review, refine and update the content, structure and promotion, as well as in the operational development of internal arrangements for how the team works on a day-to-day basis.

With some travel and working hours at times outside the normal 9-5 work environment, this is a demanding but incredibly rewarding role. Full-time, based from home, with frequent on-site activity that requires regular UK-wide travel

We are a relatively small, learning, collective and collaborative organisation and the CLS Site Lead post holder may also be expected at times to work across and liaise with other programmes within NDTi, ensuring that key learning and opportunities are shared, and that joint ways of working create further benefit for those we endeavour to create change for.

Site Leads typically spend 2 – 3 days a week doing work involved in the direct delivery of the programme, including meetings with sites, facilitating workshops and liaising with Implementation Leads within the sites, agreeing plans and where NDTi support can best be targeted. There is also a degree of cross-network support, hosting network group discussions and delivering workshops. Our team support professional and personal growth and always value and seek to use the strengths each team member brings to benefit the programme as a whole as well as the team and organisation.

We expect the majority of support delivered to be online but there will be times when ‘on site’ presence is needed and the location of that work can be anywhere in the UK but we will always take traveling time and personal commitments into account when agreeing to and allocating work. The postholder will be expected to actively contribute to CLS online forums. They will participate fully in CLS team meetings as well as NDTi meetings and away days.

In return we offer a competitive salary and 30 days annual leave per annum plus bank holidays, generous workplace pension scheme with enhanced employer contribution, supportive and family- friendly approach to flexible working. Access to support for learning and development and wellbeing perks.

For the full role description which includes a person specification please refer to our web site. Applications must be submitted via the web site. CV's are not accepted. https://www.ndti.org.uk/vacancies/site-lead-community-led-support/