Early Years Project Leader - #1699188

Job Title: Early Years Project Leader

Salary: £35,605 (SCP 33) 

Hours: 35 Hours a Week

Responsible to: Chief Executive Officer

Are you passionate about the promotion of Infant Mental Health and committed to social justice? Multi-Cultural Family Base (MCFB) is seeking a new Project Leader to take forward their Early Years Service. Supporting a small team of committed practitioners, you will play a transformative role in providing an early intervention infant mental health service, working with ethnically diverse families. 

We aim for our staff team to be representative of the families we support. We welcome applicants from ethnically diverse backgrounds.   

ROLE PURPOSE 

The post holder will lead the Early Years Team, a committed small multi-disciplinary team (4 part-time Project Workers) supporting ethnically diverse families with infants and young children up to the age of 3, referred to the organisation. The service also includes a new dedicated antenatal provision. 

The post holder will coordinate and develop the delivery of the project in accordance with the needs of service users, and to the expectations of funders and key stakeholders, ensuring the optimal promotion of infant mental health. The postholder will be responsible for line management of staff, students and volunteers, and contribute to direct service provision through a proportionate caseload and the delivery of groupwork. 

The post holder will uphold MCFB’s mission, vision and values. They will work collaboratively across the organisation as a key member of the leadership team, ensuring effective communication and team working. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

Project leadership for Early Years Service 

• To keep a strategic oversight of the service, identifying gaps and developing the service in accordance with identified needs. 
• To have overall responsibility for project planning, monitoring and evaluation, including grant applications and progress reports. 
• To have overall responsibility for assuring quality of service in line with outcomes and targets. 
• To have overall responsibility for the allocated project budget. 
• Recognise, manage and respond appropriately to safeguarding concerns. 
• To represent the project and the agency with service users, colleagues, other agencies, stakeholders and the wider public. This includes amplifying the voices of service users and raising awareness on systemic discrimination and the disparities impacting their wellbeing and access to services. 

Service Provision  

• To oversee and undertake comprehensive assessment of the needs and risks of antenatal/early years families referred to the project.  
• To manage a proportionate caseload within the project. 
• To plan, facilitate and evaluate groupwork provision for early years families. 
• To encourage the voice of minoritised service users in any decision making directly affecting the services delivered. 

Partnerships and Communication 

• To maintain communication with parents/carers, infants and young children to promote their involvement in the project. 
• To build links and represent the organisation with statutory and voluntary agencies providing services to infants and young children including early learning and childcare, health services, social work services and voluntary sector agencies. 
• To network and liaise with other agencies providing services to Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. 
• To identify opportunities to highlight issues affecting minorities families externally as well as share learning and insights with internal senior team on a regular basis and external stakeholders. 

Staffing and supervision responsibilities 

• To provide effective line management, support and supervision to project staff, volunteers or students engaged or aligned with the project. 
• To develop and promote effective wider team working, communication and relationships across the organisation. 
• To contribute to the Duty Senior rota on a weekly basis. 
• To ensure that MCFB policies and procedures are followed. 

Evaluation 

• To oversee assessments of infants and children's well-being at the beginning and end of involvement in order to measure the impact of the provision. 
• To develop and use a range of evaluation tools to measure the achievement of both funding and organisational outcomes in line with MCFB’s requirements and procedures. 
• To report on the progress of the project to funders and others. 
• To evaluate students’ learning progress and completion of placement 

All employees at MCFB are expected to carry out any other duties that support our service users’ wellbeing or are necessary to support the effective running of the nonprofit.

What MCFB can offer you:

• Generous annual leave entitlement (42 days pro rata, including statutory office closures)
• Pension scheme with employer contributions
• Flexible working policies
• Access to paid training and development opportunities
• A supportive and inclusive culture

Please see the attached job pack for more information about person specifications.  

Please go to Early Years Project Leader | MCFB - Multi Cultural Family Base to see the job pack and application pack. Completed application packs can be emailed to [email protected]