Holidays & Events Registered Manager

Sense are currently recruiting for a Holiday & Events Registered Manager, to join our dynamic, forward thinking team based in Birmingham!

As Holiday & Events Registered Manager, you will be the Registered Manager for Sense’s Holidays Programme and its team of staff. This is a high-quality project for children, young people, and adults with complex disabilities, enabling them to have a safe and fun holiday with likeminded peers. Additionally, you will work across other break projects within the Operational Programmes team as and when needed, and ensure each project is conducted in a safe and effective manner, in accordance with Sense policies and procedures, and meets measurable outcomes.

You will also have the fantastic opportunity to support 3-4 Sense holidays (approx. 18 nights) per year!

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Deliver an exciting programme of Holidays effectively, safely and on budget
• Work with key staff at Sense to ensure Holidays meet our strategy and add value to our programmes
• Manage recruitment and training of sessional staff and volunteers ensure they are effectively supported by the Holidays team
• Coordinate support for the wider Operational Programmes team events
• Ensure effective monitoring and reporting of participant information, KPI’s and impact of the programme compliant with GDPR, OFSTED and Sense policies
• Champion equality, diversity, and inclusion across our holidays programme
• Contribute to an on-call system
• The post holder will be required to work weekends and evenings on occasion particularly during operational periods

Full job specification is attached below.

Your required skills and experiences:

• Experience of Managing Ofsted or CQC compliant service and evidence of meeting those standards
• Experience of managing a team which deliver a high quality and reliable programme
• Experience of recruiting, managing and supporting teams of staff and volunteers
• Experience of working with people with complex needs and their families
• Managing safeguarding requirements of a programme, support planning and risk assessments
• Ability to keep accurate and up to date records of all service-related activity and to ensure effective day to day administration of a project or service
• Demonstrable commitment to equal opportunities and diversity
• Ability to work flexible hours including regular evenings and weekends
• Able to travel nationally on a regular basis
• Full driving licence

About Sense

For everyone living with complex disabilities. For everyone who is deafblind. Sense is here to help people communicate and experience the world. We believe that no one, no matter how complex their disabilities, should be isolated, left out, or unable to fulfil their potential.

Our short Sense Holidays video shows just some of our fantastic holidaymakers, volunteers and leaders in action.

Scott, who led his first Holiday in 2019, said “You will be proud of yourself if you do it! It’ll be an exhausting but incredible week - a chance to give holidaymakers a week of adventure they might not otherwise have access to and to offer parents and families a well-earned break.”

To apply:

Please use the link below to complete your application. Managers will use your supporting statement to shortlist candidates for interview; in relation to the Personal Specification. Therefore, it is very important you complete this section thoroughly. We would recommend that you read the candidate guidelines, job description and person specification (found at the base of this advert) before applying.

If you are shortlisted, the hiring manager will be making their initial contacting with you via a telephone call within 7 days of the application. The interviews for this role will take place at our office in Birmingham for a full day.

Please note to avoid disappointment, we advise you to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close posts at any time.

No agency submissions please: any submissions without prior authorisation from the Sense Recruitment Team will be treated as our own and as such no fee will be payable.

If you require any further assistance, please contact the Recruitment Team on 0121 415 6735 or recruitment@sense.org.uk

Sense is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children and adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. Therefore, all offers of employment, where appropriate, are subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Sense is committed to equality of opportunity, and to promoting and celebrating the diversity of staff, volunteers and the people we work with. We value everyone’s contribution and ensure people are given the opportunity to realise their potential. We will promote equality and diversity in all that we do and the work we do in partnership with others. For more information please visit: https://www.sense.org.uk/about/equality-and-diversity/