Job title: Director of Supported Living and Green Care
Responsible to: Chief Executive
Responsible for: The transformation and strategic direction of the Learning Disability, Mental Health and Autism Support Strategy:

• Transformation of Supported Living and Care and Support Services aligning to the Trust vision of a fully integrated model of Green Care, Social Farming and Enterprise.
• Responsible for setting the strategy for Supported Living, Shared Lives & Rural and Urban Housing.
• Responsible for continuous development of a culture of co-production and co-design.
• Responsible for setting the strategy for Life of Opportunity Activities Transformation and the Trust’s Enterprise Model.
• Responsible for safe, innovative high quality care and support and Shared lives service delivery.
• Responsible for meaningful Stakeholder Engagement, sector partnerships and networks that add real value to the Charity.
• Develop strong and sustainable growth opportunities aligned to strategy and the people we support/commissioning partners and stakeholders.
• Accountable for Quality Standards, Risk and Regulation and excellence in Governance in the context of Adult Social Care best practise.

Management of: General Managers (Local Community Leaders), Taurus Enterprise Manager, Co-Production Lead, National Life of Opportunity Programmes (Green Care)

JOB DESCRIPTION

As the Charity approaches its 70th year and following significant changes in both its operating model (2015/16) and its re-emergence from the pandemic, the Trust has reviewed its purpose and has positioned itself to return to its roots as a national leader in Green Care with a desire to maximise its impact to create active, healthy lives for adults with a range of learning disability and Autism/mental health challenges.

The role holder will work to the Chief Executive and will demonstrate an experienced and mature approach to horizontal leadership, working in collaboration with the Director Group, Leadership Teams and wider Board and stakeholder groups. The role holder will make a significant, measurable and effective personal contribution to the overall leadership of the Trust.

The role exists to drive strategic direction to enable the Trust to deliver its’ long-term objectives; to provide adults with learning disability and other mental health challenges to lead healthy, active and independent lives through maximising our relationship with the environment and underpinned by high quality active support and education. The Trusts’ aim is to ensure that the people we support have fulfilled lives and promote their potential for independence, choice, inclusion, and control.

The postholder will lead the transformation and re-integration of core services (care and support, supported living, enterprise and educational and therapeutic activities), ensuring that strategies are impact and outcomes focussed, targets are measurable and purposeful, plans are clear and stretching, policies and processes and controls are in place, implemented and delivered against value for money, efficiency, and great quality standards and strong governance.

Key responsibilities

The purpose of this role is to oversee the strategic transformation and development of a Learning Disability & Autism Support Strategy, Life of Opportunity Activities Transformation, Supported Living & Rural Housing Strategy, Enterprise Modelling and Stakeholder Engagement, Campaigning and Regulation Strategy to ensure long term impact and outcomes for people with disability to thrive and live their best life.

Working corporately as a member of the Director Group, the post holder will positively contribute to the strategy and commitments of the Trust, ensuring that the Trust delivers on its objectives in providing efficient and cost controlled high quality services, homes, and a life of opportunity to adults with learning disability within rural and urban community settings.

This will include actively contributing to culture, values, and the driving goals of the Charity, ensuring that a co-design, co-productive approach in working alongside adults with a diverse range of learning disability and mental health challenges and being cognisant of the role of families and stakeholders in a diverse environment.

Delivering top quality leadership that focuses on aligning people, communicating Trust direction through strong leadership behaviours and values, coaching, motivating and inspiring people to overcome barriers to change.

Charity Nominated Individual for Safeguarding and overall accountability for driving evidenced quality, outcomes and impact for people living in and living outside the Charity.

Main responsibilities

Providing inspirational leadership and management:

• Model the Trusts values and ensure a strong culture that facilitates collaboration and co-production encouraging creative thinking and innovation that delivers positive impact.
• Evidence a passion for transformation and continued improvement and an ability to drive person- centric approaches to decision making whilst balancing the needs of the long term sustainability of the Charity.
• Act as a valued member of the executive, work collaboratively to provide leadership, strategic oversight and support for the organisation, its employees and the Board of Trustee to make strong and risk mature decisions for the long term sustainability of the Charity within an everchanging and complex environment.
• Making time for meaningful coaching and support will be critical to motivate, inspire and energise our people to overcome barriers to change.
• Proactively develop relationships in the sector and maintain awareness of sector developments and campaigns to drive forward an innovative team culture.

Responsible for the strategic direction of the Learning Disability and Autism Support Strategy:

• To lead the development of future strategy – focussing on the outcomes of the Brilliant Basics and Discovery Design Workshops and giving clear consideration for longer term aspirations.
• Provide insights around the Green Care Agenda and lead on the Transformation and Integration strategy to re-connect the Services, Homes, Life of Opportunity and Enterprise Offers unique to the Trust; ensuring that all activities across the Trust have strong links to individual impact and outcomes, be that quality active support, education or work opportunities.
• The postholder will ensure that there are well understood plans, targets, processes, and controls in place for all team members at all times with clear outcomes to improve quality whilst managing and mitigating risks for the Trust.

Responsible for setting the strategy for Supported Living & Rural Housing:

• Working closely with the Estates Director; take strategic oversight of the Supported Living Strategy development to ensure that the leadership, management, performance and operational delivery across all aspects of supported living and rural and urban housing meets the Trust objectives.
• Ensure that Housing Management is fully understood, integrated and delivered to a high standard and that effective policies and systems are in place to ensure all areas of supported living and rural and urban housing are efficient and offer true value for money.
• Drive innovation in digital capability and assistive technology that creates a better life of opportunity, more efficient services and agile resources.

Responsible for setting the strategy for Life of Opportunity Activities Transformation:

• Set a clear strategy that will transform how adults with a diverse range of learning disability and mental health challenges can engage with meaningful nature based activities which will lead to life and vocational skills and will result in more people with learning disability living more healthy, active and independent lives.
• Ensure that the Trust are offering a range of opportunities and educational programmes that are goal-orientated and outcome-focused, assuring that the quality and of these activities is maintained and culture of continuous improvement and innovation is embedded across the Trust.
• Review and devise a transparent and coherent Enterprise Strategy that builds on the positive platform of retail and skills based activity through café’s, workshops and food/retail centres ensuring that there is clarity of purpose, outcomes and funding models to create sustainable business models and positive outcomes for people supported.
• Using a professional, organised, and agile approach to develop powerful partnerships which are effective and provide the most impact to the people and communities we serve; creating programmes and content that generate high impact and proactively overcome challenges for those we support.

Responsible for service and growth focussed stakeholder engagement:

• Build strong and meaningful relationships with families of those that the Trust supports ensuring clarity, transparency and clear links to strong governance.
• Represent the Trust to a wide range of external and internal stakeholders including local authorities, localised community groups etc. collaborating with the Fundraising Director and Head of Communications effectively.
• Actively seek out and develop outcomes focussed opportunities for collaboration and partnership working both locally and nationally – developing the approach to community development ensuring that it is deliverable and understood across the Charity and directly links to the Fundraising Strategy.
• Work effectively with Trust colleagues to ensure that best practice is identified and communicated /shared.

Responsible for campaigning and regulation:

• Work with all members of the Executive team to design the Trust’s campaigning agenda and in developing and delivering campaigns, promoting effective collaboration and cross-organisational, multi-stakeholder planning.
• Work with the executive team to ensure all strategies led from the campaign programme deliver change, maximise supporter engagement and impact and take advantage of political, social and other opportunities to further the Trust’s strategic objectives.
• Take overall responsibility for the day-to-day operations to ensure excellence in safeguarding, co-production, good governance and sound regulatory compliance; ensure policies and procedures for all activities are in place and being followed.
• Drive a culture of safety and compliance at all times.

General and other duties:

• To be an active member of Director Group and Executive Team understanding the nuanced differences.
• To understand and be supportive of the charity’s founding principles whilst developing future strategy and intent.
• To ensure that the Trust keeps all vulnerable adults safe by leading and adhering to the Trust’s safeguarding policy.
• To undertake appropriate CPD in relation to job responsibilities.
• To undertake any other duties, as required.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional, technical, or academic qualification at degree level or above.

Desirable

• Green care-based qualification or course completion.
• Membership of relevant professional association.
• Leadership Management qualification.

Knowledge and experience

Essential

• An excellent track record of leading, empowering, inspiring, and developing individual and teams and successful leading and managing change, including culture change; ideally in the not-for-profit or related sector.
• A strong track record of innovation of services, improving efficiency and effectiveness and an ability to shape and write policy primarily within an adult social care or similar setting.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and ability to build positive relationships with all communities, stakeholders and other third parties.
• Experience of leading organisational change within a fast moving and complex organisation.
• Experience of working with complex budgets and making decision within an environment of competing demands for resources. Demonstrable understanding of financial and risk management.
• Ability to problem solve and drive innovation in developing services and organisations.
• Creative, energetic, and optimistic with the ability to take an entrepreneurial approach, turning ideas into reality.
• The ability to think strategically and plan current and new services, ensuring their delivery through effective resource allocation and prioritisation.
• Experience working with a Board and a strong understanding of governance, safeguarding and health and safety, statutory compliance and general management best practice.

Desirable

• Knowledge of current issues and future trends impacting on the Green Care Agenda.
• Understanding of the challenges facing adult social care.

Job title: Estates Director
Responsible to: Chief Executive
Responsible for: The transformation and strategic direction of the Environmental, Land Sustainability, Social Farms and Gardens and Asset and Compliance functions for a Learning Disability, Mental Health and Autism Charity:

• Transformation of the Environmental Sustainability/the Natural Environment, Land and Farming Strategies aligning to the Trust vision of a fully integrated model of Green Care, Social Farming and Enterprise.
• Development of the Asset Management and Investment Strategy and oversight of all Property and New Homes accountabilities including Business Development (new build and business growth opportunities).
• Responsible for continuous development of a culture of co-production and co-design.
• Responsible for enabling the strategy for Life of Opportunity Activities Transformation and the Trust’s Enterprise Model through the planning, development and utilisation of land and asset investment.
• Responsible for meaningful stakeholder engagement, sector partnerships and networks that add real value to the Charity.
• Develop strong and sustainable growth opportunities aligned to strategy and the people we support/commissioning partners and stakeholders.
• Accountable for Quality Standards, Risk and Regulation, Value for Money and excellence in Governance.
• An Ambassador for Green Care and Social Farming and Environmental Excellence.
• Owner of the ESG Framework.

Management of: Head of the Natural Environment, Head of Assets and Compliance

JOB DESCRIPTION

As the Charity approaches its 70th year and following significant changes in both its operating model (2015/16) and its re-emergence from the pandemic, the Trust has reviewed its purpose and has positioned itself to return to its roots as a national leader in Green Care and Environmental Sustainability with a desire to maximise its impact to create active, healthy lives for adults with a range of learning disability and Autism/mental health challenges.

The role holder will work to the Chief Executive and will demonstrate an experienced and mature approach to horizontal leadership, working in collaboration with the Director Group, Leadership Teams and wider Board and stakeholder groups. The role holder will make a significant, measurable and effective personal contribution to the overall leadership of the Trust.

The role exists to drive strategic direction to enable the Trust to deliver its long-term objectives; to provide adults with learning disabilities and other mental health challenges to lead healthy, active and independent lives through maximising our relationship with the environment, active support and education/therapeutic activities. The Trusts’ aim is to ensure that the people we support have fulfilled lives and promote their potential for independence, choice, inclusion, and control.

The postholder will lead the transformation of the Trust approach to Environmental Sustainability and the Natural Environment, Rural Land and Social Farming and Gardening Management and its long term Asset Management and Investment Strategy and all associated safety and compliance policies.

The role will ensure that frameworks are impact and outcomes focussed, targets are measurable and purposeful, plans are clear and stretching, policies and processes and controls are in place, implemented and delivered against value for money, efficiency, and great quality standards and strong governance. The postholder will create significant long term impact and outcomes in relation to the Planet, People and Profit.

This is a director role working in collaboration with other directors and senior leaders across the Trust, to provide understanding and oversight of estates’ pressures, by creating a culture of solutions-based approaches towards risks and actively ensuring great governance.

Key responsibilities

The purpose of this role is to oversee and transform the strategic development of the Environmental and Natural Environment Strategy, Environmental and Social Governance, Rural Farming and Land Strategies, Asset Management and Investment and Property Strategy, Contribution to the Rural and Urban Housing Strategy and Life of Opportunity Activities, Transformation, Enterprise Modelling and Stakeholder Engagement, Campaigning and Regulation Strategy to ensure long term impact and outcomes for people with disability to thrive and live their best life.

Working corporately as a member of the Director Group, the post holder will positively contribute to the strategy and commitments of the Trust, ensuring that the Trust delivers on its objectives in providing efficient and cost controlled high quality integrated services, homes, and a life of opportunity to adults with learning disability within rural and urban community settings.

This will include actively contributing to culture, values, and the driving goals of the Charity, ensuring that a co-design, co-productive approach in working alongside adults with a diverse range of learning disability and mental health challenges and being cognisant of the role of families and stakeholders in a diverse environment.

Delivering top quality leadership that focuses on aligning people, communicating Trust direction through strong leadership behaviours and values, coaching, motivating and inspiring people to overcome barriers to change.

Main responsibilities

Providing inspirational leadership and management:

• Model the Trust’s values and ensure a strong culture that facilitates collaboration and co-production encouraging creative thinking and innovation that delivers positive impact.
• Evidence a passion for transformation and continued improvement and an ability to drive person- centric approaches to decision making whilst balancing the needs of the long term sustainability of the Charity.
• Act as a valued member of the executive, work collaboratively to provide leadership, strategic oversight and support for the organisation, its employees and the Board of Trustee to make strong and risk mature decisions for the long term sustainability of the Charity within an everchanging and complex environment.
• Making time for meaningful coaching and support will be critical to motivate, inspire and energise our people to overcome barriers to change.
• Proactively develop relationships in the sector and maintain awareness of sector developments and campaigns to drive forward an innovative team culture.

Responsible for setting the strategy for a long-term environmental sustainability plan:

• To enable organisational consideration to environmental sustainability through the initial undertaking of baseline assessments which map out and record our natural asset base linked to agreed headline areas. Ensure that the approach will put a monetary figure on what our natural assets is worth in relation to land value economy. The Trust recognises that nature depends on our environment and our environment depends on the land around us and the care of the natural resources it provides including clean air and water.
• Work with the Executive and Board to review the values of the Trust and ensure a conscious reference to land and green care.
• Through collaboration and engagement; develop A set of principles/objectives for sustainable land management flowing from the values ensuring that the Trust can take a major step towards developing a common approach across the organisation and a framework for local decision making.
• Building on early work completed; develop a Trust wide Natural Capital Strategy, evidencing how this maximises capital for the beneficiaries of the Trust whilst maximizing funding and grants to enable long term sustainability and evidenced outcomes.
• Oversee the land based technical challenges such as Reedbeds, Bio-Mass and Rural Stewardship and payments.
• Understanding and ability to plan and drive Carbon reduction.
• Taking the lead as an environmental ambassador for the Trust and work with colleagues to consider the environmental impact and sustainability of our activities.

Responsible for the strategic direction of the Trusts Land Management Strategy:

• To lead the development of the Trusts Sustainable Land Management Strategy – respecting the Brilliant Basics priorities and giving clear consideration for longer term aspirations by developing approaches that allow us to manage and care for the natural resources we depend on and to secure social benefits from the land aligned to our purpose.
• Understanding and driving the core principle that our Land exists to provide Social Farming and Gardening opportunity (including horticulture and therapeutic animal husbandry) for adults with a range of disability and support needs.
• Ensure that the Trust’s approach to sustainability is a balanced approach between environment, social benefit and economy resulting in the Trust making a positive contribution to society through protecting natural capital, providing ecosystem services and ensuring direct public benefit with education potential for wider society – particularly for those that are disenfranchised.
• Provide demonstrable approaches to land and community facilities that can provide the space for interaction and integration with wider society – in addition to creating sustainable food production for users, staff and enterprise provision.
• Provide a strategic lead in service development and continuous improvement including health and safety, food preparation, legal compliance, budget development and colleague and service user engagement.
• The postholder will ensure that there are well understood plans, targets, processes, and controls in place for all team members at all times with clear outcomes to improve quality whilst managing and mitigating risks for the Trust.

Responsible for setting the strategy for Asset Management and Investment to directly deliver the Supported Living & Rural Housing Agenda for the Trust:

• Ensure that the leadership, management, performance and delivery across all aspects of Trust Property and Building Assets meets the Trust objectives.
• Oversee the development and delivery of a short, medium and long term ‘Asset Management and Investment Strategy’, including sustainability, ECO schemes to improve homes, investment, improvements, re-design and refurbishments, planned preventative programmes, repairs and maintenance re-modelling and delivery and associated activity.
• Drive innovation in environmental and sustainable solutions and in digital capability that creates a better life of opportunity, more efficient homes and services and agile resources.
• Working closely with the Services Director; support the development of the Supported Living Strategy to ensure that the leadership, management, performance and operational delivery across all aspects of supported living and urban and rural housing meets the Trust objectives.
• Work with the Services Director to understand the diverse housing needs of adults living with disability, mental health and other challenges.
• Drive value for money and continuously seek appropriate grants, fundraising opportunities and partnership models that drive the long term sustainability of the Trust.

Responsible for supporting and enabling the strategy for Life of Opportunity Activities Transformation:

• Understand the needs of the strategy that will transform how adults with a diverse range of learning disability and mental health challenges can engage with meaningful nature based activities which will lead to life and vocational skills and will result in more people with learning disability living more healthy, active and independent lives and ensure that strategies and frameworks developed can directly influence and enable delivery; eg: farming, animal husbandry, horticultural standards, annual planting programmes that actively support field to plate strategies etc.
• Understand the Service drivers in relation to the Enterprise Strategy and pro-actively recognise the Natural Environment, Sustainability and Assets issues that either contribute to or challenge its deliverability.

Responsible for service and growth focussed stakeholder engagement:

• Build strong and meaningful relationships with families of those that the Trust supports ensuring clarity, transparency and clear links to strong governance.
• Represent the Trust to a wide range of external and internal stakeholders including local authorities, localised community groups etc. collaborating with the Services Director and Fundraising Director and Head of Communications effectively.
• Actively seek out and develop outcomes focussed opportunities for collaboration and partnership working both locally and nationally.
• Work effectively with Trust colleagues to ensure that best practice is identified and communicated/shared.
• The role will work collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders to position the Trust as a respected, land based “green” care provider, creating simplification from a complex environment, whilst maximising the potential of our unique community settings and services.
• Drive best practice governance through the development and provision of high-quality reporting internally and to Executive and Board/Committee’s reflecting clarity of understanding on the purpose and intent of decision making, oversight and insight at all levels.
• Build on the strong foundations of partnership working through the national parks, Forestry Commission and seek out new partners that can add value to the work and ethos of the Trust.
• Assess actions, activities and decision making in the context of our ethos of co-production.
• Maximising the Trust’s biodiversity as an invaluable asset in tackling climate change, providing opportunities to develop opportunities for people we support for day opportunities; learning and work environments for people.

Responsible for campaigning and regulation:

• Work with all members of the Executive team to design the Trust’s campaigning agenda and in developing and delivering campaigns, promoting effective collaboration and cross-organisational, multi-stakeholder planning.
• Work with the executive team to ensure all strategies led from the campaign programme deliver change, maximise supporter engagement and impact and take advantage of political, social and other opportunities to further the Trust’s strategic objectives.
• Take overall responsibility for the day-to-day operations to ensure good governance and sound regulatory compliance; ensure policies and procedures for all activities are in place and being followed.
• Drive a culture of safety and compliance at all times.

General and other duties:

• To be an active member of Director Group and Executive Team understanding the nuanced differences.
• To understand and be supportive of the charity’s founding principles whilst developing future strategy and intent.
• To ensure that the Trust keeps all vulnerable adults safe by adhering to the Trust’s safeguarding policy.
• To undertake appropriate CPD in relation to job responsibilities.
• To undertake any other duties as required.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional, technical, or academic qualification at degree level or above.
• Membership of relevant professional association (RICS etc).

Desirable

• Green care-based qualification or course completion.
• Appropriate Health & Safety qualification or course completion.
• Membership of relevant professional association.
• Leadership Management qualification

Knowledge and experience

Essential

• An excellent track record of leading, empowering, inspiring, and developing individual and teams and successful leading and managing change, including culture change; ideally in the not-for-profit or related sector.
• Senior leadership experience in Estates Management roles, ideally with experience of operating multiple sites with multiple functions.
• A strong track record of innovation within Estates management, driving environmental sustainability, land management and asset investment and innovation in reducing the carbon footprint.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and ability to build positive relationships with all communities, stakeholders and other third parties.
• Experience of leading organisational change within a fast moving and complex organisation.
• Experience of working with complex budgets and making decision within an environment of competing demands for resources. Demonstrable understanding of financial and risk management.
• Creative, energetic, and optimistic with the ability to take an entrepreneurial approach, turning ideas into reality.
• The ability to think strategically and plan current and new services, ensuring their delivery through effective resource allocation and prioritisation.
• Experience working with a Board and a strong understanding of governance, safeguarding and health and safety, statutory compliance and general management best practice.
• Proven experience of reviewing, developing and successfully implementing complex, multi-site estate/land/environmental strategies.

Desirable

• Knowledge of current issues and future trends impacting on the Green Care Agenda.
• Seasonal Planting Strategies/Field to Plate initiatives.
• A broad understanding of concepts related to Natural Capital, green infrastructure and nature-based solutions.
• Experience and knowledge of environmental stewardships, Defra run farming schemes etc.