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Partnerships and Best Practice Lead
Salary: £42,000
Contract: 36 hours per week, fixed term (12 months initially, with potential to extend subject to funding)
Location: Home-based, with travel for meetings, collaboration, and partnership work. You’ll be expected to spend time in person with colleagues and partners across locations including London, Sutton Coldfield and Hull.
Reports to: Director of Strategy, Partnerships and Advocacy
About the Role
Too many young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) face a sharp drop in support as they transition into adulthood. This role sits within an ambitious new programme, Ending the Cliff Edge, designed to change that.
As Partnerships and Best Practice Lead, you will play a central role in building a national, cross-sector alliance of young people, families, practitioners, organisations and service providers. Together, this alliance will drive meaningful reform and create better pathways into adulthood for disabled young people.
This is an opportunity to help shape a new initiative from the ground up—spreading best practice, testing innovative approaches, and building strong evidence of what works.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain a broad collaborative partnership of cross‑sector organisations, providers, and experts to achieve collective ambition of driving improvement in transitions support.
- Refine, capture and share best‑practice models for supporting disabled young people into adulthood, ensuring they are evidence‑informed and accessible.
- Support partner organisations to design, adapt and deliver pilots that test innovative approaches and generate strong evidence of impact.
- Expand Kids’ national reach by growing the number of young people supported through improved transitions pathways, and increasing the number of businesses and providers engaged.
- Act as the central link between Kids’ direct delivery and wider national partners, ensuring learning is shared widely and consistently.
- Represent Kids externally as a champion for high‑quality transitions support, contributing to sector learning, collaboration and thought leadership.
About You
You are a confident relationship builder with experience of working across sectors and bringing people together around a shared goal. You’re comfortable working in a developing programme environment, able to take initiative, manage ambiguity, and turn ideas into action.
You are motivated by improving outcomes for disabled young people and have a strong understanding of the barriers they face.
Essential Criteria
- Proven experience of partnership development and cross-sector collaboration
- Experience identifying and sharing best practice, and translating learning into practical resources
- Ability to coordinate and support pilot projects, including stakeholder engagement and evaluation
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills across a wide range of stakeholders
- Strong understanding of challenges faced by disabled young people transitioning to adulthood
- Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly to diverse audiences
- Experience supporting funder relationships and understanding funding environments
- Strong organisational and project management skills
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and sustain partnerships
- Experience using data and insight to inform practice and demonstrate impact
Desirable
- Experience in disability, SEND, education, employment or youth sectors
- Knowledge of policy and practice related to transitions into adulthood
- Experience facilitating training, workshops or communities of practice
- Familiarity with co-production approaches
- Experience evaluating programmes and capturing outcomes
Why Apply?
This is a unique opportunity to help shape a national movement for change—working collaboratively to ensure disabled young people have the support, opportunities and outcomes they deserve as they move into adulthood.
Interviews will take place on 21st and 22nd May 2026
For further details, please see the full Job Description attached.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
The Huntington's Disease Association is a UK registered charity that supports people affected by Huntington's disease across England and Wales. We provide information, advice and support to families, friends, and healthcare professionals.
We are looking for three new team members to join our team of Specialist Huntington's Disease Advisers to support people affected by Huntington’s disease.
The roles available are:
• Bath, Somerset, Wiltshire, North & East Devon, Weston Supermare & Wiltshire Specialist Huntington’s Disease Adviser (part-time, 28 hours)
• East and South Yorkshire Specialist Huntington’s Disease Adviser (part-time, 21 hours)
• Surrey and South London Specialist Huntington’s Disease Adviser (part-time, 21 hours)
All roles available are home-based, but must be living in the area specified in the job title, as the job involves extensive travel within the region and occasional travel across England and Wales.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated person who is dedicated and committed to the welfare of families affected by Huntington’s disease, developing and improving the quality of care that they receive. You will need to have skills gained within a Health and Social Care profession. Your main responsibilities will be to offer help, information, advice, support and education to everyone affected by Huntington’s disease and professionals involved in supporting them.
All three vacancies are on a part-time permanent contract. Due to team-wide commitments, you must be available to work on Tuesdays. All other working days (in line with contracted hours) may be flexible around your individual needs and the needs of the role. Regular working pattern will be agreed with your line manager upon successful appointment.
This is a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate to bring their knowledge, skills and experience to our organisation.
Learn more about the role in the job pack included.
We are committed to equal opportunities in our recruitment process and in order to find out how well we are doing, we collect monitoring data. This will not form part of the selection process in any way and will be used for monitoring purposes only. Providing this information is voluntary.
The Huntington's Disease Association is looking for someone with the ability to work in a way that promotes the safety and wellbeing of adults at risk, children and young people. We follow safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the people we work with. We require the successful candidate to provide two employment references and undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check for enhance disclosure before joining the charity.
Full details of how we securely handle the data you provide to us as part of the recruitment process can be found in our privacy notice for job applicants on our website.
Click on 'apply' to begin your application. To ensure your consideration, you must upload both a CV and cover letter (make sure to press 'upload' for both documents before completing the application process!).
Your application must include which of the 3 vacancies you are applying for. You must be located within the areas the role covers. Your cover letter should also include why you are applying for the role and how you meet the requirements of the person specification. The job description and person specification can be found within the job vacancy pack.
Applications submitted without a CV and cover letter will not be considered.
Closing date for applications is Sunday 17 May, 5pm.
First round interviews will be held online Thursday 4 - Friday 5 June. Second round interviews will be held in-person in London Thursday 11 - Friday 12 June.
Benefits
* 25 days annual leave plus public holidays (pro rata for part-time staff)
* 1 additional cultural or wellbeing leave day (pro rata for part-time staff)
* A pension scheme with 3% employer contribution
* Medicash scheme
* Travel-to-work scheme
* Flexible working approach
* Family forward policies
* Supportive and positive working environment
* Fantastic learning and development opportunities
Registered Charity
21 - 50
We improve care and support services for people with Huntington’s disease, educate families and professionals, and champion people’s rights.
