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Role Overview
This is an exciting time to be joining the charity! Our new strategy focuses on growth and long-term sustainability, with ambitious plans to extend our reach and impact nationally and to expand and diversify our services. Our long-term ambition for the future is a transformed landscape of multi-disciplinary therapeutic support in schools, with UP acknowledged and recognised as a thought-leader, innovator, preferred collaborator and convener.
We are entering a period of significant growth and change driven by our new strategy, and the Clinical Director will play a pivotal role in shaping the evolution of our clinical approach, delivering our strategic priorities, and representing UP as a credible and influential clinical leader.
You will provide strategic clinical leadership and robust clinical governance across the charity, ensuring our services remain safe, effective, evidence-based and responsive to need. You will champion high standards of multidisciplinary practice, leading and developing our clinical workforce, providing clinical oversight and support, driving improvement and innovation, and building infrastructure, capability and clinical excellence needed to support our future growth.
This is a hands-on leadership role that combines strategic vision with operational delivery. While the role balances both strategic and operational responsibilities, we anticipate that, through building internal capability and capacity, the focus will evolve over time towards a greater emphasis on strategic leadership, innovation, growth and impact. There is real opportunity to make this role your own.
We are looking for a strategic, confident and adaptable leader who will thrive in a growing organisation and enjoy working innovatively and collaboratively. You will be able to inspire confidence and credibility across a wide range of audiences, be passionate about the value of multidisciplinary working to achieve the very best outcomes for children and families, and be motivated by the opportunity to lead meaningful and lasting change.
Making your application:
- Please make your application by submitting your CV, along with a cover letter which clearly demonstrates how you meet the person specification criteria (we will be shortlisting candidates closely against the person specification).
- Interviews will be arranged on a rolling basis, as suitable applications are received. Please note that we may close the advert prior to the closing date, so please don’t delay submitting your application! We will keep you updated on your application by email, and will let you know about anything you will need to prepare if you are shortlisted.
- For further information, or if you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the application process, please contact us.
- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all those who work with us to share this commitment. It's a criminal offence for a person to apply to work with a group from which they have been barred from working.
Registered Charity
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A charity that supports schools and communities to ensure no child or family struggles alone with their mental health.
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This is an exciting opportunity to join Home-Start Kirklees at a time of growth and development. You’ll play a key role in shaping services that support local families, leading a passionate team and helping ensure children have the best possible start in life. This lead role is fundamental to overseeing all operational delivery of services, managing projects, developing the workforce and partnership engagement.
Home-Start is a voluntary organisation committed to promoting the welfare of families through recruiting and training volunteers to provide family support. Our vision is that families will be safe, healthy and resilient and that children will have the best start in life.
We are currently recruiting for an Operations Lead
Location: Huddersfield Town Centre Office. Partnership work across Kirklees required. Hybrid and flexible working pattern available.
Salary: NJC Scale SCP 29-32 (£39,862 - £42,839 pro rata). Starting salary SCP 29, increasing to SCP 30 after a successful probationary period.
Hours: 37 hours per week (negotiable part-time hours available).
Benefits: Generous annual leave allowance including Birthday leave with one week extra annual leave after 5 years’ service. Well-being support (Employee Assistance Programme). Professional development and travel expenses paid. Free parking at town centre office location.
Family friendly policies.
This is an exciting opportunity to join Home-Start Kirklees at a time of growth and development.
You’ll play a key role in shaping services that support local families, leading a passionate team and helping ensure children have the best possible start in life. This lead role is fundamental to overseeing all operational delivery of services, managing projects, developing the workforce and partnership engagement.
Essential requirements include:
- Good interpersonal, motivational and communication skills
- A passion for working in the voluntary sector and making a difference to families
- Excellent leadership and project management skills
- Experience of developing effective working partnerships with stakeholders
Please contact us for an application pack
The closing date for applications is 12 noon on Monday 14th September 2026
Interviews for this post will be held on Thursday 24th September 2026
Please do not send CVs.
Any offer of employment will be subject to a satisfactory DBS check at enhanced level and barring service check and the receipt of appropriate references.
Home-Start Kirklees is committed to a policy of equality and diversity which respects the identity, rights and value of all individuals. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and all staff working with these groups are expected to share a commitment to this. You will be expected to report any concerns relating to the safeguarding of children and/or young people in accordance with agreed procedures. If your own conduct in relation to the safeguarding of children or young people gives cause for concern, Home-Start Kirklees child protection procedures will be followed, alongside implementation of the charity’s disciplinary procedure.
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