Head of Services

Head of Services

Brighton & Hove (with occasional travel)

£50,000 – £60,000 

Permanent, Full Time Hours: 37.5 hours

We have an opportunity for an experienced and inspirational senior leader to provide exceptional support and guidance to our Service Managers, ensuring that they have the necessary tools and ability to develop through regular performance reviews where expectations can be set. You’ll create a psychologically safe culture that supports learning, reflection and accountability and will identify individual’s training needs to support their development. You will manage direct reports across several of our services, including:

• Recovery Team


• Family Team


• Partners in Change, based at BHCC


• Sex Workers’ Outreach Project (SWOP)


• Looking Forward


• Creche and Early Years and Young Oasis

You’ll act as the CQC Registered Manager, ensuring compliance with CQC, Ofsted and other relevant regulatory frameworks and complete audits, incident reviews, and create plans to ensure continuous improvement. With a good understanding in a similar role, you will lead in the delivery of high-quality drug and alcohol services, actively modelling best practice and engaging directly with clients where appropriate to strengthen delivery and learning. You’ll know the importance of safeguarding, taking the lead to ensure we adhere to legislation and policies, identifying and managing risks, and encouraging a high level of H&S across all services.

With experience in a leadership role within health, social care or comparable statutory or voluntary and community sector organisation, you will be accustomed to leading, developing and supporting managers and multidisciplinary teams to deliver high quality, trauma informed services. It is essential that you have a strong knowledge of child and adult safeguarding legislation and practice, with experience of providing senior safeguarding leadership. You will have gained valuable experience of leading services for women, children and families affected by substance use or comparable client groups in related sectors (e.g. mental health, domestic abuse, homelessness or criminal justice) and will demonstrate a good understanding of trauma‑informed, gender‑responsive and child‑centred practice. As a member of the senior leadership team, you will have experience of strategic and operational partnership working within multi‑agency and multi‑disciplinary systems and be able to set direction, manage performance, drive continuous service improvement and change management.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact in a leadership role for an established, award-winning, innovative voluntary sector organisation.

Equal Opportunities 

Oasis is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from people with relevant life as well as professional experience, and those with disabilities who are currently under-represented in the organisation.  

Benefits 

In return for your time and skills at work you will receive: 

• A fair salary, comparable with similar roles in the area. 


• 28 days (210 hours) annual leave plus bank/public holidays (full time) or pro rata equivalent, increasing by one day per year after one years’ service 


• We are a Brighton and Hove living wage employer, we hold the Investors in People Award and a Silver Accreditation as a Trauma-Informed organisation 


• 1 hour per month for wellbeing and your birthday off 


• Wellbeing and mental health support, including 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and Life Assurance Plan


• Training and learning opportunities 


• Study leave for approved courses/training 


• Annual all-staff conference 


• An employer contribution of 3% into our stakeholder pension scheme (on condition that you remain enrolled in the pension scheme and contribute a minimum of 5% of your salary). 


• Occupational health – eye tests reimbursed; other health support provided as necessary. 

About us  

We give hope to people affected by drugs and alcohol. We help women, children and families find the strength and opportunities to make choices that lead to change. Not just for themselves, but for their families, their friends and their communities. For all of us.  

We treat the person, not just the problem. We don’t ‘fix’ or rescue anyone. Instead, we give women hope that things can be better, and the tools to make changes. We understand that people aren’t always straightforward – and that a tough start in life doesn’t have to mean a bad end. For over 25 years, we’ve worked with compassion and creativity to show just that.  

Closing Date: 9am on 16th April 

Interview Date: Weeks Commencing  20th and 27th April