Director of Progression - West Midlands

Closing Date: Tuesday 31st March 2026

Job Title: Director of Progression

Reports to: Chief Executive

Salary: Scale PO9, Points 54-57, £57,088 - £62,228 per annum, pro rata

Hours of work: Full Time (37.5 hours per week)

At St Basils, we are dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect our staff to create an environment and culture that promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion and advocate for anti-discriminatory practices and behaviours.

Purpose of the Role:

This is a ‘strategic doing’ job. You will have strategic, relational and operational responsibilities including: strategic oversight and responsibility for your function; relational management both internally and externally, and responsibility for the practical skills and tools to do the job and ensure it is done.

You will have responsibility for developing St Basils’ overarching Prevention, Support and Care Strategies and operational implementation through direct support, integrated and partnership support and care, ensuring young people are able to take up opportunities and experience progression.

You will lead on new business and new schemes development and implementation including tendering and bidding for prevention, support and care contracts.

You will have management oversight of all prevention, care and support contracts and services including responsibility for quality, standards and regulatory compliance.

Key Accountabilities:

• To lead the development and delivery of St Basils’ prevention, support and care strategies and services, ensuring young people are able to achieve progression within St Basils.

• Optimise resources, developing and maintaining best practice within the context of a Psychologically Informed Environment (PIE).

• To engage strategically and develop and maintain cooperative joint working with partner organisations, including Local Authority partners, registered providers (RPs) and other relevant agencies.

• To work with colleagues on organisational development and performance matters.

• To recruit, manage, develop and support Managers responsible for delivering services to young people.

• To act as Safeguarding Lead Officer and Ofsted Nominated Individual for the Agency.

• ·To lead on new project development in terms of prevention, support and care.

• To be responsible for continuous improvement of services delivered within the Directorate, taking into account the views and needs of young people, available funding and the value for money of the services provided.

• To accomplish team results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising team; coaching, counselling, and performance managing employees; developing, coordinating, and implementing policies, procedures, and standards.

• To promote the priorities, principles and ethos of St Basils.

• To accomplish financial and service objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures; analysing variances; initiating corrective actions.

• To participate in the compilation of Business Plans, setting, managing and monitoring objectives and targets as appropriate.

• To report as required to Senior Leadership Team, Board and sub-committees.

QUALIFICATION:

Essential:

• Higher level education or relevant equivalent with evidence of management development and continuing professional development.

• NVQ Level 5 or equivalent in health & Social care, leadership and management or relevant equivalent.

Desirable:

• Level 7, Post graduate qualification or study towards qualification in Leadership, Children’s Social Care, Social work or Health professions

ROLE EXPERIENCE

Essential:

• Experience managing services within the following area: youth work, residential or social work, probation / criminal justice, community work, education and training, housing or support work

• Experience of working within a leadership capacity.

• Experience in managing budgets/operations within tight financial circumstances and/or competing priorities.

• Experience of providing strategic guidance and advice at Board level.

• Experience of taking high level safeguarding decisions and providing support and direction to staff relating to such matters.

• Considerable experience of providing line management/supervision and support to staff.

• Experience of developing and maintaining performance indicators and targets.

• Experience of recruiting, managing and developing Managers.

• Experience of workforce planning to meet needs of organization.

• Track record of success in working at a strategic level in optimizing resources, implementing new business development, promoting service delivery, developing and maintaining best practice.

• Experience of providing management information reports including the presentation of statistical data.

• Experience of building effective relationships with external stakeholders and partners.

LEADERSHIP EXPECTATIONS

Essential

• Achieve results

• People leadership coaching and development

• Strategic outlook

• Building relationships and collaborative approach

• Insight and Innovation

• Commitment to Equality, Fairness and Inclusion

KNOWLEDGE

Essential

• Good understanding of best practice in respect of operational management – Service Delivery and Development.

• Extensive knowledge of relevant legislation and regulatory requirements and their operational/service implications.

• Considerable knowledge of the issues faced by vulnerable young people.

• Good understanding of the structure and framework of local and central government and the associated financial regimes and how St Basils work within this environment.

• Knowledge of producing funding bids to a high and detailed standard and of identifying other appropriate funds.

• Knowledge of and commitment to Equality, Diversity, Fairness and Inclusion.

• Knowledge of and commitment to Safeguarding, Health and Safety.