An exciting opportunity has become available to work within National House Project Team in Cheshire East. The position is for 1.0 FTE (37) per week over a Monday to Friday working pattern.

About You

You will lead the design, development, and delivery of a Local House Project, working intensively with children in care and care leavers to support them in preparing for independence and securing long-term, sustainable tenancies. You will provide strong leadership and direction to a specialist team, ensuring high-quality, safe, and youth-centred practice at all times.

You will work collaboratively with young people, partners, and stakeholders to embed co-production at every level of the project, enabling young people to shape decisions that affect their lives. You will build and maintain effective multi-agency relationships, particularly with social care, housing providers, and the National House Project, to ensure joined-up and sustainable support.

As part of the role, you will oversee day-to-day delivery, performance monitoring, and quality assurance of the project. This includes managing risk, ensuring robust information and reporting systems, and facilitating reflective supervision and case formulation alongside the project psychologist.

The role is varied and dynamic, with no two days the same. For further detail, please refer to the 'In this job you will' section within the attached job description and person specification.

The successful candidate will have:

• Extensive knowledge of working with care-experienced young people and care leavers;
• Strong leadership, motivational, and supervisory skills;
• The ability to converse at ease with young people, staff, and partner agencies;
• A flexible and solution-focused approach to work;
• Experience of multi-agency working and managing complex projects or services.

To find out more about the essential and desirable criteria for the role, please view the attached job description and person specification document.

In return we are able to offer:

• Enhanced annual leave - Start with an impressive 34 days of annual leave (including bank holidays) from day one, and watch it grow to 39 days after just five years of service
• Purchase of annual leave - Want more time off? You can purchase up to 10 extra days of annual leave each year, giving you the flexibility to balance work and life just the way you want (Pro-rata for part-time staff)
• Flexible working pattern - Enjoy a 37-hour standard full-time work week with the added perks of flexi-time and hybrid/remote working arrangements where possible. Your work-life balance just got a whole lot better
• Salary sacrifice green car scheme - Drive green and save green! Lease a brand-new electric or hybrid car through our salary sacrifice scheme. There's no credit checks, no deposits, just significant savings and exclusive offers on a three-year lease
• White goods salary sacrifice scheme - Upgrade your home with ease. Purchase home and electronic items through our salary sacrifice scheme, spreading the cost of big-ticket purchases like appliances, computers, and tech gadgets directly from your salary
• Enhanced public pension - Secure your future with our career average pension, where contributions are built at a rate of 1/49th of your yearly pensionable pay
• Cycle to work scheme - Save up to 25-39% on the retail price of bikes and safety equipment through Income Tax and National Insurance savings. Get fit and save money!
• Employee assistance programme - Access a completely free and confidential assistance service to help manage, reduce, and overcome life's challenges, both at work and in your personal life
• Discounted gym membership - Stay active and healthy with corporate membership prices for Everybody Leisure, including:
• Gym, Swim and Group Fitness at all 16 facilities
• Off-Peak Racket Sports
• Athletics Tracks
• Sauna/Steam/Spa

Join us and experience a workplace that truly values and supports you!

Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.

We are working for a brighter future - together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.

If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future - together.

Applicants should ensure all sections of the application form are completed as failure to do so will result in their application being rejected. Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date then it is likely that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion, however, please do not be discouraged from applying again.

For any technical enquiries please email sourcingteam@ecwip.co.uk

Please quote job reference number in all correspondence.

For further information, please contact Douglas.Hubbert@cheshireeast.gov.uk