Advice and Community Support Services Manager

Contracted Weekly Hours: 37.5 Monday to Friday 9am-5pm

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: £31,447.50 per annum

Annual Leave: 25 days plus 8 bank holidays

Location: Based at ICN Office, 200 Holdenhurst Road, BH8 8AS, + some hybrid working                          

International Care Network is a Christian charity whose aim is to help rebuild the lives of asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants. We are looking for an experienced manager to manage 2 of the departments, which each require part time management, making up a full-time role. The first department is the Advice Service, which offers general advice as well as OISC (Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner) regulated immigration advice.

The second department is the Community Support Department, which supports particularly vulnerable and isolated women and children, as well as offering emotional wellbeing support and community activities for male and female asylum seekers and refugees. For more information about each of the pieces of work, please see our website.

ICN provides benefits to staff including:

• Company pension scheme.
• A degree of flexible and hybrid working.
• Staff welfare opportunities including socials and access to external clinical supervision.
• Training opportunities relevant to role.

To apply for this position, please read the job description and person specification and complete and sign the application form, sending it to Stephen Foster (Chief Operating Officer) by 9am Monday 7th October 2024. Applications can be sent by email to: s.foster@icn.org.uk. Interviews to take place on Thursday 10th October 2024. Should you have any questions, you are welcome to contact Stephen Foster (COO) to discuss on either s.foster@icn.org.uk or 01202589395. We aim to contact all candidates after the closing date to advise whether they are invited for an interview or not.

Job Description and Person Specification

Application Form (downloads as a Word Document)

ICN will seek to ensure that all existing and potential employees are given equal opportunities. We are committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in our employment policies and practices. Our aim is to promote diversity so that no employee or potential employee will be subject to unlawful or unfair discrimination because of gender, age, marital or civil partnership status, colour, race, nationality or other ethnic or national origin, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity or membership or non-membership of a trade union or political beliefs. We will seek to ensure that no applicant for employment is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be justified.

ICN take the safeguarding of service users, staff and volunteers very seriously, with a robust safeguarding policy and process in place. As part of this ICN are committed to developing a safe culture ensuring that all steps are taken to recruit staff and volunteers who are safe to work with our service users and staff, including requiring relevant DBS checks to be taken for roles working with children and/or vulnerable adults.