MASH is seeking an exceptional and passionate leader to join our Senior Leadership Team as our next Head of Services.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping and leading services that support women who sex work and who are experiencing unmet needs and disadvantage. As Head of Services, you will be responsible for ensuring that MASH delivers safe, high-quality, effective and inclusive services that respond to women’s needs and are gender and trauma informed and person-centred.
Working closely with service users, colleagues, and partners, you will lead the development and delivery of services that meet funder requirements and contribute to the achievement of MASH’s strategic goals. You will champion excellence, innovation and continuous improvement, ensuring our services remain responsive, impactful and rooted in the voices and experiences of the women we support.
Purpose of the role
To work with other members of the MASH team to achieve the following outcomes:
- To improve women’s health
- To improve women’s wellbeing
- To increase women’s safety
- To enable women to identify and achieve their goals
- Women who sex work are heard, understood and experience less stigma
- Other agencies and policymakers understand the needs of women who sex work and are more effective at supporting them
Using a gender and trauma-informed approach, this senior role will lead on the overall delivery of MASH’s services including:
- Oversight of all MASH’s services
- Safeguarding Lead
- Strategic service delivery Partnerships
Some benefits that we offer at MASH are:
- Hybrid working – both homeworking and office (role dependent)
- Flexible working hours and TOIL
- Access to training and development
- A wellbeing programme including up to 4 sessions of talking therapies each year
- Excellent supervision and support
To apply please provide the following:
- A CV
- A cover letter answering the following questions (no more than 2 sides of a4):
- What relevant experience do you have for this role?
- Describe your leadership and people management style giving examples
- Describe a time when you developed a new project or service
- Describe how you apply trauma-informed practice giving examples
- Describe a challenging safeguarding scenario and how you managed it
- Describe a time when you have developed and maintained a partnership with another agency, and what the impact was
Please send to admin@mash.org.uk by midnight on Sunday 15th November. Interviews will be held on 24th November.