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CEO

Job description

New Directions is a leading, vibrant, successful community charity, providing support services and accommodation for vulnerable adults, including those with learning or physical disabilities, within Rugby and the surrounding areas.

We are committed to providing high quality support to people with disabilities. We provide residential and respite support in our own bespoke homes, support to people living within our own high-quality supported living accommodation or in their own homes. We provide day opportunities and support to people to access the community, gain employment and access volunteering opportunities.

We passionately believe that everybody should have the opportunity to lead happy, healthy fulfilling lives. We are committed to enhancing the rights, independence and choice of people we serve and to provide opportunities for them to lead full and purposeful lives and to be involved in the community where they live.

CEO
Rugby
£65,000 to £75,000

We are also at a particularly exciting time for the charity, with the Board requiring a passionate and dynamic leader, with the proven ability to continue to take New Directions from strength to strength. An individual who can develop the organisation through an ambitious and innovative approach to service and accommodation development, ensure our financial sustainability and be our public ambassador, championing our services, and working to increase our influence.

You will be ambitious and entrepreneurial, bring energy and a vision. You will have the ability to communicate the work, success and ambition of New Directions and be able to lead and motivate people effectively.

Applications are welcomed from the wider public, private and voluntary sectors, with experience of having worked in a highly regulated environment preferred.

Closing date: Monday 22nd July
Preliminary interviews with Harris Hill: Monday 29th July
Final panel interviews: Monday 12th August

If you are interested in submitting an application or would welcome a confidential and discrete conversation, please contact our advising consultant Philip Nelson, Director at Harris Hill on 020 7820 7314 or via email at philip.nelson@harrishill.co.uk.

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