Woodrow Mercer is currently partnering with a fantastic charity focused on supporting people affected by Drugs, Alcohol and Gambling to recruit a new Area Manager to provide leadership and direction for service managers and staff and to monitor all aspects of service delivery and ensure high quality services and financial viability.

The successful candidate will ideally have sector experience although this is not essential - They must be able to ensure compliance with legal and organisation standards and policies, Develop and grow the number and range of services, Project manage new service developments.

Why work for them?

Diversity

• They have a strong diverse and representative Board in relation to race, gender and age.
• The workforce is representative of the people we serve with 22% of our staff are from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities compared to 17% of the West Midlands population being from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities as a benchmark
• The people they support are diverse with 17% of our service users being from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities
• They have a Cultural Competence Change Group led by the workforce which is implementing transformational change action plan to make the organisation actively anti-discriminatory and remove the barriers to progression for people with protected characteristics. They believe that everyone matters and everyone contributes to wellbeing for all.
• Targeted recruitment of Area Managers is their latest initiative to ensure our organisation is representative at all levels.

Progression

• They have been reaccredited this month as Gold Investors in People in how they support and manage our staff. 18/27 IIP themes they achieved Platinum- the highest rating
• In an organisation of 180 people, 9 people have had between 20-29 years of employed service, and approximately 30 people with around 10 years+ - 3/4 senior managers and 7/9 of Service Managers started as frontline entry grade roles in the organisation

Strong sustainable growth

• They have achieved 33% growth in the last year from a £6m-8m organisation
• They have the backing of a new parent company from the merger of Humankind and Richmond Fellowship with an annual turnover of £160m
• They have strong financial reserves of over £6m
• They are not only growing our alcohol and drug service we are one of the key national organisations delivering gambling services for the last 18 years.

We achieve our mission

• They have increased the number of people receiving treatment for alcohol and drugs by 11% in the last year with a 20% increase in new presentations for treatment supporting over 8 thousand people last year
• 82% of people leave treatment having achieved a change in their alcohol and drug use with 97% stating they are satisfied with the support they received