Family Support Services Manager (Onsite)

St Catherine’s Community Services Centre is a registered charity and community and voluntary agency based in Carlow Town. We now wish to recruit a full-time Manager to lead and develop our Family Support Services.

The overall purpose of the role is to lead and support our staff team to ensure St. Catherine’s delivers quality, responsive Family Support services that meet the needs of families and children. Our Family support services include the Young Parent Support programme, parenting programmes including Parents Plus, information, advocacy and practical one to one support to parents including the Carlow Parent Hub, Counselling, Play Therapy and group activities including family events, Healthy Streets and peer support groups.

The Role

Location: Onsite, St Catherine’s Community Services Centre, Carlow

Hours of work: 35 hours per week with some flexibility required

Reports to: CEO

Annual leave: 25 days

Salary: Commensurate with experience

Probation: A probationary period of 6 months applies

The successful candidate will possess:

• A relevant Third Level qualification
• Minimum of 3 years management experience in a similar paid role
• A track record of developing family programmes and services
• Ability to lead and motivate a team
• Experience working with disadvantaged families and communities
• Experience of working in partnership with statutory and voluntary organisations
• Excellent IT, social media and communication skills
• A full clean driving licence and access to own transport

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification

To apply:

Please forward a Curriculum Vitae and a cover letter to:
CEO, St. Catherine’s CSC, St. Joseph’s Road, Carlow, R93 T4C6 or email to teresad@catherines.ie by Sunday, the 9th February 2025.