Assistant Team Manager Southampton is a city of hope, history and diversity. The city is located on the South Coast within an hour of London, twenty minutes to the beautiful New Forest and only 30 minutes to the fabulous beaches of Bournemouth and Poole. Southampton is a city of culture, with a diverse population, vibrant arts and music scene, a premiership football club and a busy international port. Southampton’s community is exciting and eclectic. Southampton, like many cities in the UK, has its challenges austerity and the cost of living crisis is affecting many families. The city has a high volume of need and risk and needs the very best from its children’s services partnership. Children’s Service’s in Southampton has been on an amazing transformation journey and in 2023, after many challenging years, were assessed by Ofsted to be Good in all areas, with Outstanding Leadership. In 2024 Southampton’s Children’s Services where shortlisted for three LGC Awards 'Best Place to work', ' Innovation in Recruitment' and 'Innovation in Retention'. Southampton Children’s Services is a great place to work. We refer to ourselves as the “Southampton Family” as we are close, super supportive, appropriately challenging and love and care for each other and for the children, young people and families we support. About the role: We have an exciting Assistant Team Manager opportunity within the Young People’s Service. If you care passionately about young people and would like to join a team of dedicated practitioners then this role could be for you. The Young People’s Service is a hardworking and innovative service, committed to supporting young people who are impacted by contextual safeguarding concerns including peer to peer violence and criminality, who are suffering or at risk of suffering significant harm because of exploitation, and for whom there is a risk of entry to care. This area of work has high levels of demand and there is high level of complexity in the City. Our young people need someone special to join the service as an Assistant Team Manager. This person needs to be quick to find solutions to complex challenges such as young people encountering coercion or violence, struggling to access education or training, or recovering from traumatic experiences. As an Assistant Team Manager you will be part of the management team supporting practitioners to balance and prioritise competing demands, develop creative intervention plans, and fulfil the statutory social work function. We need someone who is calm, containing, solution focused, quick thinking and positive. We are looking for someone who can give young people, families and colleagues hope and aspiration. You will be supportive and well supported in your role, joining an experienced and committed team of managers and practitioners, including colleagues from our Inclusion and Prevention team, from the Youth Justice Service, Building Bridges and our Contextual Safeguarding Team to ensure the delivery of high quality trauma informed responses to young people experiencing a range of adolescent issues. What we can offer you: Extensive partnership working with the Police, Voluntary and Community Sector, Schools, Violence Reduction Unit and Health Colleagues Risk Management in terms of exploitation and serious youth violence both of which are the greatest risk to children in 2024 Raising your profile in the Multi Agency Partnerships. Management and oversight of every part of child’s journey from assessment and prevention, CP/ ROTH, planning and reviewing, entry to care and reunification. Here at SCC we have a range of different perks and benefits, a few examples can be found below. A generous local government pension scheme. Flexible working (role dependant). Up to 13 days of Flexi Leave. Hybrid working arrangements (role dependant). 25 days annual leave (pro rata), plus bank holidays. Online Benefits – salary sacrifice schemes, benefits and discounts. Great local transport links. Employee assistance programme with access to our health wellbeing and support. For further information on our benefits package please visit: Employee benefits (southampton.gov.uk) Contact details for informal discussion: For further information please contact Maya Shyadehi on maya.shyadehisouthampton.gov.uk or Julie Sayce on julie.saycesouthampton.gov.uk Recruitment contact details: Email: recruitmentsouthampton.gov.uk Tel: 023 8083 4033 For more information about SCC please visit Southampton City Council Follow us on social media for regular updates on our featured jobs and latest news. Twitter Facebook YouTube