About the role
Team Manager Bury and Rochdale Youth Justice Service Full time (37 hours per week), permanent post
We are looking to recruit a Team Manager within the Bury and Rochdale Youth Justice Service.
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and knowledgeable individual who has experience of working within a Youth Justice Service setting who has good leadership and management skills to join our service to continue to develop a good Youth Justice Service.
About you:
To be considered for interview, your CV and supporting statement will clearly evidence:
* Knowledge and understanding of recent research and best practice in the field of youth justice, complex safeguarding and social care to prevent offending and reduce extra familial harm.
* Knowledge and understanding of the legal and statutory framework in which youth justice services and complex safeguarding operate is required, with evidence of successful management within a statutory youth justice or complex safeguarding setting including oversight of performance standards.
* Experience of managing wide-reaching change to professional services, policy development and implementation
* An ability to implement anti-discriminatory practice including promoting anti-racist practice and addressing issues of racism, inequality and injustice
* For detailed qualifications and requirements, please review the job description and person specification located at the bottom of the advert
About us:
The service is a multi-disciplinary team with key statutory partners but also with the added richness of key agencies such as drug and alcohol services, dedicated CAMHs worker and speech and language therapist working in partnership with the service.
Bury and Rochdale Youth Justice Service and Rochdale Complex Safeguarding are both part of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority work streams for Youth Justice and Complex Safeguarding and as such are part of exciting and innovative developments such as joint commissioning of Appropriate Adult Contracts, AIM training, GM Remand Pilot and the GM Transformation Plan.
Locally we are developing our early intervention and prevention service utilising EIPG, Turnaround and PPIED to ensure we are working with the those at risk of offending at the earliest opportunity.
How to apply:
To apply please upload your CV together with a supporting statement that provides evidence of how you meet the essential requirements of the person specification.
Please include reference to your qualifications that are specified on the person specification within your CV/supporting statement.
Please ensure you anonymise your CV and supporting statement.
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects staff to share this commitment.
Casual User Car Allowance is payable.
Appointment to this post is subject to an Enhanced DBS including a barred list check against the child workforce.
If you are interested in what we are offering and have the skills we are looking for we want to hear from you. If you would like to discuss the post further, please contact Rachel Meyrick on 01706 922327
Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role