Job introduction Job title: Children’s and Young People’s Participation Lead Salary: £49,764 – £54,916 per annum Location: Cunard Building/City Wide A bit about us: Liverpool City Council Children and Young People’s Service is on an exciting journey and the recently created Children’s Workforce Academy is at the forefront of driving high quality practice across the holistic children’s practice system. An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Workforce Development and Learning portfolio, within the Children’s Workforce Academy, for an experienced and enthusiastic practitioner to join a newly created service delivering a revised offer to children and young people around participation, promoting voice and engagement. This newly created post will be pivotal in the delivery of future services as we continually develop our offer to children and young people and forms part of our continued improvement activity in driving strength based, relational and collaborative practice in our work with children, young people, and their networks. The post holder must work in a service that ensures that strategic vision for youth voice and creative engagement are translated into local plans in collaboration with service users alongside professionals and partner organisations. This is a great opportunity to be part of an aspirational and forward-thinking portfolio with a priority of supporting those children, young people, and their networks. Liverpool is home to vibrant, energetic, and engaged communities, people who take real ownership of their local area and are passionate about making our city a better place. We've got ambitious targets to meet by 2025 and we need people who are driven, dynamic and ready to deliver the very best for our communities. Public service is more important than ever, and this role represents a real opportunity to make a difference to our communities by transforming the way we work and placing our residents at the heart of everything we do. Working at Liverpool City Council provides an opportunity to contribute to your community and make a positive impact on the lives of residents. Our values shape how we work to deliver public services, and how we communicate with the residents we serve. We care about the best outcomes for local people, through our public services. We are proud of our world-famous thriving city with its rich culture, affordable housing, stunning waterfront, and our beautiful green spaces – there’s really something for everyone The role : You will need to develop, co-ordinate, and directly contribute to the delivery of youth voice and creative engagement activity and programme of opportunities within a range of settings. This role will support the improved offer which includes: An improved Participation offer to all children and young people via the Mind of My Own App An improved Participation Model which will include the development and delivery of various support groups for children and young people across our practice system. It is proposed that children and young people will become more involved in the co-production of services An improved Children in Care offer which is open and accessible to all children Looked After by the local authority. The Children in Care Council will drive policy, procedure, and service development through a co-production model An improved relationship with our voluntary sector to ensure we enter a partnership to co-deliver services to children, young people, and their networks across the region The development of a Young Ambassador offer, to support the children and young people help shape service development and service delivery The development of an effective Family Voice and Family Feedback across the holistic practice About you: As our Participation Lead, you will contribute to the change in culture agenda within the Children and Young People’s Service to help embed and promote a culture that leads to high quality and impact focused outcomes for children, young people, and their families in Liverpool City Council You will be required to work with service leads, front line managers, and frontline practitioners to agreed outcome focused requirements in driving up practice across the Directorate Our Participation Lead will demonstrate good experience of front-line practice, within a children’s practice system, with an ability to identify what good practice looks like You will have advanced working knowledge of childcare legislative framework, strength based and restorative based approaches, as well as relational based practice As our Participation Lead, you will have great attention to detail with the ability to interrogate and analyse complex information with good accuracy, including an ability to critically evaluate children and young people’s lived experience, so that support can be provided to ensure interventions are outcome and impacted focused You will need to hold a degree qualification in health, education and/or social care and/or have experience of working within a statutory or voluntary setting and demonstrable commitment to your own professional development We are a small team and positive relationships are valued. You will also be working with the teams across our service and therefore, it is essential that the post holder is able to work effectively with others with a flexible and adaptable relational based approach You will be able to demonstrate a high level of motivation and the ability to work independently, with skills in working within timescales and with conflicting priorities Our offer to you : 35 hour working week with hybrid working model At least 31 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 35 after 5 years’ service (pro-rata if part time) – option to purchase further days Agile working – A “Flexibility First” approach to agile working where flexibility is the norm rather than the exception Part of the Local Government Pension Scheme – option to join the AVC Scheme Progression – opportunities and training through a wide range of high quality learning Health and Wellbeing – offer including Employee Assistance Programme Cycle to Work and Travel Pass Schemes Drive Time – a salary sacrifice car lease scheme Family friendly policies with enhanced leave Discounted gym memberships Employee Volunteering Scheme Medicash Next steps: Closing date: midnight on Sunday 23 March 2025 Interviews are provisionally scheduled for Wednesday 9 April 2025. If you would like to discuss the role further, please contact Harriet Cadman, Recruitment & Retention Lead, via harriet.cadmanliverpool.gov.uk. Liverpool City Council is committed to fostering a workforce representative of the communities we serve. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we believe in appointing candidates based on their skills, experience, qualifications, and abilities. To support this commitment, we guarantee an interview to candidates from under-represented groups who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. If you require any reasonable adjustments in line with the Equality Act 2010, such as an application form in a different format or additional time to complete your application, please contact us at recruitmentliverpool.gov.uk Although we advertise on Jobs go public, and other websites, your application process will be directed to our Tribepad system. Please note that all communication regarding your application for this post will be sent to the email address that you have registered on Tribepad, including your invite to interview if you are shortlisted. Please check your emails regularly, including Spam/Junk, after the closing dates for notifications. Please ensure you complete your full profile, work and education history in Tribepad. We reserve the right to close vacancies earlier than the specified date should we receive sufficient applications. If interested, please complete an application as early as possible. Watch our recruitment video and see what life is like working at Liverpool City Council