Youth Early Help Team Manager
Camden
£32/hr
Start date: ASAP
Full Time: Mon - Fri 36/hrs a week
Contract 3-6 months with local authorities
The Youth Early Help Service (YEH) is part of the Camden Integrated Youth Support Service within the Children and Learning Directorate. Youth Early Help is an adolescent-focused service committed to supporting young people's successful transition into adulthood. Through the multi-disciplinary practitioners, made up of Youth workers, Connexions and Career Advisers, Substance Misuse workers and the YEH case managers, the service offers universal, targeted, and specialist services to young people and their families. The aim of the service is to identify and respond to emerging problems for young people and, by working with them, their family, and their support network, offer tailor-made support to improve outcomes and build resilience, so that young people stay safe, be healthy, remain in education, training or employment, and be able to play a positive role in their communities.
Purpose of the Role:
The purpose of the Youth Hub team manager role is to provide strategic and operational leadership for the development and delivery of the youth hub, ensuring the hub is offering a range of universal and targeted support services in line with local and national standards.
Responsibilities:
1. Managing all aspects of the youth hub offer, including overseeing the development and delivery of youth work programmes and practices as well as targeted youth support practices.
2. Leading and managing a team of multidisciplinary youth practitioners, ensuring they are supported, motivated, and empowered to deliver high-quality support to children and young people in the local community.
3. Ensuring the hub is providing a wide range of youth work programmes and targeted support that address differing needs and abilities.
4. Providing management oversight of cases held by the team, ensuring risk and vulnerability are addressed appropriately and in a timely manner, with appropriate support provided to young people and families to achieve desired outcomes.
5. Utilising effective planning, monitoring, and evaluation techniques to analyse and assess the quality of youth work and case work being delivered through regular reviews, evaluation of practice against quality assurance and local and national inspection frameworks, taking action when required to address work that falls below a satisfactory standard.
6. Ensuring service users are involved in all aspects of the work including in the assessment, planning, and delivery of interventions and programmes, ensuring that service user feedback informs service development and delivery.
Essential Qualifications:
1. Professional qualification in any of the following professions:
2. Youth and Community work
3. Youth Justice/Probation
4. Connexions and Career
5. A relevant qualification such as Psychology, Counselling, or Substance Misuse
6. Social Work (HCPC-registered)
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