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Job Description
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: 37
Worker Type: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £53,630 (Level one) rising to £56,840 (Level four) per annum (pro rata for part time)
Location: Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham NG2 3NG
We've got an exciting opportunity available for a talented individual to join our workforce. Are you dedicated and passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people involved in or on the cusp of the youth justice system? If the answer is yes, perhaps this is the opportunity you've been looking for? Read on to find out more...
Nottingham is an innovative, vibrant and fast-growing city, with our citizens at the heart of everything we do. Our children and young people make us a youthful, energetic and exciting city; however, Nottingham is not without its challenges. Like many cities across England, we have deprivation and disadvantage, and our workforce is at the forefront of keeping children and young people safe and improving their life chances and outcomes.
Our Children's Integrated Services work together to improve children's lived experiences, keep children safe, and help them to live healthy and happy lives.
We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to join our service as the new Service Manager for the Youth Justice Service. The post reports to the Head of Early Help Service and works closely with the rest of the Early Help Leadership Team, Children's Integrated Services, Councillors, Officers, and Partners to improve outcomes for our children and young people in Nottingham.
We are seeking a dynamic leader who will lead on the development of the Youth Justice Service, support the development of Early Helps Adolescence offer, the wider Children's integrated service, and support the promotion of the service and the Council's vision, values, aims, objectives, and priorities to employees, Nottingham's citizens, partners, and local and national stakeholders.
You will be accountable for delivering on the Youth Justice/Council plan and KPIs for the service and to translate these into clear goals and objectives for employees to deliver outcomes that make a positive difference to children. You will take a lead role in decision-making for the service, policy reviews, and effective options appraisals that balance day-to-day service management, financial risk, and organisational ambitions and promises.
Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as the satisfaction of helping to change lives across Nottingham, we offer competitive pay, our award-winning package of Employee Benefits (including salary sacrifice schemes), access to the excellent Local Government Pension Scheme, flexible and remote working, and a commitment to wellbeing and a healthy work-life balance.
So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.
About You
The ideal candidate will have:
* Degree level qualification in relevant children's discipline (e.g. Youth Justice, Social care, education etc).
* At least five years post-qualification experience in a management role in a relevant children's service.
* Significant experience and sophisticated understanding of youth justice and youth crime prevention issues relating to best practice, and their interface with integrated children and families service delivery, as well as significant experience of complex risk and well-being management working with children in or on the cusp of the youth justice system.
* Experience of advising and guiding significant change in a complex organisation to time, cost, and quality in the context of a complex and challenging agenda.
* Knowledge of best practice for children on the cusp or in the youth justice.
* Proven ability to undertake and enthuse a clear vision, leading the re-design and substantial change in major services.
* An individual with the ability to manage multi-agency services for children and families.
- This post is politically restricted.
- A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
- The role requires you to participate in the on-call rota.
Closing Date: 23rd October 2024
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held: 6th November (TBC).
Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.
We particularly want to hear from you if you are from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic community, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community (LGBT), and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we'd like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.
We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.
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