Team Manager | Child & Youth Justice Service | Lancashire

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| Salary £48,474-£52,573 Per annum | Temporary until end of September 2025, Full Time, 37 hours per week | Child & Youth Justice Service |

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Lancashire Child and Youth Justice Team Manager vacancy

Lancashire is the fourth largest local authority in England and covers a large geographical area and a wide range of communities both urban and rural. Lancashire's Education and Children's Services' vision is that children, young people and their families are safe, healthy and achieve their full potential.

Within Children's Services, Lancashire Child and Youth Justice Service (CYJS) sits alongside the EmPower Contextualised Safeguarding Team, offering excellent opportunities for services to work together. CYJS value motivated and inspirational leaders who seek to improve outcomes for children and make a positive difference to the local communities of Lancashire. If you are looking for a new challenge the CYJS has an excellent opportunity for you to join their highly skilled and experienced management team as a Child and Youth Justice Team Manager, on a temporary basis.

Whilst the primary focus of the post is to provide leadership and management for Prevention and Diversion work within the service, the successful candidate will be required to provide Youth Justice managerial support across the service, including duty management responsibilities.

You will be responsible for line managing a skilled team and lead from the front in ensuring effective prevention and diversion services. You will need to evidence an impressive track record of management in a social work or criminal justice system setting, hold a professional qualification in social work and be registered with Social Work England. You will be committed to ensuring and achieving the highest professional standards of effective practice in youth justice services. You will have the opportunity to innovate as we develop services to contribute to improving local communities.

CYJS's underpinning principles are to provide child first, trauma informed and restorative services. The service supports some of the most vulnerable children in society, those impacted by adverse childhood experiences, those who are most excluded, so above all, you will need to have the drive, passion and commitment to make a difference for these children. In return you will receive regular supervision, support and benefit from opportunities for continuous professional and personal development.

The main office bases for CYJS are in Preston, Lancaster and Burnley with additional bases across Lancashire. The closing date to apply for the post is 28th November 2024.

Proposed interview date: 6th December 2024

For an informal discussion or more information about this post please contact Hannah Blower (Child and Youth Justice Senior Manager) on 01772 532047.

The post you are applying for is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). If successful you will be required to apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for a 'disclosure'. Further information can be found on the 'Our Recruitment Process' tab.

You will be required to provide a car for use in connection with the duties of this post and must be insured for business use. However, we may consider you if you cannot drive because of a disability.

In return Lancashire County Council offers a range of benefits, which can be found on LCC Vacancies website.

We reserve the right to close down a vacancy early, before the closing date, if we receive sufficient applications.

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