Youth Justice Service Manager

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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 KPI's 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 can offer you competitive pay, our award-winning package of Employee Benefits (including salary sacrifice schemes), access to the excellent Local Government Pension Scheme, as well as 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.

* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.

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 and 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 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.

You can find the job description for this post here

At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.

For informal enquiries please contact Wilf Fearon, Head of Early Help Services, wilf.fearon@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

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).

If you have any technical issues when completing your application, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home

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About Us

Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.

In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:

• 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years' service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
• Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
• Smart Working - to support your work life balance
• Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!

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.