Youth Justice Team Leader

Description:

Service Care Solutions are looking for a Youth Justice Team Leader to work within the Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council on a 8-month contract.

Location: Stockport

Job Role/Responsibilities:
The Youth Justice Team Leader will act as one of the operational management leads for youth justice, serious violence reduction and targeted youth support services and delivery of associated services.

To act an operational management lead for youth justice, serious violence reduction, targeted youth support and associated delivery.
To be responsible for the operational coordination of youth justice, serious violence reduction and targeted youth support services across Stockport Family, Safer Stockport Partnership, and key partnership agencies.
To line manage a multi-agency team of staff to deliver services to prevent and reduce children and young people's offending and other risk-based behaviours and ensure their needs are safeguarded.
To ensure that youth justice, complex safeguarding, serious violence reduction and targeted youth support services are delivered in accordance with evidence-based practice, current guidance, and legislative and statutory requirements.
To take a lead responsibility in specified functional areas of operational service delivery.
To work across Greater Manchester with other GM Youth Justice Services on areas of GM-wide delivery as required.
To ensure that high quality services are provided to the courts as required; to develop close working relationships with relevant staff within the Youth and Crown Courts, Clerks to Justices and Crown Prosecution Service.Knowledge/Experience required:

Have at least two years recent experience of working in youth justice or a related field.
Evidenced experience of management including structured staff supervision, performance management and multi-agency work
Specific management of staff working within a court-based and/or community-based setting
Knowledge of current crime and disorder current policies and their relationship to the management and delivery of youth justice and targeted youth support services
Knowledge of relevant criminal justice and children's safeguarding legislation and guidance and ability to interpret and apply in the line management of staff.
Understanding of risk, safety & well-being factors related to offending, exploitation, other vulnerabilities, and risk-based behaviour.
Knowledge of principles of evidence-based practice and other research and developments relevant to youth justice and targeted youth support
Ability to analyse and interpret statistics and other information relating to service and individual performance.
Ability to represent the service internally and externally.If you are interested in this role or want further discussion, please contact Lewis O'Donnell either via email: or tel: (phone number removed). Alternatively, if you have any friend or colleagues that might be interested, please feel free to refer them as we a have a referral scheme in place of up to £400