Adolescence Team Manager - Team 4

TN United Kingdom; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 49,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for an Adolescence Team Manager in Nottingham City Youth Justice Service. The role involves overseeing the delivery of youth justice services and implementing improvements in service quality. Suitable candidates will have relevant qualifications and substantial management experience, conveying a commitment to safeguarding and performance excellence.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Inclusive work culture

Great leave entitlement

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in a supervisory role within children services is required.
• Experience in motivating and developing staff for improved service delivery.
• Knowledge of youth justice legislation and a strong understanding of safeguarding.

Responsibilities

• Manage assessment, planning, and delivery of youth justice services.
• Ensure compliance with safeguarding and children's services standards.
• Provide reflective case supervision and performance management.

Skills

Management

Supervisory Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Knowledge of Youth Justice

Motivational Skills

Legislation Knowledge

Education

Dip SW/CQSW, Dip PS or equivalent

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Adolescence Team Manager - Team 4, Nottingham

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Leicestershire County Council

Location:

Nottingham, United Kingdom

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Other

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

27.05.2025

Expiry Date:

11.07.2025

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Job Description:

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 9am - 5pm (Monday to Friday) and a requirement to working evenings and weekends and some public holidays as per a rota, over 7 days, to provide a flexible and responsive service, including on-call arrangements.

Worker Type: Hybrid Worker

Salary: Starting salary £49,764 (Level One) rising to £52,805 (Level Four) on the first year anniversary, subject to satisfactory completion of a probation period (pro rata for part time)

Location: Citywide

*We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high volume of applicants. Early application is encouraged.

Thank you for your interest in joining Nottingham City Council. We have already launched an exciting period of transformation across the Council, aligned to our recent Improvement Plan.

We are committed to overcoming the challenges of recent years whilst setting an ambitious, forward-thinking course for the city’s future.

With a clear vision and a strong resolve, we are committed to creating an aspirational environment where every child and young person in Nottingham has the opportunity to achieve, learn, and be safe in their family environment.

Nottingham Children’s Services are at a critical point in our transformation journey. We are transforming our approach to delivering early help, we have taken on board learning from recent inspections and the national Care Review and are focused on embedding continuous improvement across our services.

We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…

Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.

In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. 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 .

About the Role

Nottingham City Youth Justice Service are recruiting for a new Adolescence Team Manager. The post holder is responsible for service delivery within the Youth Justice Service, managing the assessment, planning, coordination and delivery of city-wide youth justice, early help and crime prevention services in relation to children, young people and their families.

You will take responsibility for the team’s overall performance, driving service improvement and development to promote a culture of continual improvement in the quality, diversity, and performance management of services by setting SMART targets, ensuring safe practice, robust assessments, management of risk, safeguarding, and effective evidence-based interventions.

You will lead the delivery of high-quality services and provide reflective case supervision and expertise to colleagues to develop excellent evidence-based practice through a robust performance management and quality assurance framework within a multi-disciplinary team including seconded staff from partner agencies.
You will work innovatively and collaboratively with other partners from statutory and community provisions across the city to ensure high standards of public protection and safeguarding to reduce the level of risk and impact of youth offending on children, families and communities.

You will deputise for the Service manager as required and support the Service manager in service planning activities, reviewing the service to ensure effective service delivery, value for public money and potential efficiencies maximised.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

• Dip SW/CQSW, Dip PS or equivalent level degree in a relevant children service (., education, health, youth work, youth justice)
• Substantial experience as a supervisor or manager experience in supervisor role or equivalent) in a relevant children service and knowledge and experience of current legislation, issues and good practice in respect of children, young people and families.
• Experience of implementing best practice in supervision and successfully dealing with poor performance in services and individuals.
• Experience of motivating and developing others to achieve continual improvement in service performance and delivery.
• Knowledge, understanding and skilled in key Youth Justice legislation, case management and delivery of interventions to high-risk, complex caseloads.
• Ability to work effectively with complex partnerships and develop relationships across statutory and third sector partners including to facilitate, influence and support the third sector to deliver high quality services.
• Sophisticated knowledge and understanding of legislation, policies and practice guidance relating to Youth Justice, Safeguarding and children and familiesand knowledge of diversity issues (including adverse childhood experiences, child development, trauma, neurodiversity, race and ethnicity and gender) and how they impact on delivery of effective services to a range of service users, partners, stakeholders and colleagues
  

- A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

- The role requires you to participate in the on call rota.

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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 for applicants page.

For informal enquiriesplease contact Thomas Cullen, Adolescence Service Manager by telephone on 0115 9159400 or by email at

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:Week commencing 9th June 2025

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