Team Leader (Outreach Services) - Witness Service Lancashire

Citizens Advice; Burnley; Hybrid; GBP 23,000 - 29,000; Part time

Job summary

Citizens Advice is seeking a Team Leader (Outreach Services) to manage a team delivering outreach support to vulnerable witnesses in Lancashire. This part-time role involves regular travel, effective team management, and partnership development to enhance service delivery standards for impactful community support.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing and developing performance of a team of volunteers and/or staff.
• Experience monitoring and maintaining service delivery against targets.
• Evidence of building effective working relationships with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Outreach Support Service to Vulnerable and Intimidated Witnesses.
• Manage, motivate, and develop a team of volunteers.
• Develop and maintain local stakeholder relationships.

Skills

Management Skills

Communication Skills

Team Development

Change Management

Job description

Team Leader (Outreach Services) - Witness Service Lancashire

Team Leader (Outreach Services) - Witness Service Lancashire

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Salary: £23,728 actual base salary per annum (£28,671 full time equivalent per annum)

Employment type: Permanent

Hours Per Week 30 hours

Location: The role is home based but will need to cover regular visits to our witness services across Lancashire with regular travel to Burnley and Blackburn. To ensure the requirements of the role can be achieved with a reasonable distance to travel, you will live in/around the areas that you will be covering.

Citizens Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. Through our national network of charities, we give people the knowledge and the confidence they need to find their way forward – whoever they are, and whatever their problem.

Do you want to work for an organisation that makes a difference, every single day, to people from all walks of life? The people that turn to Citizens Advice need help overcoming an obstacle in their lives – from debt to evictions to trouble at work – and you can be key to them getting the support they need in the quickest, easiest, and most effective way.

About us

The Witness Service has over 260 staff and 3000 volunteers and offers free, independent, impartial and confidential support and information to 15,000 witnesses each month to give evidence in every criminal court in England and Wales.

Last year, Citizens Advice helped 2.6 million people face-to-face, by phone, email and webchat, and we received 25 million visits to our digital advice content. We solve 7 in 10 clients' problems, and 4 in 5 tell us that advice improved their lives.

The Role

As Team Leader (Outreach Services) you will be in a crucial role, responsible for the delivery of a pre-trial Outreach Support Service to Vulnerable and Intimidated Witnesses in a defined geographical area.

You will manage, motivate and develop a team of volunteers who support vulnerable witnesses in their journey through the criminal justice system.

You will also develop and maintain key local stakeholder relationships with a view to enhancing partnership working, and service delivery standards and effectiveness.

Who we are looking for

Are you an experienced manager of staff or volunteers looking for a new opportunity?

Are you a great manager of people, who is passionate about supporting vulnerable individuals?

We are looking for someone who is a great motivator who thrives on leading teams to deliver positive outcomes. Someone with excellent management and communication skills, who can adapt to and manage change. Experience of working to agreed targets is essential for this role along with working to tight deadlines.

We look for people to help us improve and transform our organisation. We can offer you the opportunity to make a genuine impact and create lasting change within an organisation that makes a difference in the lives of millions of people every year.

To apply

To apply for the role, please submit an anonymous CV and anonymous cover letter (of no more than 2 pages) that explains, with examples, how you meet the following criteria:

• Proven experience of effectively managing and developing performance of a team of volunteers and/or staff, including recruitment, and supporting staff and/or volunteers in dealing with difficult situations.
• Proven experience of monitoring and maintaining service delivery of a team against agreed targets, identifying opportunities for improvement and implementing change to achieve this improvement, though effective strategic planning.
• Evidence of having built and developed effective and beneficial working relationships with external and internal stakeholders.

Provisionally, we are looking to hold interviews week commencing 30th June 2025.

This post is subject to enhanced vetting and barring check. Some roles may require a Counter Terrorist Check.

The National Citizens Advice operates from offices in England and Wales, with 4 regional offices based in Cardiff, London, Birmingham and Leeds, therefore all successful applicants must be based within England or Wales.

Please be aware that Citizens Advice is not a sponsoring organisation. Therefore the successful applicant must already possess the right to work in the UK or be able to secure the right to work in the UK independently.

We have been awarded the top charity in Third sectors' employer index, where it's recognised that Citizens Advice is an organization that not only prioritizes the people we serve but also values the wellbeing of its employees.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is of strategic importance within the organisation and recognised as integral to all we do as a service. Central to pursuing our EDI mission is building diverse and inclusive teams in which everyone has a sense of belonging. We believe inclusion is a social justice issue - a principle that underpins all our EDI work. To that end, we particularly welcome applications from people we would like to see better represented in our organisation and sector - people of colour, LGBTQ+ people and disabled people. We follow the social model of disability. We will offer an interview to disabled candidates who indicate they wish their application to be considered under our Disability Confident Interview Commitment where they meet our selection criteria in their application. Some of our roles attract a high volume of applications and in some circumstances where it is not practicable or appropriate, we may limit the number of interviews offered to disabled and non-disabled candidates. We will provide reasonable adjustments as needed.

Citizens Advice seeks to redeploy internal staff who are at risk or under notice of redundancy and will prioritise them in the recruitment process where necessary. If you have been confirmed as at risk or under notice of redundancy please ensure you indicate this in the at-risk box in your application.

Please note, in the event of a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the application early.

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