Young Persons Team Leader

Viaorg; Chester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization is seeking a Young Peoples Team Leader to oversee a vibrant outreach team that supports young individuals across Cheshire West and Chester. This role entails strong management and leadership, effective intervention strategies, and collaboration with various professionals to improve outcomes for young people. The ideal candidate will be passionate about making a difference and possess excellent organizational and communication skills.

Benefits

30 days annual leave

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Financial perks

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience with substance misuse interventions.
• Ability to network with professionals and maintain partnerships.
• Experience in delivering effective early intervention.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Young People Practitioners.
• Deliver high-quality interventions to young people.
• Safeguard individuals in contact with services.

Skills

Management skills

Leadership skills

Communication

Job description

Are you ready to lead a passionate team making a real difference in young people’s lives across Cheshire West and Chester?

The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Young Peoples Team Leader within our Cheshire West and Chester Team., Part of a wider management team, you will be responsible for leading the team who work with young people, supporting staff and those who use our service.

Key duties required for the role include:

• excellent management and leadership skills.
• responsible for the line management of a Young People Practitioners.
• holding a small case load delivering high quality substance misuse interventions to young people across Cheshire West & Chester.
• deliver effective early intervention and prevention work.
• liaise and network with a wide range of professionals working with young people across Cheshire West & Chester maintaining effective partnerships and working agreements to improve the outcomes for young people.
• safeguard those that come in contact with our services including staff.

The Service

Via Cheshire West & Chester Young Persons Service is a vibrant substance misuse service, creative and passionate. Our teams work collaboratively to provide valuable support to young people within Cheshire West.

We are an outreach service working out in the community, with 1-2-1 key working sessions in schools, college’s and meet with young people children in centres/school etc.

Location

The core hours of this role will be Monday - Friday 9am until 5pm (with flexibility available) and there may be some occasional out of hours work.

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Via we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 6 July at midnight.

You will need to be available for Interview week commencing 7 July.

All our applications are sifted by humans. Please send us applications that reflect your own knowledge, experience and values and not applications that have been generated by artificial intelligence (AI).

Via welcomes enquiries from everyone, and we value diversity in our workplace. Our commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process.

We’re a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. We offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our jobs, please confirm in the personal statement part of our application form that you are applying under this scheme.

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