Child & Youth Services Manager (FTC)

Homerun B.V.; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 61,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension (My Future Fund)?

25 days annual leave

Company Day: Good Friday

Doctor visits: €35 towards 2 GP visits

Digital Doctor

Education Support

Training & Development

Wellbeing App

EAP: 24/7 counselling

Wellbeing Days

Job summary

Saoirse Domestic Violence Services is seeking a Child & Youth Services Manager in Dublin for a fixed-term 6-month period. You will lead the Child & Youth Services team across refuge and outreach settings, ensuring trauma-informed, high-quality services for children, young people and families.

The role focuses on staff leadership, service planning, funding development and cross-agency collaboration, with a pro-rated salary of €68,055.62 per annum and full-time hours.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for Child & Youth Services, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, trauma-informed services for children and young people experiencing domestic violence and abuse.
• Lead and manage the Child & Youth Services team across multiple SDVS sites, including refuge and outreach settings, recognising and responding to different needs and models of practice.
• Provide effective line management, support and performance management to Child & Youth Services staff, promoting best practice and professional development.
• Facilitate and contribute to regular team meetings, ensuring effective communication and shared learning.
• Oversee case management processes, reviewing care plans, supporting staff with complex cases, and ensuring referrals and inter-agency working.
• Oversee and guide staff practice, ensuring compliance with SDVS policies and safeguarding requirements, and updating policies as needed.
• Ensure the highest standards of professional care and that children's learning, development and wellbeing remain central to service delivery.
• Build and manage a model of best international practice in responding to the needs of children and young people experiencing all forms of domestic violence and abuse.
• Support staff in delivering the INSPIRE Family Project, including assessments, care planning and referrals for additional services.
• Support Child & Youth Services staff in delivering keyworking and providing emotional support and opportunities for children to express their feelings.

Job description

At Saoirse Domestic Violence Services, we're looking for a Child & Youth Services Manager to join our team for a fixed-term period of 6 months.

Full-time

About the job

The Child & Youth Services Manager is a key member of the Senior Management Team, reporting directly to the Director of Services. The role provides staff leadership and management, alongside strategic oversight to ensure the delivery of safe, high-quality services to children, young people and their families.

The Child & Youth Services Manager leads and manages the Child & Youth Services team in developing and delivering safe, supportive and engaging services, with a strong emphasis on child and parent participation in the planning and delivery of activities. This includes overseeing the development and implementation of structured domestic violence and abuse programmes for children of all ages and contributing to SDVS's prevention work.

The Child & Youth Services Manager ensures children’s learning, development and wellbeing remain central to service delivery and supports the team to build respectful, trusting, nurturing and equitable relationships with children, families and communities through best practice. They are responsible for staff line management and supervision, delivery of annual service plans aligned with the organisational Strategic Plan, securing funding for new initiatives and projects, and developing partnerships and networks with relevant external agencies.

What we offer you

Salary: The Salary for this position will be a pro-rated equivalent to €68,055.62 per annum. Salary is paid weekly.

Location: Dublin.

Team: This role is part of the Child & Youth Services Team and the Senior Management Team.

Benefits: All employee benefits outlined below.

Commitment to work-life balance and staff wellbeing.

Hours of work: 39h per week, 09:00 - 17:00 Monday - Thursday, 09:00 - 16:00 Friday.

Employee Benefits

Pension: The company will contribute into My Future Fund State pension should you be eligible.

Annual leave: As an employee of SDVS, you will receive 25 days annual leave per annum (pro-rated for duration of Fixed-Term).

Company Day: At SDVS, Good Friday is offered as an additional day off.

Doctor visits: Employee well-being is important to us at SDVS. We offer employees €35 contribution towards 2 GP visits per year.

Digital Doctor: Free access to a digital doctor for employees and their families.

Education Support: At SVDS we offer an Education Assistance policy for employees to apply for funding towards further education.

Training & Development: Access to excellent training opportunities and continuous professional development.

Well-being App: All employees have access to the Wisdom app to support employees in all 4 pillars of their well-being.

EAP: We offer a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme for employees and their families to avail of counselling support confidentially.

Wellbeing Days: We host several employee wellbeing activities across the year for employees to take time out to focus on team building and their own wellbeing.

Key Responsibilities

To provide strategic and operational leadership for Child & Youth Services, ensuring the development and delivery of safe, high-quality, trauma-informed services for children and young people experiencing domestic violence and abuse.

To lead and manage the Child & Youth Services team across multiple SDVS sites, including both refuge and outreach settings, recognising and responding to the different needs, contexts and models of practice within each service.

To provide effective line management, support and performance management to Child & Youth Services staff, promoting best practice, professional development and high standards of service delivery.

To facilitate and contribute to regular team meetings, ensuring effective communication, shared learning, service coordination and follow-through on agreed actions.

To oversee case management processes, including reviewing care plans and case progress, supporting staff with complex cases, contributing to case management meetings and ensuring appropriate referrals and inter-agency working.

To oversee and guide staff practice, ensuring compliance with SDVS policies, procedures, safeguarding requirements and relevant legislation, and to continually review and update Child & Youth Services policies and procedures in consultation with staff and senior management colleagues.

To ensure the highest standards of professional care and support are maintained and that children’s learning, development and wellbeing remain central to service delivery.

To build and manage a model of best international practice in responding to the needs of children and young people experiencing all forms of domestic violence and abuse.

To support staff in delivering the INSPIRE Family Project, including strengths- and needs-based assessments, care planning and referral of children and families requiring additional or more specialised services.

To support Child & Youth Services staff in the delivery of keyworking to children and young people, providing emotional support, social and emotional learning, and opportunities for children to express their feelings and experiences.

To supervise the delivery of the Parents Under Pressure parenting programme, providing regular