Team Manager

JOB TITLE: Team Manager (PO7)

SERVICE: Youth Justice

£55,620 - £58,692 (includes market supplement)

Closing date: 05/1/2025 at 23:59

WE ARE NEWHAM

We’re a vibrant, dynamic, culturally rich London Borough with a young population and limitless potential. Newham a challenging yet rewarding place to work supporting young people who are involved or at risk of being involved with the youth justice system. We are steadfastly committed to our workforce being representative of the families that we work with, and we are taking coordinated, meaningful and focused action to develop an inclusive culture because we believe this is at the heart of enabling diversity in all respects, including diversity of thought. We are taking positive actions to challenge all forms of discrimination and injustice to help make Newham a fairer and more equitable place for children and families to live, learn and thrive. 

We’re building a fairer Newham through investment, co-production and by continuously developing our 'Circles of Support' practice model. Newham’s Youth Justice aims to prevent crime, and the fear of crime, by ensuring that services are available to support children and young people in the criminal justice system whilst ensuring the needs of victims and our communities are taken into account and that we look to tackle disproportionality wherever we find it.

ABOUT THE JOB

Newham Youth Justice Service puts children and families at the heart of all that we do. You will support the Service Manager and Head of Service to maintain effective systems for monitoring, reviewing and evaluating staff and own performance against the team’s objectives. People are at the heart of everything we do in Newham. Our core values are respect, aspiration, empowering culture, integrity, working together. We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced manager who is willing to work within Newham Youth Justice Service’s values bringing a Child First approach to our Service delivery.

As part of the role, you will support with developing and embedding a performance culture that delivers results through rigorous challenge, disciplined execution and continual improvement, ensuring that resources are targeted on business priorities and meeting customer needs.

ABOUT YOU

Are you an enthusiastic, forward thinking Child First leader, then this job is for you?  You will have a proven record of leadership and management offering supervision to practitioners; and you will have experience of working within children’s sectors or transferable skills that will support this area of work.  You will be experienced in quality assurance and providing management oversight to the team.  You will have experience of working with partners and in multi-agency settings. 

As a leader, you will contribute to the development of all aspects of YJS prevention services and statutory YJS services including interventions for children, parents and those who have been harmed, ensuring non-oppressive practice, anti-racist practice and equality of opportunity for the delivery of effective Court and core services.  You will be a flexible, agile and inclusive leader who can provide support and guidance across the Service. 

WHY WORK WITH US?

We’ve been working hard to make Newham a great place to work.

• A commitment to addressing disproportionality wherever we find it.
• We’re a GOOD local authority focused on reaching excellence.
• We offer genuinely flexible/hybrid working as long as children and young people are seen.
• Stability: 100% of our Senior Managers and 71% of Team Managers are permanent.
• Our firmly established practice model, Circles of Support, was recently nominated for the prestigious MJ Award for Innovation in Children’s Services and allows systemic, restorative practice to flourish.
• Career progression is possible with Newham; we promoted 30 internal colleagues in 2023 and have already promoted 30 to date in 2024.
• A competitive package £55,620 - £58,692 
• Oyster card/parking permit for business use.
• Wellbeing service, leisure and discount benefits (Council scheme).
• Travel season ticket loan, cycle scheme, Local Authority pension.

TO APPLY

To apply please submit your CV and a supporting statement (1-2 sides of A4) through our online recruitment portal. 

Shortlisting decisions will be based on candidates' relevant experience and on candidates' suitability for the role in line with the person specification, as described in their supporting statement and CV.

Closing date: 05/1/2025 at 23:59

Interviews: Week commencing 13.01.2025

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If you have any questions about the recruitment process or want to discuss joining Newham Children’s Services with one of our managers, please contact our Recruitment Team.

Additional Information

We are committed to creating an inclusive, anti-racist environment for all. When you apply for a job at Newham, your application is considered on its merits regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity or sexual orientation. If you share our vision and values, and you bring the experience and skills we need, that’s all that matters to us.

The London Borough of Newham has important responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. If you are appointed to a job that involves working with these groups, you may be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

Please attach your supporting statement, explaining in no more than x2 A4 sides why and how you meet the criteria for this role.

We practice anonymised recruitment. Please ensure that you remove all personal information from any documents that you upload.

The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn.