Job Title: Assitant Team Manager- Youth Justice Team

Hourly Pay Rate: £26.15 - £30.21

Work Pattern: 2 days a week in the office

Location: Constantine House, Constantine Road, Ipswich IP1 2DH

Lengh of Assignment: 6 Months

The Role

The Suffolk Youth Justice Service (SYJS) works with children, young people who are in, or on the edge of the Youth Justice System. The service also works with parents and carers and the victims of youth crime. SYJS is a multi-agency partnership hosted by Suffolk County Council.

The aim is to prevent offending by children and young people and protect the public from the harm caused by their offending. At the same time the service works to ensure the safety and wellbeing of these children and young people and to enhance their life aspirations and opportunities. Suffolk Youth Justice Service is working towards becoming a trauma-informed organization. This means that we acknowledge the complexity of trauma and the impact it can have on the children, young people and the families that we work with. As part of this approach, we seek to understand the experiences of our children, young people and their families, as well as the experiences of our own practitioners, and use this understanding to shape our working practices.

Key requirements

• Responsible for assisting the Operations Manager in the operational delivery of multi-agency teams and/or delivering specialist programmes and projects that address offending by children and young people eg; the Sexually Harmful Behaviour Service.

• The operational multi-agency teams offer a range of services to young people and their carers including structured intervention programmes, based on effective practice principles that aim to prevent offending risk of harm to others and anti-social behaviour

• The operational teams are staffed by a mix of employed and seconded staff from a range of partner agencies

• This includes staff line management responsibility, including seconded staff from partner agencies.

• Lead responsibility for developing and maintaining local links with partners / stakeholders eg; police, probation, courts etc

• Lead responsibility for an area of practice and / or project delivery

• Responsibility for deputising in the absence of the Operations Manager and leading a multi-agency team

Skills & experience

• Experience within Youth Justice
• Essential Car driver with full UK licence.

If you thrive to make a difference and have 3 years Social worker experience and this is the role for you, then we would love to hear from you.