Youth Justice Operational Manager

Job Category : Social Care – Qualified

Location : Magdalen House, Bootle, L20 3NJ, Sefton MBC

Hours Per Week : 24.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:30

Salary: £24.86

Sefton Youth Justice Service is looking for an experienced Operational Manager for short period to cover sickness.

You will be experienced in all matters relating to youth justice, using the Childview system and chairing risk and welfare management meetings for children. You will have experience of managing and supervising staff, delivering management oversight on cases and quality assuring youth justice work. The role will involve contributing to partnership meetings and statutory boards or panels. This is safeguarding role and we will expect significant safeguarding knowledge and evidence of practical application. We would like you to start as soon as possible with an expected finish date of 21st October.

QUALIFICATIONS 

1. Professional Qualification in one of the recognised service areas   and/or significant managerial experience relevant to the delivery of the Core and Local offer.   

EXPERIENCE 

1. Experience of developing solutions that will enable the implementation of  key changes to service delivery  

2. Experienced line manager, able to evidence getting the most from direct reports. 

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS & ABILITIES 

1. Ability to demonstrate entrepreneurial leadership and the ability to perform across multiple teams and different service areas, driving continuous improvement and organisational change.  

2. Ability to deliver and implement strategy and policy  

3. Ability to apply solution focused approaches to problem solving and make decisions of a highly complex nature with due consideration of the associated risk factors. 

4. Ability to engage effectively with the community and partners to ensure satisfactory conflict resolution as appropriate and facilitating solution based resolutions and interventions  

5. Ability to undertake partnership working and identify future opportunities for collaboration with internal and/or external partners 

Ability to demonstrate innovative thinking against strategic challenges 

7. Ability to apply knowledge of change and or programme management methodologies and the techniques involved in managing a large and diverse workforce. 

8. Ability to plan/prioritise and sequence multiple and potentially conflicting priorities. 

9. Ability to work under pressure to deliver to deadlines. Ability to plan and organise own time, create work schedules, prioritise and set schedules for self and others.   

10. Excellent interpersonal skills in order to build support for change across the community and partners with effective outcomes for residents  

11. Ability to thrive in a fast moving environment and be able to deal with a varied and high-profile workload 

12. Ability to engage employees, partners and the community  as part of the vision and to utilise coaching techniques to motivate and build confidence of staff