Head of Youth Justice and Communities

An exciting opportunity has arisen following the re-commissioning of youth support services within Gloucestershire. Gloucestershire County Council is now looking to appoint someone into this post permanently. If you feel you have the skills, knowledge and experience to meet the requirements of this role then we look forward to hearing from you.

This is a permanent role that will report directly to the Assistant Director for East Gloucestershire.

The successful candidate will play a key part in children’s services leadership to provide oversight of the following:

- leading and embedding systemic practice with the youth justice service
- enabling children to remain with birth families wherever possible
- protecting children who experience or are on the cusp of offending and the criminal justice system
- acting as corporate parent to children unable to remain within birth families
- promote the “child first” approach
- providing system leadership as a statutory safeguarding partner

Head of Service role summary

Leading your teams in delivering a culture of high-quality practice that achieves good outcomes for vulnerable children and young people, you will establish clear goals and expectations in line with GCC priorities, provide challenging and supportive line management to ensure these are met, and hold their direct reports to account.

You will:

- line manage several managers/service leads with responsibilities for delivering the youth justice agenda in line with the Youth Justice Board.

- be accountable for the rigorous implementation of a quality assurance framework to monitor and review performance (both compliance and quality), take action to build on strengths and respond to areas for improvement to support and liaise with the area manager to feed into their high-level service delivery planning.

If you would like to discuss the role further then please email to Julie Miles Julie.Miles@gloucestershire.gov.uk (Assisant Director for East Gloucestershire, Disabled Childens team and TACS).

Additional Information

This position is subject to a DBS check.

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.