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Youth Early Help Team Manager

Camden

£32/hr

Start date: ASAP

Full Time: Mon - Fri 36/hrs a week

Contract 3-6 months with local authorities

The Youth Early Help Service (YEH) is part of the Camden Integrated Youth Support Service within the Children and Learning Directorate. Youth Early Help is an adolescent focused service committed to supporting young people's successful transition into adulthood. Through the multi-disciplinary practitioners, made up of Youth workers, Connexions and Career Advisers, Substance Misuse workers and the YEH case managers, the service offers universal, targeted and specialist services to young people and their families. The aim of the service is to identify and respond to emerging problems for young people and by working with them, their family and their support network, offer tailor made support to improve outcome and build resilience, so that young people stay safe, be healthy, remain in education, training or employment and be able to play a positive role in their communities.

The purpose of the Youth Hub team manager role is to provide strategic and operational leadership for the development and delivery of the youth hub, ensuring the hub is offering a range of universal and targeted support services in line with local and national standards.

The Team manager will be responsible for:

* Managing all aspect of youth hub offer, this include overseeing the development and delivery of youth work programme and practices as well as targeted youth support practices

* Leading and managing a team of multidisciplinary youth practitioners, ensuring they are supported, motivated and empowered to deliver high quality support to children and young people in the local community.

* Ensuring the hub is providing a wide range of youth work programme and targeted support that address differing needs and abilities

* Providing management oversight of cases held by the team, ensuring risk and vulnerability are addressed appropriately and in timely manner and appropriate support provided to young people and families in order to achieve desired outcomes.

* Utilising effective planning, monitoring and evaluation techniques, analyse and assess the quality of youth work and case work being delivered through regular reviews, evaluation of practice against quality assurance and local and national inspection frameworks, taking action when required to address work that falls below a satisfactory standard

* Ensuring service users are involved in all aspect of the work including in the assessment, planning and delivery of interventions and programmes, ensuring that the service users feedback inform service development and delivery.

Essential:

Professional qualification in any of the following professions:

Youth and Community work
Youth Justice/ Probation
Connexions and Career
A relevant qualification such as Psychology, Counselling, or Substance misuse
Social Work- (HCPC -registered