Team Leader - Taunton, United Kingdom - Somerset County Council

Somerset County Council

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Taunton, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Description

Some key information

There is flexibility around core working hours to account for some weekend working, court duty and the occasional requirement for out of hours support for your staff team. Primary core hours are Monday
Friday 8.30am 5pm.
30 days' annual leave
Somerset Council values professional development and offers a range of training and development opportunities to its staff
The post will require travel and locality working across the county, especially Bridgwater and Taunton.

In our work we strive to use a strengths-based approach, you will support your team to 'get alongside' young people, families, and partners to help them identify what it is they want to change and why, and then build sustainable interventions and plans for change.

In accordance with the legal and statutory duties for youth justice services you will need to lead and direct work to be preventative, responsive, and service user focused.

You will ensure you and your team use creative and dynamic approaches to respond to youth criminality at the earliest opportunity.

What will I be doing?
We're working to improve the lives of Children, young people and their families in Somerset.

In the Youth Justice team our resource is focussed to reducing emerging and impactful criminal behaviours and support young people to improve their lives and reduce the impact of youth crime on the community.

Here in Somerset - and you'll be a key part of that.

Your day-to-day work will involve:
- effectively leading and managing the team through a positive, committed, adaptable and confident approach.
- establishing strong working relationships with your team and professionals who work with children, young people, and their families across multi-disciplinary teams.
- demonstrating sound analysis and decision making in dealing with complex cases which a requires a high level of knowledge and understanding of safeguarding to prevent escalation to statutory services.
- working flexibly, with autonomy whilst ensuring the team are fully supported and guided to reach their own decisions where appropriate.

What kind of experience or qualifications do I need?
We offer ongoing support, training and guidance to help you be the best you can be.

But it will really help if you:
- are educated to Degree level or equivalent qualification such as NVQ Level 6 in a relevant thematic area (such as youth justice, social work, probation, teaching, psychotherapy, psychology, youth work, health professions, education, domestic abuse, family work)

and
- have significant experience working with families with multiple and complex needs whilst maintaining an outcomes focus, preferably within the youth justice context.
- have evidence of a commitment to on-going professional development in their specialist field and to the principles of evidenced based practice.

We're proud to be here for the people of Somerset. And that means everyone in Somerset.

An important part of this is ensuring that we are as diverse and inclusive as the people and communities we serve.

What's in it for me?

We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset.

We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management.

As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

We promote a healthy worklife balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
Generous annual leave allowance, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave
Staff discounts in gyms.
Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.
A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
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Anything else I should know?
The salary range for this role is £39,186 - £43,421 per annum.

You will need to be able to travel to meet the requirements of this post and be available to work evenings and weekends on a rota basis.

For an informal chat about the role please contact:

A bit more about Somerset Council

We are a we're a hugely ambitious council, committed to improving lives for the residents, communities and businesses of Somerset.

And that's why we're working so hard to build a sustainable organisation with a culture that rewards, values and recognises our staff, and gives everyone here the opportunity to grow and develop, personally and professionally.

DBS information
This post requires a criminal background check via the Disclosure procedure.

Job Reference:
SCC04666