Children's Team Lead - Woking, United Kingdom - Your Sanctuary

Your Sanctuary

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Woking, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Your Sanctuary

Children's Team Lead

Salary circa £30,000 per annum depending upon experience

36 hours per week (Monday to Friday) with some flexibility required to attend meetings and/or undertake work outside of core hours plus an element of paid on-call responsibility.

We are looking for an experienced Children's Team Lead with strong people management skills and a passion for ensuring that children and young people affected by domestic abuse get the support they deserve.

Whether part of our refuge based Children's Service or in Community Outreach, you will be delivering and developing an effective therapeutic service, working closely with partner and external agencies, and managing a team of experienced children's support workers.

You will need to be able to demonstrate:

supervisory experience (of both people and services) within a trauma informed environment

- in depth knowledge of the issues facing children and young people affected by domestic abuse, violence or exploitation and the impact on them and their families
- strong organisational and IT skills

You must also:
- be able to act as Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
- have a full driving licence with access to a reliable car that can be used for work purposes and live within a 45 minute drive of our offices in Woking
- be able to undertake on-call duties as part of a rota

In return, we can offer training opportunities, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a contributory pension scheme, an employee assistance programme and a dynamic and engaging workplace.

Your Sanctuary is fully committed to the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and our recruitment practices will reflect this.

Successful applicants will be required to undergo a full reference and DBS process before any offer of employment is confirmed.

To apply, please send your CV and a covering letter.

In your covering letter please include a paragraph on how your skills, experience and/or knowledge enable you to meet the requirements for this post.

Please refer to the full job description/person specification and covering letter available on the Your Sanctuary website.

No agencies please.

Salary:
£30,000.00 per year

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