Youth Justice Team Manager

About the job

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, plus bank holidays
• The post will require travel and locality working across the county, especially Yeovil and Shepton Mallet.
• Permanent for 37 hours per week

Somerset Council values professional development and offers a range of training and development opportunities to its staff

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 supporting 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.
• ensuring the team apply a solution focused approach whilst providing practical advice to intervene, prevent and proportionately address issues impact in the context of Youth Justice.
• 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.

We welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team. You can always contact the hiring manager for a chat if there’s anything you want to talk about before you apply.

What is 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 work-life 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.
• My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more.

DBS check

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

Supporting documents and information

The salary range for this role is £40,476 – £44,711 per annum (£43,476 – £47,711 per annum inclusive of a £3,000 per annum recruitment allowance, currently payable until 31/03/2027).

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:

Sam Fahey, Head of Service Prevention & Youth Justice, Contact Number 07977411298, Email samantha.fahey@somerset.gov.uk

Interviews are scheduled for 24/07/2025

When completing your application/CV please provide your full employment history and ensure that any gaps in employment are explained. Please start with your current or most recent employment.

If you have all the information you need, just hit the apply button – we can’t wait to hear from you.

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