Youth Justice Team Manager

Are you an inspiring leader who believes children deserve the opportunity to build better futures?

The Youth Justice Partnership is looking for an exceptional leader to join our management team as a Youth Justice Team Leader, helping to shape and deliver a high-performing service that puts children first, supports victims, and strengthens communities.

This is an opportunity to influence practice, develop staff, and drive positive outcomes for children, young people and families who may be at some of the most challenging points in their lives.

As a Team Leader, you will provide leadership and oversight across a diverse range of youth justice services, supporting practitioners to deliver high-quality and relationship-based interventions. You will champion a Child First approach, ensuring children are recognised for their strengths, potential and individuality, while holding them accountable in ways that promote long-term positive change.

You will play a key role in shaping professional practice, supporting complex decision-making, managing risk, maintaining high standards of performance, and fostering a culture of learning, reflection and continuous improvement. Working closely with partners across children's services, health, education, police, courts and the voluntary sector, you will help create effective solutions that improve outcomes for children, protect communities and support victims of youth crime.

You will ensure our restorative and victim-focused services are meaningful, accessible and responsive, helping victims feel heard, supported and involved throughout their journey.

We're looking for someone who:

• Is passionate about improving outcomes for children, young people and families.
• Has substantial experience working within youth justice, children's social care, safeguarding, or a related field.
• Can provide confident leadership and oversight of complex, high-risk and high-profile cases.
• Has experience of supervising, developing and motivating staff to achieve excellent outcomes.
• Understands Child First principles and can translate these into everyday practice.
• Demonstrates sound judgement, resilience and the ability to make decisions in challenging situations.
• Can build strong partnerships, influence others and constructively challenge where necessary to achieve the best outcomes for children.
• Is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, creating environments where children, families and colleagues feel respected, valued and heard.
• Has a genuine commitment to restorative approaches and ensuring victims' voices remain at the heart of service delivery.

Why Join Us?

You'll be part of a service that is ambitious for its children, committed to learning and improvement, and determined to deliver meaningful change. This is a unique opportunity to influence practice across the partnership, develop others, and help shape the future of youth justice services.

Please see attached job description and employee specification which you should refer to when completing your application to demonstrate you meet the essential criteria for the role.

For an informal discussion, please contact Kevin Heath at Kev.Heath@northlincs.gov.uk

Candidates must be able to evidence their right to work in the UK. Please note the council does not hold a sponsor licence to sponsor people to work in the UK.

As an employer, we promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from existing and prospective employees or volunteers. Recruitment to this post will follow our safer recruitment procedure which includes us requesting references prior to interview and a DBS check.