Service Leader Youth Justice and Complex Safeguarding
MB2 (£59,395 - £67,990)
37 hours, Full-Time
Temporary (up to 12 months)
Hybrid: Central House Offices and homeworking around the needs of the service.
Application Deadline: 6th August 2025 11:59pm
Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Shortlisting Date: 7th August 2025
Interview Date: w/c 11th August 2025
Interview Type: Face to Face Interview
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Join us at Stockport Council MJ Local Authority of the Year 2025
Your Role
Stockport Council is seeking a dynamic and experienced Service Leader to join our award-winning team, recently named MJ Local Authority of the Year 2025. This is a pivotal leadership role within our Youth Justice and Complex Safeguarding Service, part of the integrated Stockport Family model.
You will provide strategic leadership and management oversight for Youth Justice, Complex Safeguarding & Missing from Home within Stockport Family, ensuring that a multi-agency integrated approach delivers improved outcomes for children, young people and their families improving participation, family functioning and resilience.
You will lead a multi-agency team delivering high-quality, evidence-based services to prevent offending and reoffending among children and young people and be passionate about keeping children safe.
You will be creative and ambitious working with partners to deliver Stockport’s Youth Justice Plan, preparation for HMI inspection and contribute to Greater Manchester’s strategic initiatives.
About You
- Recent experience of leading and managing youth justice, exploitation and/or equivalent services at a strategic level.
- Experience of managing, motivating and leading multi-agency services building on the strengths of different disciplines, competing priorities and driving forward good practice, whilst maintaining resilience and focus.
- Significant recent experience of oversight and response to regulation and HMI inspections.
- Experience of service planning and of leading change/redesign programmes.
- Extensive knowledge of relevant legislation, policy and guidance in relation to youth justice services, complex safeguarding, managing risk and delivering intensive services to complex families.
- High level of communication skills, both oral and written, with the ability to analyse and interpret information and data and to present to a wider audience.
- Ability to think and operate strategically, be skilled in negotiating, influencing, and sustaining effective strategic relationships with partnership agencies, elected members, other local authorities, government departments.
- Experience of co-production and involving children and families in planning and delivery of services.
- Social Work qualification with registration from the relevant regulatory body.
- Management and leadership qualification/training in a relevant field
- Can work flexibly, including out-of-hours as part of a management duty rota.
About Us
- Working to the Council’s values and behaviours by:
- Keeping the people of Stockport at the heart of what we do
- Succeeding as a team, collaborating with colleagues and partners
- Driving things forward with ambition, creativity and confidence
- Showing value and respect to our colleagues, partners and customers.
- Flexible and hybrid working
- Strong leadership team
- Access to the councils’ benefits, wellbeing and support services
- Opportunities for training and professional career development
- Working to the Council’s values and behaviours by:
- Keeping the people of Stockport at the heart of what we do
- Succeeding as a team, collaborating with colleagues and partners
- Driving things forward with ambition, creativity and confidence
- Showing value and respect to our colleagues, partners and customers.
At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.
If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Jeanette Warburton jeanette.warburton@stockport.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.
The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
This post is politically restricted under the terms of the 1989 Local Government and Housing Act. This dictates that you must seek the council’s permission before taking up any additional appointments or positions.
Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not currently qualify.
Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed to be shortlisted for Assessment if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.
Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://www.greater.jobs/our-guaranteed-assessment-scheme
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