Job Description

Position reference: 50100934

Directorate: Children's Services | Service: Education, Early Start & Prevention

Salary

: 54,211 - 58,049

Working Arrangements

: Agile - minimum 3 days in the office

Hours per week

: 37

Contract type:

Permanent

We are happy to talk flexible working arrangements with you, please get in touch

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Employee rewards and benefits

Closing date

: 01/08/2025 at 23:59



The successful candidate will be required to speak English to an appropriate standard.

This post requires an Enhanced DBS Check

If you are currently living overseas or have lived overseas in the last five years please be aware, if you are the preferred candidate for the post, you will be required to apply for an overseas criminal records check from the country/countries you have resided in. If you experience difficulty in obtaining an overseas criminal record check please email

dbs@barnsley.gov.uk

When applying, please ensure you are prepared to start work with all the necessary legal documents, such as a valid visa, relevant to the type of work you will be undertaking. Please be aware that our organisation does not possess a Home Office license and, as a result, is unable to provide sponsorship for anyone seeking a visa as a skilled or temporary migrant worker.

Pensions Regulations have provisions to reduce pension payments in certain circumstances of those who return to work within local government service. If you are in receipt of a pension upon commencing employment with the authority, this may affect your pension entitlements and you should therefore seek advice from the relevant Pensions Authority.

At Barnsley Council you can start a career that makes a real difference to people's lives, helping our council and residents to be the best they can be.

We're an award-winning council and one of the biggest employers in the borough, supporting around 243,000 people. We put people at the heart of everything we do, and that includes our employees. As part of the team, we offer lots of benefits and rewards to support you to thrive and grow, like flexible working, employee discounts, support for your health and wellbeing, and opportunities for training and development to grow your career and develop your skills.

There's so much happening in our thriving borough, and now's the perfect time to join our excellent Education, Early Start & Prevention

team as we work to make Barnsley the place of possibilities.

We're an award-winning team and one of the biggest employers in the borough supporting around 243,000 people.

Working at Barnsley Council means being part of a team that makes a real difference to people's lives, where you can develop the skills you need to make change happen.

If you join the team you'll receive great pay alongside an excellent pension scheme. With flexible working we'll also support your work/life balance, helping you to adjust your hours and take time off when you need it.

We'll help you to develop your career and grow your skills with opportunities for training and development.

There's so much happening in our thriving borough and your talent and skills will help us make

Barnsley the place of possibilities

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Key to our success is working with our residents, partners, businesses and organisations and building these partnerships to bring about change in Barnsley.

About the Post:

We have a rare opportunity for a highly experienced and tenacious Manager to join Barnsley's BSAFE contextual safeguarding team as an operational manager with strategic influence of contextual safeguarding and exploitation practice.



Do you have a passion for leading and driving practice within services, working with the most complex children-and a resilience to support our practitioners to overcome rejection and pushback, by continuing to 'be there' for them?



Do you have an ambition to drive delivery within a multi-agency response to Contextual risk; working alongside Police, social care, youth justice and specialist family practitioners?



Are you a highly tenacious leader with significant practice experience of managing teams who support vulnerable adolescents and their families or care givers to reduce risks and support sustainable safe lives?



Can you use your experience and acquired skill to lead and inspire other workers from across the partnership, delivering coaching, training and supervision where required?



Do you seek practice innovation; the opportunity to drive change and to work in an environment that seeks creativity and practice excellence, celebrates endeavour, and sees success through the lens of changes made by service users?

If you see yourself, then we really want to hear from you!

In BSAFE, we work directly with children, their families and the networks supporting them, providing specialist intervention, advocacy and consultation through a 'co-allocation' model.


A successful manager, will have the determination to further develop innovative, specialist responses to risk for adolescents, practicing within a 'co-allocated' model that ensures intensity, creativity and evidence-based responses, directly with young people, pursuing perpetrators of harm and working across places and spaces our children occupy.

You will be leading and driving the work with children and their families where the following harm types have impacted their lives, including contexts where the child is also risk to others:


Child criminal exploitation Child sexual exploitation Harmful sexual behaviour Serious Youth Violence Youth Justice and crimes linked to exploitation

You will be relentless in striving and developing 'good' and 'outstanding' services to children and their families, supporting practitioners to advocate for our children as victims and working alongside our co-located police and YJS partners to respond to those who pose a risk to our children, creating safer communities for our children to grow up in.

More about the role:

You will be operational lead for a small team, you will have responsibility for ensuring the effective planning and oversight of children subject to a variety of plans, supporting your team to work innovatively individually and with partners.



Supporting a team who are working with a reduced caseload of young people, enabling intensive and highly flexible practice to support the needs of the children and their families. You will advocate the ethos of the work we do, occupying multi-agency spaces and ensuring children are recognised as victims, advocated for and that plans around them include responding to risks in and outside of their homes.


You will provide supervisory support and oversight of other staff, giving you much needed experience should you seek longer-term aspirations to move into leadership positions.



This is a full-time role, that will require flexible working patterns, potentially including outside of core hours and will demand you to be willing to adapt your approach to the needs of children and families.


You will Lead the team with confidence and act as deputy for the Strategy and Service manager across Youth Justice and Vulnerable Adolescent (BSAFE) Services, driving the development and delivery of services and strategies which safeguard children, young people and families, protect the public and promote confidence in the Criminal Justice and Contextual safeguarding responses.



Collaboration is at the heart of our culture, underpinned by the shared desire to do what it takes to make our children and victims safe. The work is challenging and rewarding in equal measure. We will support you to privilege building relationships with some of our most vulnerable young people, working alongside them and their networks to drive effective planning and risk management.


In Barnsley, we have a determination to be innovative and further enhance the offer and response for our children through a Child First practice system, that changes lives, and elevates children to seek and achieve their full potential.



In addition, you play a vital role in the wider partnership work taking place to further develop the multi-agency response to exploitation and complex risk at both a strategic and operational level, continuing to nurture relationships with our partners to achieve our shared goal of reducing our children's experiences of exploitation and making our communities safer.

What we will need from you:

To work with the leadership team to develop and drive continuous professional development across the team and within wider children's services being supported and supportive to the networks around children. Take a lead in the operational oversight and delivery of key processes to manage this cohort, including delivery of case consultation; training and skills development for the partnership; group case supervision and quality assurance; co-ordinating mapping and sharing intelligence with police partners. Play a key role in workforce development and development of the BSAFE offer, ensuring, under your leadership that staff are supported and encouraged to offer good and outstanding services, that meet children in their contexts and proactively safeguards and supports them.

Required for the role:

A highly dynamic approach and the ability to thrive when working in a challenging and unpredictable environment Strong management experience with a defined track record of developing and delivering robust management oversight to teams, who support children and families impacted by risk outside of the home. A proven track record of delivering quality services that enable better outcomes for children and their families and safeguards them from harm with experience of through effective leadership of staff and analytical management of data and performance, to safeguard and promote the welfare of children involved with the service, including those with a need for protection and ensure that all aspects of the service are responsive to the needs of victims in particular and the public in general, including the need for protection. A recognised social work qualification and registration with SWE Experience of working in or alongside multi-agency partners and the Youth Justice service is preferred but not essential. Significant post qualification experience, within frontline social work settings, that enables you to offer coherent input into management decisions Experience of supporting and providing supervisory oversight to staff A commitment to supporting the learning and development of others Knowledge and understanding of key legislation, policy and best practice in working with vulnerable adolescent children with experience and significant knowledge of 'what works' in relation to single agency and partnership interventions and activity to reduce contextual safeguarding risks

How we will support you:

You will receive regular supervision, appraisal, training and development opportunities, all aimed at promoting positive outcomes for children and supporting your career development and progression, being part of shaping the future of the service and continuing to ensure we work as dynamically and creatively as needed, with this cohort of children, elevating us as a beacon of excellence in contextual safeguarding practices.


We are making long-term investment in our staff to be the future of our service, so we are seeking aspiring leaders and managers who will be a key part of our journey moving forward. If this is you, we will ensure you receive opportunity for ongoing career development in recognition of the value you add to the service in this highly demanding role!





Here at Barnsley, we live and work by four important values: honesty, teamwork, excellent service, and taking pride in what we do.


As part of our team, you can be assured we will support you in striving for excellence in your work. We prioritise learning and enabling you to achieve your potential so you will have opportunities to increase your expertise and further develop your management and leadership skills.



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For further information, please contact Phil Drabble, Youth Justice Strategy Service Manager via the following email address: youthjusticegovernance@barnsley.gov.uk






Barnsley is the place of possibilities: We are one service with one goal, working together to build a brighter Barnsley for every child



v Putting Children and Families First



v Working together in partnership to deliver joined up care



v Delivered by a strong and valued workforce

Please use the documents below to help support you with your application form.

Job Profile:

Lead Operational Manager Vulnerable Adolescent Service Job Profile.pdf

Vacancy Exposure Profile:

Exposure Profile.pdf

Help with your application form

Why work for us?

Please ensure you view the job profile for this role, as you will need to demonstrate in your

application form how you meet the required criteria.




We welcome the opportunity to have a chat about the role and are happy to address any questions you may have about flexible working arrangements, including as a result of caring responsibilities.




We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued and everyone truly feels able to be themselves. If you have any support needs during the recruitment process, please let us know.





CV's are not accepted for this role.





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