Head of Youth Justice and Communities

This is a permanent role that will report directly to the Assistant Director for East Gloucestershire. The successful candidate will play a key part in children's services leadership to provide oversight of the following:

• leading and embedding systemic practice with the youth justice service
• enabling children to remain with birth families wherever possible
• protecting children who experience or are on the cusp of offending and the criminal justice system
• acting as corporate parent to children unable to remain within birth families
• promote the "child first" approach
• providing system leadership as a statutory safeguarding partner
Head of Service role summary Leading your teams in delivering a culture of high-quality practice that achieves good outcomes for vulnerable children and young people, you will establish clear goals and expectations in line with GCC priorities, provide challenging and supportive line management to ensure these are met, and hold their direct reports to account. You will:
• line manage several managers/service leads with responsibilities for delivering the youth justice agenda in line with the Youth Justice Board.
• be accountable for the rigorous implementation of a quality assurance framework to monitor and review performance (both compliance and quality), take action to build on strengths and respond to areas for improvement to support and liaise with the area manager to feed into their high-level service delivery planning.
  
  We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire's diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English. Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.