Charles Dickens Centre (On-Site)
Permanent, Part time
Band 10 - £41,510 - £45,718 p.a. (£24,906 - £27,430 pro rata)
22.2 hours per week
To be the lead officer within a locality and to directly line manage the site managers and buildings across a locality.
To provide specialist expertise in Play and Youth and to lead on this across the service.
Play – to lead on RoSPA inspections, play qualifications and to ensure a diverse programme of activities and opportunities for children, expanding on work to support families, sharing play specific knowledge across the service
Youth – to be responsible for provision of youth facilities and projects across the service, ensure a diverse programme of activities and opportunities for children, expanding on work to support families, sharing youth specific knowledge across the service
Skills:
You will be someone who:
1. Has experience managing staff and operations and are looking for a new challenge.
2. Has a passion for providing high quality services for children and young people.
3. Has a good understanding of safeguarding and how to embed safeguarding practice within a workforce.
4. Understands the importance of listening to the needs of children and young people, especially in play and youth services.
5. Is aware of the challenges faced by those who live within our communities and has the emotional resilience to be able to deal with the impact of being exposed to the difficult circumstances experienced by children young people and their families.
6. Is able to support a workforce that shares this emotional resilience.
7. Being able to remain professionally detached and focused even if the message you deliver involves saying no in difficult circumstances.
8. Has experience of using initiative and judgement to problem solve and make decisions in a structured and transparent way.
9. Can communicate clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing.
10. Works proactively and is able to remain motivated, working on your own initiative in coordinating multiple tasks.
11. Has experience working in partnership and building relationships with internal and external organisations
12. Is able to manipulate and analyse data to understand the performance of the system.
13. A relevant children's workforce qualification is preferred
To provide specialist expertise in Play and Youth and to lead on this across the service.
Play – to lead on RoSPA inspections, play qualifications and to ensure a diverse programme of activities and opportunities for children, expanding on work to support families, sharing play specific knowledge across the service
Youth – to be responsible for provision of youth facilities and projects across the service, ensure a diverse programme of activities and opportunities for children, expanding on work to support families, sharing youth specific knowledge across the service
Skills:
You will be someone who:
1. Has experience managing staff and operations and are looking for a new challenge.
2. Has a passion for providing high quality services for children and young people.
3. Has a good understanding of safeguarding and how to embed safeguarding practice within a workforce.
4. Understands the importance of listening to the needs of children and young people, especially in play and youth services.
5. Is aware of the challenges faced by those who live within our communities and has the emotional resilience to be able to deal with the impact of being exposed to the difficult circumstances experienced by children young people and their families.
6. Is able to support a workforce that shares this emotional resilience.
7. Being able to remain professionally detached and focused even if the message you deliver involves saying no in difficult circumstances.
8. Has experience of using initiative and judgement to problem solve and make decisions in a structured and transparent way.
9. Can communicate clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing.
10. Works proactively and is able to remain motivated, working on your own initiative in coordinating multiple tasks.
11. Has experience working in partnership and building relationships with internal and external organisations
12. Is able to manipulate and analyse data to understand the performance of the system.
13. A relevant children's workforce qualification is preferred
Closing date: Thu 22/05/2025 at 00:59
Job reference: pcc/TP/723/559