Youth Participation Manager

2 weeks ago

Yate, United Kingdom South Gloucestershire Council Full time
How you'll make a difference

As Participation Manager, you will play a key role in the creation and implementation of participation strategies and activities across the council, ensuring children and young people’s voices are at the heart of children’s services.

The Participation Team organises and develops a range of children and young people participation groups. These groups ensure that their voices are heard and feedback is passed onto senior managers within the council to help inform our processes, procedures and strategies.

 

This is a limited term contract until Sept 2025


What you will be doing
  • You will be responsible for setting and leading a clear participation plan, identifying participation activities and setting appropriate milestones. Outcomes will be presented at forums with detailed data analysis.
  • You will advise Senior Officers to ensure the participation plan is embedded into children’s services being sure to balance the needs of each participation group.
  • You will be responsible for leading and motivating the Participation Team, providing advice and support to ensure we maintain a high service standard.
  • Acting as a main point of contact for internal teams, you will gain insight from young people to feedback to external organisations such as the NHS and Youth Services.

 


What we need from you
  • You must be educated to degree level or equivalent or have equivalent relevant experience.
  • We require you to have extensive knowledge and experience of working at a senior level within social care, housing, health services (or other relevant areas).
  • It is essential that you have experience managing and developing a team.

How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different  

   

  • We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work. 
  • What’s special here is the strength of the team ethos, the support and the training.  
  • We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety and welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. Ensuring all our staff are given right skills, knowledge and support to recognise and respond effectively to potential abuse or neglect.
  • As part of our benefits package you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts , including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities
  • We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.   

 

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here. 

 

  • We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of   
  • We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life   
  • We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.   

 

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.   

 

We’re making a difference, be part of it    

 

For further information, please refer to the job description attatched - Youth Participation Manager H4

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