Team Manager (Education, Employment and Training)
Gloucester
This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
- Job Title: Team Manager (Education, Employment and Training)
- Job Location: Gloucester
- Salary: £46,731 - £49,764 per annum (pro rata)
- Hours per Week: 37
- Duration: 6 month FTC
- Closing Date: 15/12/2024
- Job Requisition Number: 10437
Team Manager – Education, Training and Employment
We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our Youth Support Team as a Team Manager on a 6-month FTC.
About Us
For all your hard work. You will receive the following;
- between £46,731 - £49,764 per annum subject to experience (pro rata)
- flexible and agile working opportunities
- 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service (pro rata)
- an option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
- family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
- supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
- Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
- an in-house Occupational Health service
- employee discount scheme
- links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
- career development
About our teams
Gloucestershire Youth Support Service believes that every child deserves the best possible service so that they can achieve their potential and enjoy a life in which they are healthy, resilient, successful, and connected within communities and environments that support and nurture.
Education, Training and Employment is a challenging landscape, and we are ambitious about better outcomes for our children and young people. Driving forward the Raising Participation agenda and leading on the National Score Card performance you will have a pivotal role in shaping the work with our children and young people managing our NEET Teams and working closely with our colleagues across Children’s Services and wider stakeholders and partners including schools, colleges, local enterprise partnership, training providers, employment and skills hub and voluntary organisations..
As a multi-disciplinary service, within the county’s youth support offer, we deliver high-quality support to children and young people through 1:1, group work, functional skills and our central Opportunities team.
About you
Working within a challenging Post 16 landscape, we need highly skilled, resilient, driven individuals who will play their part in making our vision a success. You will be joining an authority with a strong set of values that underpin the work we do Accountability, Empowerment, Excellence, Integrity and Respect. We are looking for someone that has knowledge and experience within education, training and employment or careers guidance settings and want to be part of driving forward this agenda to ensure children and young people have better outcomes and fulfil their potential.
Next steps
If you would like to discuss the role further then please get in touch with Lynne Speak (Head of Service Youth Support Team) lynne.speak@gloucestershire.gov.uk or email the childrens recruitment team on CSWrecruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Additional Information
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This position is subject to a DBS check.
Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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.