The role
About Southwark:
Southwark is a large, ambitious and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude and enviable reputation. As a Council, we are successful, passionate and forward-thinking. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promise which ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do. If you want to make a difference at a local level, apply to Southwark Council today.
The Role:
This is an exciting opportunity to lead the development of an innovative approach to early help and preventative intervention for adolescents and their families. We are recruiting to a new Pilot Adolescent Sure Start Service to embed our embed our Keeping Families Strong approach through the development of a community based Early Help offer, aimed at ensuring increasingly effective and joined up services deliver improved outcomes for adolescents.
You will be a key part of the successful delivery of operational change in the way early help is delivered for adolescents by developing and coordinating an enhanced locality based and virtual offer for adolescents, ensuring services are accessible and driven by ongoing understanding of local need and the development of community capacity. The post holder will lead on development of an holistic embedded community offer for vulnerable adolescents and the development of locality integrated leadership for early help services.
About You:
You will be an experienced multi-agency early help professional, with extensive knowledge and experience of working with vulnerable adolescents and inner city communities from deprived backgrounds. You will be a creative thinker with a successful background in developing new approaches to promoting and delivering access to support for hard to reach communities and those from diverse backgrounds, as well as a strong partnership leader with proven ability to bring partners on board to develop and deliver shared aims.
Benefits and more information:
In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Additional details
This post is being offered as a fixed term contract for 24 months.
Please note a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at enhanced level is required.
Recruitment timetable
Closing Date: 13/03/2023 at 23:59
Interview Date: 21/03/2023
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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