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Youth Justice Operational Manager

Job Description

🔹 Operational Manager – Youth Justice Service
📍 Location: Sefton
📅 Contract: Initial 6 months (with scope to extend)
💷 Pay Rate: £27.60 PAYE | £36.29 Umbrella/Ltd
🕒 Hours: Full-time
🗓 Application Deadline: Thursday, 3 July 2025

Are you a passionate and experienced leader in youth justice? Sefton’s Youth Justice Service is looking for a skilled and motivated Operational Manager to join their forward-thinking team and help drive improvement and high-quality outcomes for children and young people.

💼 The Role: As Operational Manager, you will play a key leadership role within the Youth Justice Service, working closely with the Service Manager and alongside a multi-agency partnership to ensure effective delivery of youth justice interventions.

You will:
  • Provide strategic oversight and operational leadership across youth justice practice.
  • Deliver robust case management supervision and quality assurance across the team.
  • Work in close collaboration with Children’s Social Care, education, police, health, and other key partners.
  • Support, mentor and manage staff to ensure high standards of delivery and compliance with national standards.
  • Contribute to the service’s strategic priorities, inspection readiness, and performance improvement.
✅ About You: We are seeking someone who is:
  • An experienced leader or manager within the youth justice, criminal justice or children’s services sector.
  • Professionally qualified in a relevant field such as social work, youth justice, probation, or youth work.
  • Either holds a leadership qualification or has demonstrable equivalent experience.
  • Knowledgeable about current youth justice policy, legislation, and best practice.
  • Confident in providing clear oversight, challenge and support to teams working with complex and vulnerable young people.
🌟 Why Join Sefton Youth Justice Service?
  • Be part of a dedicated, collaborative team making a real difference to children’s lives.
  • Lead work that supports prevention, diversion, and rehabilitation.
  • Enjoy a flexible and supportive working environment with scope to extend beyond the initial 6-month term.
📩 Apply Now If you are ambitious for children, committed to high standards, and have the vision and drive to support youth justice delivery in Sefton, we want to hear from you.
Contact Lewis Ashcroft at Service Care Solutions for more information or to apply:
📧 lewis.ashcroft@servicecare.org.uk
📞 01772 208 962