Operational Manager (Super Youth Hub)

Hackney Education provides a range of services to support the education of children, young people, and adults in our inner London borough. Hackney is one of the UK’s highest performing local authorities, serving one of London’s best places to live and work. Within our diverse borough we serve a wide range of children and young people. We have a particular focus on supporting less advantaged families: Hackney figures in the 10% most deprived boroughs in England on a number of measures.

Hackney Education’s key priority is to improve the life chances of every child, young person and learner: making Hackney the most forward-looking education system in the UK, where schools, settings and partners provide an exciting environment which ensures inclusion and success for everyone. We see our borough as being one of the best places in the country for young people to grow, learn, develop and achieve –and one of the best places for colleagues to work and thrive in our education system.

Job title Operational Manager (Super Youth Hub)

Salary PO6, £55,158.00 to £56,151.00

Terms and Conditions Full time, Fixed term/Secondment (2 years)

• Are you a driven professional with experience in project or operational management, ready to make a meaningful impact on the health and wellbeing of young people in City and Hackney?
• Do you possess a strong commitment to innovation and want to contribute to an exciting fixed-term pilot focused on transforming health and wellbeing services for young people?
• Are you adept at working collaboratively across agencies and system-wide to engage young people and communities from diverse backgrounds?
• Do you bring strong partnership working and engagement skills, along with existing knowledge and experience of working with Children and Families?
• Are you passionate about fostering positive mental health outcomes for young people and ready to play a vital role in empowering them with more autonomy over their support needs?
• Can you effectively balance operational management with strategic leadership to create positive outcomes for young people in City and Hackney?
• Are you prepared to champion new ways of working that promote anti-racist, systemic, and trauma-informed approaches?

This is an exciting opportunity to play an integral role in a new pilot piece of work that aims to

provide young people with more autonomy over their support needs and improve their access to the full scope of health and wellbeing services, ensuring that they can get the right support, at the right time, with the right person, in the right place.

The postholder will support the strategic vision and direction to a borough wide response to reducing health inequalities and improving the health and lives of young people, through learning about improving and embedding support at an early stage.

This work is being developed through the CAMHS Alliance. The role will sit within Hackney Education but work across the system, working with Public Health, Young Hackney, VCSOs, Mental Health Services, Primary Care, Early Help teams as well as children and young people.

The job holder will work within the CAMHS Alliance PMO, as part of the ‘Super Youth Hub’ Operational Management team. The post holder will have the following aims:

1. Drive the success of the Super Youth Hub project by achieving goals related to empowerment, accessibility, and ensuring the right support for young people in City and Hackney.
2. Oversee operational management, including coordinating teams, implementing efficient systems, and being accountable for project performance and financial management.
3. Provide strategic leadership by coordinating with health and wellbeing support providers, ensuring the inclusion of children and young people's voices, and establishing effective relationships and partnerships.
4. Promote governance and quality improvement, focusing on service-user and staff safety, supporting clinical outcome measures, and facilitating continuous quality improvement.
5. Manage teams and staff effectively, including line management, supporting professional development, and delivering a robust induction and training program for Peer Ambassadors.
6. Ensure financial and resource management compliance, including undertaking annual financial plans, monitoring budgets, and procuring income. Additionally, manage data, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting, providing timely and accurate performance information.

The funding for this post is fixed term and has come from Northeast London ICB Outcomes Funding for System Transformation.

If you have any questions about the role, please contact Sophie McElroy (Sophie.Mcelroy@hackney.gov.uk).

Interested?

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Closing date 22:59, Sunday, 24^th March 2024

Hackney Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment. As this role involves regulated activity, the successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check and additional pre-employment checks in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

We are also working towards our vision, which is to be a place for everyone; where residents and staff can be proud; a place that celebrates diversity and where everyone can feel valued, included and involved. In order to achieve this, we look for people who are: Proud; Ambitious; Pioneering; Open; Proactive; Inclusive.

Hackney Council works to eradicate discrimination on the basis of race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, age and marital status. We also recognise that people can be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will also work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class. We also welcome those interested in flexible working. We particularly welcome applications from disabled people and people from a black and global majority background as these groups are currently under represented in our workforce.