Programme Lead

Are you looking to make a positive impact on the lives of children and young people? Do you enjoy developing and delivering impactful interventions for children and young people? Are you an inspirational practitioner able to motivate children and young people and provide intensive and practical support? Then we have an opportunity for you!

Greenwich Children’s Services is an exciting place to work and we are ambitious for our children and families.  We put children, young people and families at the centre of everything we do and pride ourselves on delivering effective and values driven services, relentlessly focused on continuous improvement. 

As a member of our Virtual School and Inclusive Services, you will be responsible for delivering a bespoke innovation project for our children in care and our care leavers which will help them develop links to the local community, access personal and social development and inspirational coaching and mentoring support that will improve their wider outcomes.

We are recruiting to a number of posts for this project which are fixed term in the first instance until 31 March 2025:

Mentoring Programme Lead x 1 FTE (PO4)

Lead Mentor x 3 FTE (PO1)

Sitting within our Children’s Services Directorate, you will be part of a team responsible for ensuring children and young people in our care are provided with the necessary support to achieve positive outcomes and move successfully into adulthood.   Alongside the delivery of impactful mentoring and coaching, a key focus of these roles will be to deliver training and support to our wider workforce focused on evidence based practice and to support the embedding of direct work, practical support and engaging activities for children and young people within our Children’s Services Practice Framework.  

We are looking for individuals who have the ability to work with children and young people who may have multiple and complex needs, are able to engage and inspire children and young people and deliver training and support to the workforce with confidence to bring lasting positive change for children, young people and families and the way that we work.

Applicants are required to submit a full application addressing the individual Person Specification.  Please do not submit CVs.

If you are interested in finding out more, please contact:

Joe Norton-Jones, Assistant Head of Virtual School on 020 8921 5223

Eva Tabaton, Head of Virtual School and Inclusive Services on 020 8921 2810.

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Joe Norton-Jones;    joe.norton-jones@royalgreenwich.gov.uk     020 8921 5223   

JD

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