System Navigator (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 System Navigator (Super Youth Hub)

Salary PO3, £46053 to £48063

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

• Are you a dynamic professional with a proven track record in project management, eager to support with improving the health and wellbeing of young people in City and Hackney?
• Are you an excellent communicator, able to collaborate effectively across agencies and the broader system to engage young people and communities from diverse backgrounds?
• Do you bring robust partnership working and engagement skills, coupled with experience in working with Children and Families?
• Are you dedicated to promoting positive mental health outcomes for young people and ready to empower them with greater autonomy over their support needs?
• Are you prepared to champion innovative approaches, promoting anti-racist, systemic, and trauma-informed practices?

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. Ensure the inclusion of children and young people's voices and establish effective relationships and partnerships with professionals and community leaders in both statutory and voluntary sectors.
3. Build and maintain collaborative relationships with internal and external partners, community groups, leaders, and services, ensuring effective communication, coordination, and collaboration across the system.
4. Manage staff effectively, including line management, supporting professional development, and delivering a robust induction and training programme for young people involved in co production.
5. Work closely with communications teams and young people to strategically reach young people and their families with relevant and timely 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, 31^st 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 underrepresented in our workforce.