NEET Team Manager Education Support

Interim NEET Team Manager

Job Ref: Gloucestershire 5262616

Pay Rate: £25.79 per hour PAYE

Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours

Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3-4 months

City: GLOUCESTER

Enhanced DBS disclosure required

In the challenging Post 16 landscape, a highly skilled, resilient, and driven individual is needed with knowledge and experience in education, training, employment, or careers guidance, to help drive forward initiatives aimed at ensuring children and young people achieve better outcomes and fulfill their potential.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Lead and manage the day-to-day operations of the teams, offering guidance, support, and personal development reviews, while ensuring performance management is aligned with high-quality service delivery, staff well-being, and optimal resource use.
2. Develop and implement a clear plan that aligns with the organization’s strategic objectives, local performance improvements, and learning from complaints and priorities, ensuring its successful execution.
3. Provide monthly supervision that encourages reflection, offers clear direction, and challenges the team to prevent delays and ensure timely progress in the child's journey.
4. Effectively manage the workflow within the NEET teams and worker caseloads to ensure children and young people's needs are met in a timely and appropriate manner.
5. Maintain management oversight on all cases, ensuring risks are well understood and decisions are consistently documented in the child's file.
6. Conduct quality assurance of the team’s work using methods such as case file audits, DIP sampling, observations, and reflective supervision, contributing to the ongoing development of the quality assurance framework.
7. Demonstrate strong decision-making and problem-solving skills to ensure effective risk management, planning, and achieving positive outcomes for children and their families.

Key Requirements:

1. Educated to degree level/recognised professional qualification relevant to the field of children and families.
2. Good knowledge and understanding of assessment, outcome focused planning, and evidence-informed interventions relating to children, young people, and their families.
3. Knowledge and understanding of key IAG agencies, partnerships, networks, and educational providers within the county.
4. Knowledge and understanding of statutory children in care and care leaving services within a careers and IAG context.
5. Extensive experience of working in areas associated with vulnerable children, young people, and their families.
6. Experience within an education, training, and employment or careers guidance setting.
7. Experience of providing high-quality case supervision to staff.
8. Proven experience of engaging partners and working with other professionals to secure successful outcomes for children, young people, and their families.
9. High level of skill and proficiency with case recording systems.
10. Ability to work within timescales, to organise own workload, and to manage time effectively with competing priorities and fluctuating workloads.