Young People’s Violence Advocacy Programme Manager

Reports toDirector of Services

Hours37.5 per week (a job-share will be considered)

Salary£37,000-£42,000 (plus £3,000 London Weighting)

LocationLondon office. (Flexible working will be considered)

TravelYou will be required to travel extensivelyaround the UK. Meetings will be held at the London and Bristol offices of CAADA

ContractFixed-term contract until 31 March 2015

Benefits A generous package including 25 days holiday a year, employee pension scheme with 4% employer contribution, childcare voucher scheme, cycle to work scheme

Direct ReportsFive Young People’s Regional Advisers

Main Purpose of the Role

To manage the development, delivery and sustainability of the national Young People’s Violence Advocacy Programme (YPVAP). To ensure that the Programme provides effective support to all young people at risk of serious harm from interpersonal violence, who are engaged with MARACs and Safeguarding Children services nationally. This is a unique position combining significant line management responsibilities with direct engagement at a strategic level with MARACs and Safeguarding Children services across England.

As a valued member of the CAADA team you will ensure that the Young People’s Violence Advocacy Programme helps us to meet our strategic goal of reaching 15,000 young victims and making at least 60% of them safer. Thus contributing to CAADA’s goal of halving the number of high risk victims of domestic abuse, and halving the amount of time it takes for victims to get effective help.

You will be a member of CAADA’s Operational Management Team which has responsibility for developing and managing CAADA’s policy position, communications messages, research projects and service delivery. The Operational Management Team is also has collective and individual responsibility for the well-being of CAADA’s staff.

Key relationships

Partnership – the host organisations for the Young People’s Violence Advocates, CAADA service development and delivery partners

Stakeholder – MARAC Governance and Operational groups, MARAC Practitioners, Children’s Social Care Management and Practitioners, Youth Offending Services, LSCBs and other accountable bodies, relevant local services and the Department for Education

Internal – Wider YPVAP team (data, admin, training and communications), and other CAADA teams

Position context

The aim of the Young People’s Violence Advocacy Programme is to support local MARACs and Children’s Social Care to achieve good outcomes for young victims experiencing serious interpersonal violence. The programme will deliver this through embedding an effective, integrated and consistent response to young people across the country.

The Programme will provide training for local practitioners to respond expertly to teenage domestic abuse, including sexual exploitation and gang involvement, cyber stalking and HBV/forced marriage. The postholder will manage five CAADA Young People’s Regional Advisers. These Advisers willassist local practitioners who might welcome support to work with their local MARAC and Safeguarding Children service. The goal is to embed an integrated young people’s local care pathway in each local authority area. The support offered to local areas includes tailored advice and assistance, innovative practice, practice materials, local and national networking, workshops and conferences and a national Helpdesk for commissioners and practitioners.

At a strategic level the Young People’s Violence Advocacy Programme support includes data collection through each Young People’s Violence Advocate and MARAC, and analysis of the data to provide client profile, case management and outcomes information. This will form part of the national Young People’s Dataset.

Finally, the Programme strives to promote greater recognition of the severity of the abuse young people experience and the multiple risk factors they face. This Programme will address this through creating a step change in the welfare of vulnerable young people.

Responsibilities

Programmeimplementation

1.To lead the successful implementation of the Young People’s Violence Advocacy Programme

2.To ensure the full compliance with the Department for Education Grant Agreement, managing all aspects of the deliverables, including implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and taking timely action if performance is not on target

3.To manage the annual and longer term budgets for the Young People’s Violence Advocacy Programme, and to be responsible for ensuring actual income and expenditure is in line with this

4.To report on all aspects of the Young People’s Violence Advocacy Programme, in writing and in presentations (formally and informally), in accordance with the Department for Education Grant Agreement, to promote the Programme and in line withCAADA’s internal reporting processes

5.To write the annual Young People’s Violence Advocacy Programme Operating Plan, including developing the longer term strategy for the Programme

People Management: internal -

6.To manage the Young People’s Violence Advocacy Programmestaff and their internal and external relationships to achieve effective implementation of the Young People’s Violence Advocacy Programme

7.To provide line-management, one-to-one supervision and professional development support for the five Young People’s Regional Advisers (or more depending on job-share arrangements)

8.To support the Young People’s Violence Advocacy Programmeteam wherever they are located within CAADA to be a motivated and successful team

9.To build effective links with the CAADA staff closely supporting the Young People’s Violence Advocacy team including communications and data analysis

Relationship management: external -

10.To build and maintain positive partnership relationships with external stakeholders to improve the quality and impact of local and regionalYoung People’s Violence Advocacy activity in line with theYoung People’s Violence Advocacy Programme. These stakeholders include:

  • MARAC Chairs, Co-ordinators and Steering Groups
  • Children’s Social Care and Youth Offending services managers and practitioners
  • Other statutory and voluntary sector agencies;practitioners and service users
  • Monitoring bodies e.g. Local Safeguarding Children Boards, Health and Well-being Boards, Ofsted
  • The Department for Education

11.To provide the vision and act as an ambassador for CAADA and for the Young People’s Violence Advocacy Programme

Programme Development and Sustainability

12.To translate activity, evidence and outcomes from within the Young People’s Violence Advocacy Programme and related to it, into information that can be shared to improve practice and to influence policy for the statutory, not for profit sectors and the public audiences

13.To write and present or disseminate key documents/information to a range of audiences for the successful delivery of the Young People’s Violence Advocacy Programme(e.g. toolkits, guidance, best practice or research summary briefings to inform and support Young People’s Regional Adviser activity or to contribute to the Programme workshops and conferences, and the annual CAADA conference)

14.To identify opportunities and relationships and develop them or contribute to their development, with the clear focus of progressing CAADA’s work in terms of:

  • New or different service delivery models
  • Areas of research which could stimulate the collective effort to keep victims safe
  • Highlighting/disseminating existing or potential innovative practice
  • Fundraising for CAADA

15.To identify and develop a fee earning strategy for the Young People’s Violence Advocacy Programme with the aim of ensuring the long term success through achieving financial sustainability

CAADA

  1. To ensure all work is undertaken in accordance with CAADA’s policies and procedures
  2. To support the work of the CAADA in whatever way may be reasonably required and uphold the quality of the CAADA brand

Person Specification

Experience and skills: (essential skills are marked with an asterisk)

Specialism

  1. *Training in and experience of working with formal safeguarding children processes, with an understanding of how and why young people do or don’t receive a service
  2. *A good working knowledgeof MARAC processes, IDVAs and the domestic abuse sector
  3. *Experience of multi-agency/partnership working at both a strategic and operational level
  4. *A good understanding of policy as it relates to young people and interpersonal violence and abuse, MARACs, Child Safeguarding and Youth Offending
  5. An understanding of public protection arrangements, the provision of policing, health and social care

People management: internal -

  1. *Line management, with an element of supervision supporting staff whose work involves hearing/reading traumatic content
  2. Providing strategic direction and leadership - understanding and communicating the vision and ethoswhich drive an organisation or team’s internal and external activity
  3. *Skilful people management, support and development to build astaff team who are motivated and confidentto be able to deliver a project or programme. Experience of achieving this with a geographically dispersed team would be an advantage
  4. *Excellent communication skills

Relationship management:external -

  1. *Experience and good skills in developing senior stakeholder relationships, promoting partnership working, networking and facilitating the sharing of best practice
  2. *Good facilitation skills, ability to lead a discussion to develop creative solutions and constructive conclusions, which includes the ability to provide feedback and communicate potential ways forward in a way that provides positive motivation for the audience
  3. A personal presence to influence practice and policy (e.g. good written reports and presentation skills using data and expert information), and an ability to use a range of communication channels (e.g. face-to-face meetings, workshops and electronic/digital dissemination)

Programme implementation & reporting

  1. *Practical experience of:
  • Successful project planning, developmentand implementation, working with multiple projects simultaneously
  • Monitoring and evaluating performancein terms of the key operational deliverables and the key inputs that impact on them e.g. staff, processes, time pressure
  • Budget setting, management and monitoring
  1. *Sound IT skills (e.g. Word, Powerpoint & Excel), including use of technology for communication with a geographically dispersed team

Personal

  1. *Ability and willingness to work independently, travel as required, manage own time and prioritise effectively to lead and support the Young People’s Violence Advocacy Programme and work as part of a team with the Director of Services and the Operational Management Team (other CAADA heads/managers)
  2. *Ability to analyse challenges and develop creative solutions
  3. *Ability to work well and professionally under pressure
  4. *Commitment to:
  • Good recording and communicating of information
  • Effective teamworking
  • Evidence-based practice
  • Maintaining confidentiality
  • Continuous learning
  • Equality and diversity
  • Integrity
  • CAADA’s role in supporting those who work with high-risk victims to improve the response to domestic abuse
  • Change - to contribute effectively as CAADA seeks to respond to the needs of victims of abuse

Special conditions

  1. The successful applicant will undergo an enhanced criminal record check before employment starts

Note: Consideration will be given to applicants without previous experience of the non-essential skills where they can demonstrate an aptitude and willingness to acquire these.

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March 2013