Practice Development Lead (Youth Justice Service and Targeted Youth Support)

This is an exciting time to join Tower Hamlets Council. A key priority within the Tower Hamlets Council Strategic Plan 2022-2026 is to transform and improve youth services for young people in the borough. We are ambitious about ensuring that all young people have access to a diverse range of youth work opportunities and support through the delivery of a high-quality youth service, this includes:

Universal ‘safe spaces’ in every single ward throughout the borough where young people can stay safe, participate in positive activities and educational opportunities as well as access additional support from youth workers. This will be an increase from five commissioned universal services to at least one in every ward therefore providing accessible 'safe spaces’ for all young people.
Targeted whole family support for vulnerable young people and their families.
Integrated detached youth work team providing a preventative and responsive approach to harm outside the home.
Commissioning of specialist youth provision for specific groups of young people.

We are committed to providing comprehensive and impactful support services to young people. Our Youth Justice and Targeted Youth Support Services are dedicated to transforming and improving the lives of young people by offering tailored interventions, support programs, and guidance. Empowering young people to make positive changes, reduce reoffending, and foster positive development.

The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Practice Development Lead to directly support the way services are delivered via our Targeted Youth Support and Youth Justice Services.

The role will be based in the Supporting Families Learning Academy with the key focus to develop, implement and embed a new quality assurance framework that recognises and enables continuous improvement of excellent youth practice and to support the continued improvement within our Youth Justice and Targeted Youth Support Services.

In this dynamic role the Practice Development Lead will work closely with Heads of Service, Group Managers and others to:

Contribute to the Young Tower Hamlets Strategy outlining the quality assurance approach and outcomes and how achieve high-quality practice standards.
Develop and implement a new child centred quality assurance framework and related activities to ensure the quality of youth work delivery is consistently good across all deliverables as well as driving excellence.
Develop and implement comprehensive case audit tools informed by the Youth Justice Board, National Youth Agency and the Supporting Families Learning Academy as well as developing toolkits for youth practitioners to use as part of their day-to-day practice.
Review pathways and processes to ensure there is alignment to provide consistency in youth practice.
Development of policies, guidance and procedures and ensure they are translated and embedded into practice.
To deliver training and development to the workforce to ensure that the new ways of working are firmly embedded into day-to-day practice.

If you require more information on the role, please contact Sam.nair@towerhamlets.gov.uk

Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.

Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class. We are a Disability Confident Employer, which means applicants who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the post are guaranteed an interview. Care experience has also been adopted by the Council as an additional protected characteristic.

We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.