SHIFT Guide

Posting date:	28 April 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	Competitive
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	28 May 2025
Location:	Manchester, m2 5db
Company:	inploi
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	75698337

Summary

Working Hours: 35 Mon-Fri (flexible working)

Contract Type: Full-time Fixed Term (18 months)

Closing Date: 12 May 2025

This role is subject to -

• DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) clearance - this post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (amended in 2013). Appointable candidates will be required to apply for an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Information provided by you or the DBS will be dealt with in a confidential manner and in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice which can be viewed here. We have a policy on the Employment of Ex-Offenders and it is available upon request.
• Possess relevant qualification or equivalent relevant experience - DipSW, Degree in Social Work, Qualified Probation Officer PCEP (Professional Certificate in Effective Practice), NVQ Level 4 in Community Justice

Growing up is risky business. Current responses to children who are caught in, or at risk of, the destructive cycle of crime, often don’t give children and families the support they need to move to a place of safety and strength. This is especially true for children who are Black, Brown or Mixed Heritage. Manchester City Council, in partnership with SHiFT, is determined to change this, for the better.

SHIFT Manchester is looking for exceptional practitioners from all backgrounds – creative, tenacious and flexible changemakers – to work intensively alongside the most vulnerable children in the city to break destructive cycles of crime and influence system change. If this sounds like you, then we want to hear from you!

SHIFT Manchester is recruiting five Guides and a Practice Coordinator to form a high impact Practice that will work consistently, using the Breaking Cycles ingredients, with a small number of young people for around 18 months. Unconstrained by age, geographic or professional boundaries, Guides’ work starts with aspiration and belief in all young people, and they work alongside and across the statutory system, ensuring duplication is avoided and scarce resources are directed and purposeful. Guides are committed to dismantling the structural racism that is present both within and outside their own organisations.

SHIFT Guides are experienced practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds - experienced social workers, teachers, youth workers, youth offending practitioners or other professionals with strong leadership experience who want to invest in meaningful, skilled, and direct work with children. We are more interested in your values and experience than your qualifications, so if in doubt, please ask!

Challenging disproportionality is a key priority for SHiFT. In seeking to achieve this, we understand the value and importance of recruiting and retaining a workforce which represents the children we seek to support. We therefore actively encourage applications from under-represented groups.

SHIFT Guides will work within the framework of Manchester Youth Justice and have the support of both the Service and the wider Children’s Services, in addition to the national SHiFT team.

SHIFT Guide

SHIFT Guides work intensively with 5-6 children or young people who are, or are at risk of, repeatedly committing crimes, doing whatever it takes to break cycles of crime for good. They provide flexible expert support tailored to each child and family’s individual circumstance and lived experience. Guides are a consistent, high support and high challenge presence in children’s lives, working with them, their families and professional network to develop strengths and reduce risks and, through skilful influencing and advocacy, challenge narratives.

· Passion for breaking cycles of crime and working with children and families to achieve best possible outcomes

· Possess relevant qualification or equivalent relevant experience - DipSW, Degree in Social Work, Qualified Probation Officer PCEP (Professional Certificate in Effective Practice), NVQ Level 4 in Community Justice

· Consent to and apply for an enhanced disclosure

If you wish to discuss any of these vacancies, please contact Manchester’s Youth Justice Performance & QA Manager, Mark Brundrett on 07944150683

We’re the local government authority for Manchester, and have teams across the city helping to make this a great place to live for everyone. We’re proud to do local government differently, in a city with an international reputation for diversity, creativity, culture and passion.

When you join us, you’re joining a team of over 7,000 council staff helping to make our ambition for Manchester a reality. Whatever your role, you’ll be supporting our residents and communities to be the best they can be, and helping to build a Manchester that's fairer for everyone who lives, works, volunteers, studies or plays here.

To make our ambition a reality, every person we recruit needs to play their its part. It takes a certain type of behaviour, attitude and way of working to get Manchester where it wants to be. Our people and partners have agreed five ‘behaviours’ – the grounding for how we must work together and treat one another:

• We take time to listen and understand
• We work together and trust each other
• We show that we value our differences and treat each other fairly
• We ‘own it’ and we’re not afraid to try new things
• We’re proud and passionate about Manchester

A career with us means you can be yourself, thrive, and build the career your talent and ambition deserve.

Creating an inclusive team at Manchester City Council

At Manchester City Council, we strive to create a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. If you want to find out more about the role, our culture, flexible arrangements or any adjustments, please let us know by emailing jobs@manchester.gov.uk. If you are invited to interview we will ask you if you require any adjustments in order for you to best demonstrate your suitability for the role in the interview process.

If you would like to access the job details in another format, such as large print, audio or printed on a coloured paper, please email jobs@manchester.gov.uk or call 0161 227 3373.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

Accessibility

As a Disability Confident Employer, we provide support for employees with physical or mental-health conditions, a disability or neurodiversity. Our workplaces are accessible by design, and we make workplace adjustments including providing aids, adaptations and equipment. These, combined with our flexible working policies such as disability-related leave, enable our employees to perform their role, thrive and be their authentic selves in work.

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When you join us

We want everyone to be able to be themselves at work and give their best. If you need additional support to undertake the duties of the role, we’ll make every effort to source any necessary aids, adaptations or equipment. If, however, any task proves to be unachievable, we will look at redesigning parts of the role.

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