Young Persons Team Leader
| Posting date: | 05 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £35,098 to £37,038 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 July 2025 |
| Location: | Cheshire, North West England |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Via |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | JOB02014 |
Summary
Are you ready to lead a passionate team making a real difference in young people’s lives across Cheshire West and Chester?
The Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Young Peoples Team Leader within our Cheshire West and Chester Team., Part of a wider management team, you will be responsible for leading the team who work with young people, supporting staff and those who use our service.
Key duties required for the role include:
• excellent management and leadership skills.
• responsible for the line management of a Young People Practitioners.
• holding a small case load delivering high quality substance misuse interventions to young people across Cheshire West & Chester.
• deliver effective early intervention and prevention work.
• liaise and network with a wide range of professionals working with young people across Cheshire West & Chester maintaining effective partnerships and working agreements to improve the outcomes for young people.
• safeguard those that come in contact with our services including staff.
The Service
Via Cheshire West & Chester Young Persons Service is a vibrant substance misuse service, creative and passionate. Our teams work collaboratively to provide valuable support to young people within Cheshire West.
We are an outreach service working out in the community, with 1-2-1 key working sessions in schools, college’s and meet with young people children in centres/school etc.
Location
Cheshire West & Chester
The core hours of this role will be Monday - Friday 9am until 5pm (with flexibility available) and there may be some occasional out of hours work.
To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Via we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For an informal chat about the role please contact Gayleen Winn, Head of Young People’s Services via Gayleen.Winn@viaorg.uk or Jane Murphy, CQC Registered Service Manager via Jane.Murphy@viaorg.uk
The closing date for applications is Sunday 6 July at midnight.
You will need to be available for Interview week commencing 7 July.
All our applications are sifted by humans. Please send us applications that reflect your own knowledge, experience and values and not applications that have been generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
The Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Young Peoples Team Leader within our Cheshire West and Chester Team., Part of a wider management team, you will be responsible for leading the team who work with young people, supporting staff and those who use our service.
Key duties required for the role include:
• excellent management and leadership skills.
• responsible for the line management of a Young People Practitioners.
• holding a small case load delivering high quality substance misuse interventions to young people across Cheshire West & Chester.
• deliver effective early intervention and prevention work.
• liaise and network with a wide range of professionals working with young people across Cheshire West & Chester maintaining effective partnerships and working agreements to improve the outcomes for young people.
• safeguard those that come in contact with our services including staff.
The Service
Via Cheshire West & Chester Young Persons Service is a vibrant substance misuse service, creative and passionate. Our teams work collaboratively to provide valuable support to young people within Cheshire West.
We are an outreach service working out in the community, with 1-2-1 key working sessions in schools, college’s and meet with young people children in centres/school etc.
Location
Cheshire West & Chester
The core hours of this role will be Monday - Friday 9am until 5pm (with flexibility available) and there may be some occasional out of hours work.
To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Via we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For an informal chat about the role please contact Gayleen Winn, Head of Young People’s Services via Gayleen.Winn@viaorg.uk or Jane Murphy, CQC Registered Service Manager via Jane.Murphy@viaorg.uk
The closing date for applications is Sunday 6 July at midnight.
You will need to be available for Interview week commencing 7 July.
All our applications are sifted by humans. Please send us applications that reflect your own knowledge, experience and values and not applications that have been generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
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