Head of Youth Justice & Contextual Safeguarding
| Posting date: | 10 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | £60,537.00 to £70,791.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £60537.00 - £70791.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 October 2025 |
| Location: | Huddersfield, HD1 2TG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | F0014-25-0002 |
Summary
These roles will be responsible for the delivery of an External/Customer/Front door service area(s) year-on-year. Manage a large single service area or a group of smaller, related services delivering quality, managing resourcing, and resolving complex operational issues. Develop medium term business plans and contribute to longer term planning to support the achievement of corporate policies/ objectives. Lead the delivery of a related group of services to deliver against objectives and ensure that agreed service outcomes are met. Deliver upon specific commercial objectives to demonstrate commercial growth and deliver service improvement to meet agreed outcomes, working with relevant internal/external agencies to identify opportunities to utilise resilience offers to pre-empt demand for high intensity services. Manage and prioritise allocated resources (people, financial etc) to demonstrate value for money and ensure services are delivered within agreed financial parameters. Contribute to the design and manage the implementation of specific customer experience improvement objectives to ensure that that service is anticipating, and meeting customer needs where appropriate. Act as a figurehead for relevant service areas and identify and manage stakeholder relationships (e.g., Senior Officers, Members, commissioning bodies and external agencies) in order to deliver effective collaborative working. Motivate, manage, and develop staff to support a culture of high-quality performance and continuous improvement to achieve excellent service outcomes that meet the needs of citizens within a fixed level of resources. Resolve performance issues to support a culture of performance and productivity. Advise stakeholders on regulations and standards and investigate any areas of concern, implementing policies to support the delivery of Council objectives and plans and that comply with all relevant legislation and statutory requirements. Identify and manage risks within service operations, taking responsibility for overseeing the control framework and ensuring appropriate mitigations are put in place to reduce the risk to within agreed tolerance levels. Be involved in collaboration across the council as well as the public sector and wider city region to design and deliver solutions that are focussed on delivering a system-wide impact for residents.