Target Youth Team Manager

Job description

Contract terms

Starting salary: PO6  (£56,0058 – £59,298)
Work location:  Rising Green, Bruce Grove , Outreach and Satellite Venues
Hours per week: 36 per week
Contract type: Permanent  
Closing date: Sunday, 18th October 2026 at 23:59
Expected interview date: W/c 2nd November 2026

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Targeted Support Team Manager to lead and develop a dynamic team of youth practitioners delivering targeted intervention and outreach services for young people and their families. This is a key leadership role within Early Help and Prevention, focused on ensuring high-quality case management, safeguarding practice, and responsive support for young people facing complex challenges, including serious youth violence and exploitation. You will oversee service delivery, performance, budgets, quality assurance processes and staff development, while driving innovation and continuous improvement.

Working collaboratively across children’s services, education, health, police and community organisations, you will help shape preventative services that improve outcomes for young people. You will also identify funding opportunities, develop partnerships with businesses and voluntary sector organisations and support the commissioning of interventions that address emerging community needs

About the team

Our Early Help and Prevention service is committed to supporting children, young people, and families through a strengths-based approach that promotes resilience, inclusion and positive futures. The team works closely with Family Hubs, locality services, schools, health partners, community safety teams and voluntary sector organisations to deliver holistic support tailored to local needs.

As Team Manager, you will lead a dedicated group of practitioners who are passionate about making a difference in young people’s lives. Together, you will empower young people to have a voice in shaping services, create opportunities that support personal development and education and contribute to reducing risks associated with serious youth violence, exploitation and anti-social behaviour

About you

You will be an experienced manager with a strong understanding of contextual safeguarding, serious youth violence, early help services, community safety. You will bring substantial experience of managing projects, programmes, staff and complex case management systems, alongside a proven ability to work effectively with statutory, business and voluntary sector partners.

To be successful, you will demonstrate excellent communication, negotiation and relationship-building skills, combined with effective people management and coaching abilities. You will be highly organised, self-motivated and capable of managing multiple priorities while remaining calm under pressure. Educated to degree level (or able to demonstrate substantial relevant experience), you will be passionate about achieving positive outcomes for young people and supporting teams to deliver outstanding services. An Enhanced DBS check with Barred Lists will be required for this post.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.  

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk