Youth Violence Reduction Team Manager

Lead a specialist team reducing violent harm and supporting young people to find safer, positive paths forward.

As our Youth Violence Service Team Manager you'll lead a newly expanded team dedicated to tackling youth violence and exploitation. You'll guide and develop a group of skilled Youth Violence Advocates, helping them support young people at risk and their families through some of the most complex and critical situations they'll ever face.

As our Youth Violence Service Team Manager on 12 months fixed term contract, you'll lead a newly expanded team dedicated to tackling youth violence and exploitation. You'll guide and develop a group of skilled Youth Violence Advocates, helping them support young people at risk - and their families - through some of the most complex and critical situations they'll ever face.

Your leadership will shape a service that directly protects children and builds safer, stronger communities.

You'll be based in the Borough for 4 days a week, playing a key role in serving the local community. Whether you're working on the frontline or behind the scenes, you'll be part of a dedicated team making a real difference to residents' lives.

This is a vital leadership role at the heart of RBKC's approach to tackling youth violence. You'll manage a specialist team of four Youth Violence Advocates, overseeing casework, group work and project activity while embedding trauma-informed and systemic practice into everything you do.

Your day-to-day will include managing referrals, ensuring high-quality action planning and safeguarding, and maintaining rigorous risk assessment processes. Following serious incidents, you'll apply the Community Safety critical incident protocol and work with families and partners to reduce ongoing risk.

Collaboration will be central to your work - you'll build strong partnerships across statutory, voluntary and community sectors to ensure joined-up support for young people and their families. You'll represent the service at key multi-agency meetings such as the Youth Justice Service Risk of Harm Panel and Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA).

You'll also provide supervision, direction and professional development for your team - offering guidance, leading appraisals, and promoting a culture of reflection, resilience and care. Alongside this, you'll maintain open, transparent relationships with parents and carers, ensuring their voices are heard and reflected in plans.

You'll track and report performance to strategic boards such as the Safer Kensington and Chelsea Partnership, contribute to the service's growth, and step in to support frontline casework during busy or high-risk periods.

For further details, please review the Job Description and Person Specification

You’ll have advanced knowledge of policy, practice and legislation related to youth violence, exploitation, knife crime and modern slavery, alongside a strong understanding of trauma-informed and contextual safeguarding approaches.

You’ll bring proven experience in managing staff and services working with children and young people affected by trauma, demonstrating leadership that is both compassionate and pragmatic. You’ll understand how to support young people displaying complex behaviours and how to engage whole families in creating change.

Experience with risk assessment, lone working processes, and operational safety management is essential, as is your ability to build trusted relationships with a wide range of partners. You'll bring exceptional communication, problem-solving and organisational skills, with the confidence to make decisions under pressure and the empathy to support your team through challenging work.

At RBKC, we’re all in - investing in our people, our communities and our future.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape a new and growing team tackling one of the borough’s most urgent priorities: reducing violent harm and protecting vulnerable young people. You'll have the space to lead, innovate and influence real change in how we work with those at risk of or affected by exploitation.

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