OUR COMMITMENT TO INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY

OY warmly welcomes applications from the global majority, trans and non-binary people and disabled people. Your potential to learn and grow in the role is important to us, so we want to hear from you even if your CV isn’t a 100% match with a job description.
We nurture our community, creating an open, inclusive and diverse organisation where all team members feel a sense of belonging.

SAFEGUARDING

· Understanding that safeguarding children, young people and adults is everyone’s business and accessing training and supervision appropriate to the role.
· To ensure concerns are responded to appropriately in line with the OY’s Safeguarding Adults Policy and the Child Protection Policy and interagency safeguarding procedures.
· To comply with recruitment and other checks as requested by the organisation including undertaking a DBS check.
This job description is subject to amendment following discussion with the post holder.

JOB PURPOSE

The young people’s supported accommodation (YPSA) Manager is responsible for ensuring that progression coaches provide an exceptional standard of coaching and youth work support to young people - within both their homes and community settings.
We have ambitious targets for young people’s outcomes and the YPSA Manager will be driven to make our vision of YPSA residents growing to see themselves, and be seen as, future change makers a reality.
Managing relationships expertly, with a wide range of stakeholders (in particular housing partner Response) the manager will seek out the best opportunities for young people and ensure they are taken up.
YPSA stakeholders include the Virtual School for Looked After Children, a range of charities and social enterprises, Oxford City Council’s education, employment and training (EET) specialist team, Oxfordshire’s child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) and Oxfordshire County Council.
The YPSA Manager works with the Head of Youth Services to ensure all progression coaches attend and implement learning from the wide range of training they receive. They will oversee inspirational activities promoting self-development and enabling young people to overcome the adversity they have experienced, and transform it into strengths and assets.
Oxfordshire Youth and Response have a bold new vision for this service: to provide aspirational coaching support alongside high quality temporary housing where young people feel safe, and are supported to develop healthy and positive bonds with their housemates.
The YPSA Manager will ensure all progression coaches receive high quality training enabling them to feel confident and motivated when working with young people and helping to improve their; emotional literacy skills, life skills, emotional regulation, physical wellbeing, financial empowerment, creativity and group skills.
Managers work closely with partners; Aspire, SOFEA and BYHP to ensure that positive activities and education, employment and training opportunities are integrated into every young person’s support plan. Building and maintaining excellent working relationships with the teams within these organisations is of paramount importance.
Youth work principles of reflective practice, active listening and co-design will drive your work ethic. The Oxfordshire Youth YPSA team takes a youth work approach. This means you will ensure:
1. listen to, and are led by, the needs, ambitions and assets of the young person
2. support young people as they acquire the skills needed to design their roadmap to personal growth
3. are reliable, consistent and aspirational role models who clearly define and adhere to professional boundaries.
All YPSA team members receive high quality training ensuring they are upskilled to take their part in building an excellent service. YPSA managers attend up-to-date training in emotional literacy, emotional regulation, physical wellbeing, financial empowerment, creativity and group skills.

BEING A ROLE MODEL

Set and demonstrate good standards of work practice, with particular emphasis on maintaining professional boundaries.