Prevention Work Manager - Oakfield Secondary (Internal applicants only) in Leicester

Description

PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester LE3 8RA (with travel across Oakfield school sites and home working)

Salary: £43,860 -£47,829 Per annum (pro rota for part time) (Pay Award Pending)

Working Hours: 37hrs term time

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 12th August 2026

Interview Date(s): 17th August 2026

At a Glance

• What you’ll do: Manage and coordinate a specialist prevention workforce, ensuring children and young people at risk of suspension, permanent exclusion or non-attendance receive the right support at the right time.

• Who you’ll work for: Leicestershire County Council – committed to inclusive education, early intervention and improving outcomes for children and young people.

• Why it matters: You’ll play a key role in shaping inclusive practice across Leicestershire, helping vulnerable pupils remain engaged in education and achieve positive futures.

About the Role

Are you passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people through early intervention and inclusive practice? Do you have the strategic skills to ensure the right support reaches the right children at the right time?

As Prevention Work Manager, you’ll be responsible for the strategic deployment and coordination of Oakfield’s prevention workforce, ensuring specialist resources are targeted effectively in response to need, risk and demand. Working closely with schools, families and partner agencies, you’ll ensure the delivery of high-quality SEMH and prevention support, helping to reduce suspensions, permanent exclusions and non-attendance across Leicestershire.

You’ll coordinate referral and triage processes, oversee case allocation and reintegration planning, use data and local intelligence to shape service delivery, and ensure interventions are timely, proportionate, and effective. Alongside this strategic oversight, you’ll provide management and professional support to SEMH Practitioners and Reintegration Mentors, whilst maintaining a small caseload to model best practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic deployment and coordination of prevention workers across Leicestershire based on risk, need and demand.

• Maintain oversight of casework for children and young people at risk of suspension, permanent exclusion, or non-attendance, ensuring timely and effective intervention.

• Lead reintegration planning and support schools in meeting statutory responsibilities relating to permanently excluded pupils.

• Monitor, track and oversee casework allocation across the team, maintaining clear oversight of criteria, thresholds, risk, and intervention pathways.

• Use data, performance information, and local intelligence to improve outcomes and inform service development.

• Work collaboratively with schools, families, and partner agencies to secure inclusive and sustainable educational outcomes.

• Promote effective multi-agency working, professional challenge and continuous improvement across prevention services.

An enhanced with barred list DBS check is required for this post.

For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.

About You

We’re looking for an experienced and collaborative manager who is passionate about inclusion and improving outcomes for children and young people.

To apply for this post, you must:

• Qualifications plus experience or experience without a qualification i.e. BTEC Higher or NVQ 4 (or equivalent)
• Experience of providing support, supervision and line management to a team.
• Experience of allocating work according to need, demand and priority to a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience of assessing needs and finding solutions to problems for vulnerable children.
• Well-developed knowledge of the types of services, initiatives or programmes which may be useful in delivering early help to children, young people and their families.
• Able to work alongside colleagues from different agencies and services using a focus of improving outcomes for children and to work through any differences or conflicts between individuals or agencies
• Ability to travel to multiple locations within Leicestershire and occasionally more distant locations.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and to delivering accessible and inclusive services which meet the needs of all of our residents. You will be asked to demonstrate your understanding of these commitments as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability. We are a Disability Confident Employer.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are open to discussions about flexible working, which may include part time working, job sharing, term-time working, flexible start and finish times, and hybrid working, depending on the requirements of the role and the service. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Andrea Davis Head of Secondary Outreach

Telephone: 07725 204 083

Email: Andrea.Davis@leics.gov.uk

How to Apply

At Leicestershire County Council we’re looking for top talent from all walks of life. Whoever you are, wherever you’re from, and whatever your background - we care about what you bring to our organisation, not just what’s on your CV. That’s why we’ve designed a recruitment process that’s fair, accessible, and focused on potential. And with benefits that support people at every age and stage of life, we make sure you can thrive - both personally and professionally.

If you share our passion to make a difference for the people of Leicestershire, we’d love to hear from you. Click the apply button to submit your application, ensuring that you upload a supporting statement that explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. Without this information, we won’t be able to assess your suitability for the role, and your application will be rejected. For tips on how to write your statement, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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