Redthread Team Leader- King's College Hospital

The Team Leader role has responsibility for the operational oversight of Redthreads delivery within Kings College Hospital and any community work undertaken in the surrounding area.  The role is part of the wider youth work team within Redthread with a primary focus on youth violence and mental health interventions in a health care setting. The role leads the hospitals Youth Violence Intervention Programme supporting young people aged 1125 who attend following violence or where there are concerns about exploitation or extra-familial harm. The Team Leader also oversees the Young Womens Service which provides longer-term support to young women affected by community violence and the Mental Health Youth Work Pilot for 1118-year-olds admitted following deliberate self-harm. The role includes line management of the teams Youth Workers ensuring the service operates effectively and supporting young people both in hospital and after discharge to access the help they need and want.

Main duties include:

• To recruit manage motivate coach and develop a staff team including carrying out annual appraisals and regular supervision meetings.  To manage their health safety and wellbeing.
• To promote and embed Catch22s vision and values in local service delivery
• To ensure all service user information interventions and other data as required by the contract are recorded on the relevant data management system in line with Catch22s policy. 
• To manage operational risk health and safety governance and safeguarding issues in line with Catch22 Catch22 and Commissioner policies.
• Carry out regular case file audits as per the Audit Policy and Procedure
• Be responsible for the allocation of referrals and ensure caseload management structures are in place
• Adhere to reporting requirements deadlines and requests ensuring all required information is recorded accurately as instructed.
• Hold a small caseload of young people and support them in the hospital and post discharge

Qualifications :

Essential

• Relevant level 3 or 4 qualification in health & wellbeing youth provision or similar or demonstrable equivalent experience

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience of working with young people with challenging needs.
• Experience of Inter-agency working. Work within/ in partnership with Childrens and Family Services/ Youth Justice Services/ Youth services.
• Experience of delivering training to young people/professionals
• Working with young people in group and one-to-one settings.
• Knowledge of issues around risk and vulnerability amongst young people.
• An awareness of the current issues relating to at risk and vulnerable young people.
• Knowledge of engagement and intervention strategies.
• Knowledge of Children Act/LSCB Procedures and other appropriate youth policies.
• Understanding and experience of Performance Management with regard to practice and target achievement.
• Experience of using recording and data collation systems
• Experience of line management and management of a team 

Skills & Ability

Essential

• Clear risk assessment skills particularly when working with young people with complex needs.
• Ability to work creatively within agreed management arrangements and to maintain positive relationships with key partner agencies.
• Ability to manage conflict & negotiation skills.
• Experience and skills to lead a team setting objectives and priorities monitoring performance against agreed targets. 
• Reviewing skills in enabling staff to reach full potential and achieve targets through individual supervision annual appraisal and learning development programmes.
• The ability to contribute to ongoing service evaluation and review
• Communicate well in a range of settings with different people.
• Good organisational skills (for self and others).
• To be able to use a range of leadership styles as appropriate.
• Work effectively in a team.
• Manage conflicting demands.
• To be able to adopt a flexible approach to all aspects of work.
• Problem solving and a can do attitude.
• Basic ICT skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Understanding of spreadsheets importance of monitoring and general knowledge of finance

Additional Information :

Those interested in applying for this opportunity should review the Job Description & Person Specification to find out more.

When applying please be cautious over the answers you provide. If you select NO to the screening question regarding Right to Work in the UK your application will automatically be closed. 

Contract: Permanent

Hours & work pattern: Full time 37 hours per week including regular weekend and evening working and shift patterns scheduled across the team covering the hours of 9am - 9pm. 

Salary: 38424

Location: Kings College Hospital London with daily presence on site required

Screening: Successful admission to post subject to enhanced DBS check and employer Right To Work in the UK check. The post-holder must have right to work in the UK. Catch22 does not currently provide a licence to sponsor visas but please see this register to see those that do.

To Apply: Please provide your CV and cover letter along with the completion of the screening questions to express your interest in this opportunity. Please note in the interest of safer recruitment and ensuring that applicants are a right fit for the role submitted applications must contain a CV satisfactory responses to the screening questions and information detailing interest in the role to be considered for this position.

Closing date: 10am on Friday 30th October 2026

Please note Catch22 reserves the right to close the opportunity before the advertised closing date without reason. Catch22 reserves the right to close the advert early if we receive a high number of applications. As such we encourage interested applicants to submit applications at their earliest convenience. 

Interviews: First round interviews will be held week beginning 9th November 2026

AI generated applications are not acceptable and could lead to a disqualification of your current and future applications across Catch22 order to ensure that applications are fair genuine and representative of the candidate applying our teams may use a number of tools to identify occurrences where candidates have not given an honest response during the application process. 

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time