Criminal Justice Team Leader

Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options. 

Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential. 

The Criminal Justice Team Leader for North Northamptonshire (covering Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough) is responsible for leading and coordinating the delivery of drug and alcohol interventions across all elements of the criminal justice pathway. This includes working closely with prisons, probation services, police, courts, and wider partner agencies to ensure individuals are engaged in treatment at the earliest opportunity and supported through to sustained recovery.

The role provides day-to-day leadership to frontline staff, ensuring safe, consistent and high-quality practice, with a strong focus on risk management, safeguarding and reducing reoffending. The postholder will oversee complex and high-risk cases, support effective transitions between custody and community services, and ensure continuity of care across pathways.

A key part of the role is building and maintaining strong multi-agency relationships, representing the service in partnership forums, and ensuring clear communication and shared responsibility for outcomes. The role requires a visible leadership presence across all three localities, responding to local need, and embedding a strengths-based, trauma-informed approach in line with CGL values and the wider North Northamptonshire system.

Where: North Northamptonshire

Hours: Full Time, 37.5 per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Core competencies and expectations

• Provide clear and consistent leadership across multiple sites, supporting, supervising and developing staff while promoting accountability, reflective practice and team cohesion
• Use strong criminal justice knowledge to build positive relationships with probation, courts, police and prisons, representing the service confidently in multi‑agency and partnership settings.
• Maintain oversight of complex and high‑risk cases, ensuring robust risk assessment, safety planning and confident, timely decision‑making.
• Manage caseloads, workflow and staff capacity to support strong engagement, retention and completion outcomes, ensuring timely access to treatment and continuity of care.
• Oversee end‑to‑end criminal justice pathways, supporting effective transitions from custody to community and working closely with prescribing, outreach and recovery teams.
• Uphold high standards of quality, governance and compliance, including accurate recording, data quality, policy adherence and continuous improvement.
  
• Communicate clearly and constructively with staff, partners and service users, building trust, offering support and challenging appropriately where needed.
  
• Respond positively to changing service demands, balancing priorities across locations with a proactive, solution‑focused approach.
  
• Demonstrate a non‑judgemental, trauma‑informed, strengths‑based approach that promotes inclusion, respect and recovery‑focused outcomes.

If you're ready to make a positive impact and help individuals navigate the criminal justice system toward's a brighter future, we encourage you to apply. Join us in creating lasting change and empowering lives.

What We Offer:

• 25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays. Additionally, you'll receive one extra day of annual leave for each year of service during your first five years, therefore you will enjoy 30 days of leave after five years with us.
• Paid ‘Wellness’ hour weekly.
• 'Wellness' hub and Employee Assist Programme.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• Varied benefits incl. shopping, cinema, and holiday discounts.
• Supportive team, training, career progression opportunities.
• Competitive rates of pay, free eye tests, product discounts.
• Refer a friend scheme with generous vouchers if successful.

Please ensure that when completing your application form and supporting statement, you reflect on the details outlined in the job description. This will help us understand how your skills and experiences align with the requirements of the role.

The successful candidate will need to complete an enhanced DBS check and obtain MOJ vetting.

If you require sponsorship, please note that this role is not eligible for a Health and Care Worker visa. You may be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route but must meet the minimum salary requirements for the role. You can find out more here Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.

Direct applications only — we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy.

Please note: This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. For applicants with time-limited visas, unfortunately, we are unable to support new visa applications or extensions. More information about eligible roles and occupations can be found here: Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.