Senior Team Leader

As a Senior Team Leader, you will lead the youth professionals within one or more neighborhood teams in Maassluis, Vlaardingen, and Schiedam. The youth professionals work in neighborhood teams, at schools, or at GP practices, always in the heart of society. And they do not do this alone: they are part of a dedicated team of colleagues, including team leaders and behavioral scientists, whom they can rely on, brainstorm with, and learn from together. You will therefore play a key role in this.

What will you do?
You will lead the passionate youth professionals that Scala provides to the client MEVIS. Together with this client, you will shape the task of youth aid in the neighborhood, at school, and in practice. The substantive management is assigned to the client. You will work on tactical and operational issues and ensure optimal staffing within your teams. You will work on the quality of the teams, on pleasant cooperation with internal and external stakeholders, on craftsmanship, and on job satisfaction. In this phase of the organization, making progress in the area of quality and professionalism is important.

You know how to connect with youth professionals, the client, and direct colleagues. With your experience in leadership in a similar context, you can quickly find solutions and contribute to the development of the neighborhood teams alongside your fellow team leaders, HR, management, and the Learning House.

Why Scala?
At Scala Jeugdprofessionals, you work together with professionals who dedicate themselves every day to youth and families in the Maassluis, Vlaardingen, and Schiedam (MVS) region. From your leadership position, you will make an important contribution to this.

Scala is part of De Piergroep and works on behalf of MEVIS. We believe it is important that professionals continue to develop. That is why we have our own Learning House, where colleagues continuously learn from and with each other.

As a Senior Team Leader, you will enter a dynamic environment where no two days are the same. You will work together with youth professionals, team coaches, process managers, and various collaboration partners. Your organizational talent, thoroughness, and signaling role ensure that the team can function well.

Together, we ensure a solid foundation so that our professionals can do their work with attention and quality.

Your responsibilities include, among other things:

• Hierarchical leadership of the youth professionals within your own cluster;

• Conducting individual interviews with youth professionals;

• Consulting with stakeholders within the neighborhood teams, including the client;

• Developing a plan of approach for your neighborhood team(s) regarding quality and professionalism;

• Conducting job interviews, development interviews, and evaluations;

• Acting as a sparring partner for the client and management;

• Being responsible, together with HR, for inflow, throughput, and outflow within your scope;

• Steering on quantitative and qualitative capacity within the neighborhood team(s);

• Contributing to projects for the benefit of the assignment.

What do you bring?
You are someone who likes to provide structure, works thoroughly, and switches easily between different tasks. You find it rewarding to make a difference for others by ensuring that matters are well organized.

In addition, you bring:

• HBO+ working and thinking level, preferably in a care and/or welfare organization;

• Working independently and proactively, with a good sense of judgment to determine what you can do from your own role and where you need others;

• A number of years (3-5) of leadership experience in a context in which you deal with internal and external stakeholders and are integrally responsible;

• You are sensitive and able to work in an environment where you know how to bridge diverse interests and contradictions;

• You have a substantive vision on quality and professionalism;

• You are knowledgeable regarding organizational issues at an operational and tactical level;

• You are able to both set frameworks and maintain an eye for the supportive and professional aspects.  

• Good digital skills and experience with Microsoft Office and SharePoint;

• Good communication skills and a service-oriented attitude.