Youth Justice Officer

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Working within a multi-disciplinary team, to be responsible for all aspects of case management of youth justice cases, including dealing with non-compliance issues swiftly and effectively in compliance with local and national standards and inspection frameworks.
• To effectively engage with children & families from diverse backgrounds at all stages of case management including during assessment, review and delivery of interventions/programmes.
• To gather information, analyse and assess in order to manage risk, re-offending and safety/wellbeing accurately using appropriate screening and assessment tools; taking necessary measures to ensure welfare needs are dealt with effectively and public protection considerations are effectively managed.
• To act as lead professional for allocated cases and work collaboratively with partners using a family based approach to work towards increasing children and family resilience.  
• To adopt a restorative approach in engaging children and work together with colleagues to support opportunities to repair harm.
• To work collaboratively with partner agencies to maintain existing programmes and interventions and to develop new ones to meet the needs of the children and families within the local community.
• To comply with the Council’s Health and Safety Policy and associated safe working procedures and guidelines.
• To comply with the Council’s Comprehensive Equality Policy and to ensure that it is implemented within the service area of the post.

Requirements:

• Experience of working with adolescents.
• Experience of working in multi-agency teams.
• The ability to work flexibly and outside normal office hours, including evening, weekends and on call-arrangement and required to be flexible and adaptable to ensure consistent provision of service.
• Evidence of a professional qualification relevant to working with children.
• Enhanced DBS dated within the last 12 months. On the update service? You could be fast tracked through our recruitment process today.
• Willingness to complete an enhanced DBS if you do not currently hold one.

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‍Must be eligible to work in the U.K