Youth Justice Officer - Norwich, United Kingdom - Triumph Consultants Ltd

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What's involved with this role:


Temporary Youth Justice Officer - Youth Offending Team

Reference no:
Norfolk

Pay rate:
£18.35 per hour PAYE

Role length:
This opening assignment is for 3 months

Enhanced DBS required for this role

Car driver with valid license and insurance and ability to travel throughout the county A Youth Justice Officer is required, with high risk youth justice case management experience, to make a significant contribution to the development of Norfolk Youth Justice Service (YJS) services to children, their families, victims and the local community. The Youth Justice Officer (YJO) is responsible for carrying out the case management role, in accordance with the Youth Justice Board Case Management Guidance (2010), with a primary focus on engagement, assessment, planning, delivering interventions, public protection and management of safeguarding concerns. Knowledge of youth justice case management system and AssetPlus is essential for this role. Will be expected to work flexibly, with a clear expectation of evening, weekend and bank holiday working. This includes work on a rota basis to cover weekend and bank holiday court and statutory contacts cover. The postholder will be required to travel to other work locations in Great Yarmouth, King's Lynn and Norwich and also out of the county, which are not always on public transport routes, including home visits and visits to secure establishments.


Key responsibilities:

  • Undertake assessments of children, young people and their families (using YJBapproved assessment tools and other relevant assessment frameworks) to identify risks, needs and strengths, in order to inform statutory and voluntary interventions.
  • Assess the risks young people pose to themselves and the public and implement plans to manage these.
  • Promote the welfare needs of children and young people and take appropriate action to safeguard them, in line with local and national guidance.
  • Maintain an up to date working knowledge of relevant legislation, research and theory (including effective practice principles), and work in accordance with local and national procedures, guidance and standards in order to deliver a high quality service to children, young people, families, victims and local communities.
  • Manage a caseload (from low to high risk) and develop, contribute to, and participate in interventions to prevent offending and reoffending by children and young people and to restore the damage caused to victims, working in accordance with the principles of restorative approaches and restorative justice.
  • Produce written and verbal reports based on assessments to inform a wide range of audiences, including courts, referral order panels and child protection conferences.
  • Provide court duty services to the youth and crown courts as required, including Saturdays and Bank Holidays on a rota basis.
  • Act as the Youth Justice Service Panel Adviser in Referral Order panels on a rota basis.
  • Maintain accurate and timely records in both electronic and written format to enable performance to be monitored, evaluated and reported on.
  • Work within a multiagency framework and actively promote and coordinate access to universal and specialist services for young people and their families.
  • Attend training events, supervision meetings and other team, formal (including Effective Practice Groups) and informal meetings as required in order to contribute to professional, service and selfdevelopment.

"Role Requirements" - to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria:


Qualifications:


  • Professional qualification in an allied service (e.g. social work. teaching, health) OR Professional Certificate in Effective Practice / Youth Justice Certificate with significant relevant experience.
  • Demonstrable achievement of self development through training courses.

Experience:


  • Experience of managing a caseload of young people with emotional, behavioural or offending concerns.
  • Experience of undertaking comprehensive assessments of children and young people, including assessments of risk and safeguarding needs.
  • Experience of working within a multiagency context.
  • Experience of designing and implementing interventions intended to change behaviours and achieve positive outcomes.
  • Experience of working within the youth justice system desirable.
  • Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.

Skills & Knowledge:


  • Knowledge of youth justice case management system and AssetPlus is essential for this role.
  • Ability to undertake informed and analytical assessments of young people and to translate these into the delivery of appropriate interventions.
  • Ability to identify public protection, safeguarding and offending risks and implement plans to manage these.
  • Effective and creativ
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