Criminal Justice Worker - Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom - Remedi - Restorative Services

Remedi - Restorative Services

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Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Are you empathic and caring?

Do you want a job that makes a positive change to people's lives?

Do you want to help people be the people they can and want to be?

If yes, then we'd love to hear from you

PROFILE

As a Criminal Justice Practitioner, you will work with people harmed by crime and those responsible for causing the harm, to facilitate a process of communication between them called Restorative Justice.

You will be supporting individuals from a wide variety of offence types, from shoplifting and criminal damage to assault and murder/manslaughter.

This will involve working with Nottinghamshire Police, the National Probation Service, and local Prisons.

For those harmed by crime, Restorative Justice (RJ) is an opportunity to explain the impact of the offence to the person responsible, ask questions, seek an understanding and/or apology.

For those responsible for causing harm, RJ enables them to share their perspective, answer questions, provide an explanation and/or apology and express their remorse for the offence.

There are two types of RJ:

Direct RJ
communication via face-to-face meeting, phone call or video call.
Indirect RJ communication via letterwriting or shuttle messages.

The skills and qualities you will need to do the job well are:

Communication:

Listening and responding to what is being said so that people feel supported, valued and prepared to engage in RJ is an essential part of this role. There will also be an expectation that your first contact with people will be via a telephone call, so being able to engage with people over the phone is vital.

Partnership - Developing and maintaining professional and positive relationships with service users and the partner agencies we work with is essential and you must be confident and motivated to strive for this in your role. The role requires a lot of partnership working with Police, Probation Practitioners, Prison Staff and Victim Services, both face to face and over the phone. You will be expected to deliver service briefings and take a multi-agency approach to effectively risk assessing Restorative Justice interventions, which will require you to seek professional input and work closely with colleagues to manage safety for all involved.

**Flexibility
- **Working with people requires a flexible approach to ensure they are seen at times convenient to them. This can involve working on evenings and weekends. In return, we don't expect you to work a rigid 9-5 Monday-Friday working week. You will be expected to manage your diary effectively and be prepared to travel across the region to various Probation Offices, Police Stations and Prisons (and occasionally other parts of the country). You will therefore be required to be extremely organised and excellent time management is essential.

**Motivation
- **Well-facilitated RJ changes lives for the better. We want you to do that. The nature of the role means generating work through phone calls, visiting people in their homes, seeing individuals involved in crime in the community or Prison and working in close partnership with other agencies. You are going to be out and about a lot. It is not the type of job where you are going to be sat at a desk all day with your manager down the hall. You will have to use your own initiative and make judgements that consider the needs of the people you are working with, your own workload and the specific contract requirements.

There will be expectations on the amount of RJ we want you to do.

We want you to be the type of person that will see this as a challenge you want to meet because when it is achieved, lives are changed.

**IT Capable
- **Basic IT skills are required with the ability to use Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel. You will be required to produce accurate and professional written reports and update all work on a Remedi case management system. You may also be expected to use various HMPPS and Police systems where necessary and appropriate. We will encourage and expect you to maximize the use of remote methods of working with people. It is essential therefore that you are comfortable with using platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom.

Safety- We want you to work safely in all aspects of your role.

This will mean following our own/partner agency internal policies and procedures and will require you to consider safety in relation to the following aspects: