Youth Justice Officer (Merseyside)

We are currently recruiting for a Youth Justice Officer in Merseyside.

Pay rate: PAYE 15.62 per hour/UMB 19.54 per hour

Hours:  Office hours 09:00-17:30

Contract duration: Temporary ongoing

Purpose:

As a YJ Officer for the Youth Justice Service in our client’s area you will:

Hold responsibility for developing a trauma-informed approach to individual assessment, planning & interventions with children & families who have Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES). To work in conjunction with their Team Manager and Manager YJS to:

• Manage a case load of youth justice children from diverse backgrounds and work innovatively with them, engaging them and their families and other professionals in order to assess, develop and deliver intervention and activities that support their personal and social skills and participation in society.
• Directly contribute to achieving positive youth justice service outcomes linked to KPI’s including reducing reoffending, reducing FTE’s, reducing the use of custody and reducing the unnecessary criminalisation of CLA.

Duties: 

• 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 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 represent YJ in the Youth Magistrates’ and Crown Court providing advice and support to children, their families, and the judiciary. Undertaking assessments within a secure area will also be part of the role when working in court.
• 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.
• Working collaboratively with children and a wide range of agencies, adopt creative and innovative approaches to deliver effective evidence-based group or individual interventions/programmes to reduce the risk of offending and disengagement from education, training and employment
• To adopt a restorative approach in engaging children and work together with colleagues to support opportunities to repair harm.
• To maintain clear, precise and appropriate case management records on IT client information systems, in accordance with local and national standards and in line with data protection guidelines
• Prepare, deliver and participate in the running of group work programmes.
• 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.
• Work within a performance management framework, achieving outcomes identified through performance indicators in the service area.
• To comply with our client’s Health and Safety Policy and associated safe working procedures and guidelines.
• To comply with our client’s Comprehensive Equality Policy and to ensure that it is implemented within the service area of the post.
• To comply with our client’s Information Management Framework (including the Data Protection Policy, Code of Practice and Social Media Policy).

Experience: 

• Essential:
• Experience of working with adolescents.
• Experience of working in multi-agency teams
• Provide evidence of a professional qualification relevant to working with children

Apply online or contact Terri O’Keefe on 01925 377 878. You can also email terri@peelsolutions.co.uk for more information on this role.