Youth Justice Officer

5 months ago


St Helens, United Kingdom St. Helens Council Full time

**Job Description**:
We Are St Helens Borough Council
Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.
Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.
Making A Difference as A Youth Justice Officer in St Helens Youth Justice Service
St Helens Youth Justice Service were graded as ‘GOOD’ in their last HMPI Inspection in November 22. The YJS is a small team of multi-agency professionals who share a passion for helping and supporting children and their families and victims of youth crime, to improve their lives and make communities safer.
To do this, we work hard to prevent and reduce youth crime by pro-active engagement, providing creative and effective interventions and programmes which are restorative, trauma informed and which take a whole family approach.
Working in partnership with other agencies such as the police, courts, education and children’s social care to provide multi-agency support.
In this varied and exciting post you will play an important role which is integral to the team and you will
- Manage a case load of 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 diverting them from re-offending and entering the Criminal Justice System.
- Directly contribute to achieving positive youth justice service outcomes linked to our KPI’s, including reducing reoffending, reducing FTE’s, reducing the use of custody and reducing the unnecessary criminalisation of CLA.

To be successful in this new post, you will..
- Have experience of working directly with children and their families, proven experience in assessing needs (ie ASSET, EHAT, C&F), writing reports, planning interventions and reviewing the effectiveness of the supervision process.
- Preferably have experience of working within a Criminal Justice Setting and within a multi-agency setting.
- Provide evidence of a professional qualification relevant to working with children.

We offer.
- a robust induction programme
- access to a wide range of training and development opportunities
- an opportunity to be part of a dynamic and passionate team of youth justice professionals

Interested to Find Out More?
You can review our full job description details, and person specification information here.

Thank you for your interest in working for us.

Equality & Diversity

St Helens Borough Council is a Disability Confident Employer. Disability Confident Employers lead the way in helping to take action that changes attitudes, behaviours, and cultures for the better.
NOLAN Principles of Conduct in Public Life.
All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, and Leadership.


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