Youth Justice Officer

**Youth Justice Officer**

**Children’s Services, Norfolk Youth Justice Service**

**Salary: £35,411 - £37,261 per annum, pro rata for part time (Scale J)**

**37 hours per week (permanent) Priory House, Kings Lynn**

Our Norfolk Youth Justice Service (YJS ) is a statutory multi-agency partnership hosted within Norfolk County Council to prevent children and young people from offending whilst safeguarding their welfare, protecting the public and helping restore the damage caused to the victims of their crimes.

As a Youth Justice Officer (YJO), you will carry out a case management role in accordance with the Youth Justice Board Case Management Guidance (2010). Your primary focus will be on the engagement, assessment, planning, delivering interventions, public protection and management of safeguarding concerns. You will undertake assessments of children, young people and their families (using YJB-approved assessment tools and other relevant assessment frameworks) to identify risks, needs and strengths to inform statutory and voluntary interventions.

Working within a multi-agency framework, you will actively promote and co-ordinate access to universal and specialist services for young people and their families and produce written and verbal reports based on assessments to inform a wide range of audiences, including courts, referral order panels and child protection conferences. The postholder 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.

With a professional qualification in an allied service such as social work. teaching, health or a professional certificate in Effective Practice / Youth Justice, you will have significant relevant experience of designing and implementing interventions intended to change behaviours and achieve positive outcomes. You will understand relevant criminal justice and childcare legislation and theories, including effective practice and restorative justice principles and will have managed a caseload of young people with emotional, behavioural or offending concerns.

For an informal discussion please contact Carla Hamilton (Operations Manager) on 01603 679100

At Norfolk County Council, we put work life balance at the forefront and offer flexible, smarter working arrangements, all underpinned by leading edge technology. This is a great opportunity to join our supportive team and make a real difference to children and young people to enable positive outcomes.

We want our people to be inspired and motivated to work well together, make the most of our workspaces, enjoy a healthy work-life balance, and deliver excellent services to Norfolk and its people. Flexibility is built into the way we work, with hybrid working a key feature for many roles. Our technology platform and equipment are first class, enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We ask that you have in place good Broadband connectivity.

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**Closing date: 12 January 2023**

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