202302: Youth Justice Worker

3 weeks ago

StokeonTrent, United Kingdom HM Prison & Probation Service Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 270514**Salary**:

- £28,880**Job grade**:

- Administrative Officer- Band 3**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery
- Other**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 20Contents

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Werrington, West Midlands (England), ST9 0DXAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- please see job description**Job description**:
**Join us as youth justice worker - make a difference to children and young people**

The Youth Custody Service is transforming its workforce and we want you to help us on this journey. The youth justice worker role is a based on the prison officer role, but specific to working in youth custody. It will be a driving force for changing the way children and young people are cared for in custody.

We are looking for people who have a special talent in helping young people.

You will be responsible for ensuring the security and safety of children and supporting them day-to-day in a custodial environment. You’ll get training and development to ensure you have a clear understanding of the individual circumstances for young people in custody, and how your reactions in complex or dynamic situations are key to ensuring these children are helped to build better lives.

You will support young people who may have committed serious crimes, grown up in difficult settings or have mental health concerns. These individuals will test boundaries at every level, but also have a huge potential for change.

You will need a DBS check.

**Eligibility**

To be a youth justice worker you must:

- be at least 18 years old
- have the right to work in the UK
- be reasonably fit and have good eyesight in both eyes
- have a suitable standard of hearing (without the use of hearing aids)
- be able to speak with confidence in English or (when specified in Wales) Welsh

**Essential skills**

You don’t need qualifications to become a youth justice worker. Personal qualities are more important. You need to show:

- good communication and influencing skills
- commitment to quality
- effective decision-making
- care and understanding

As a practitioner, you will be working with children, young people and families, including carers, to achieve positive and sustainable change in their lives. You will:

- demonstrate a passion to care for and about children, young people and families
- be skilled in recognising and assessing the complex needs that children, young people and families often present
- agree with the child, young person or family any specific interventions or referrals
- take an approach that will be one of respectful curiosity that challenges and supports children, young people and families to achieve their potential and stay safe
- work alongside other professionals and organisations to share the responsibility for improving outcomes

Each piece of work with a child or family will be different and you will exercise judgement on a range of evidence-based approaches to inform your practice. You will regularly evaluate the effectiveness of your methods and actions. Regular supervision with an experienced practitioner will encourage reflection on your practice. At the end of the apprenticeship, the high quality of your practice will be making a real difference to those you work with.

Find out more about being a youth justice worker.

**How to apply**

You will then be invited to complete the online tests, to see if you have the basic judgement and numerical skills expected of a youth justice worker.

**The online assessment centre**:
If you pass the online tests, we will invite you to the online assessment centre. We test to see if you have the abilities, behaviours and strengths to be a youth justice worker.

We also carry out an eyesight test, hearing test and basic health screening, including blood pressure check along with a fitness test. This will take place after you have successfully passed your assessment and once we are in a position to offer you a role.

**Job details**

**Pay**

The initial training is 37 hours a week. After training, you can choose to work 37, 39 or 41 hours a week. Your annual salary will reflect your weekly hours.

HMYOI Werrington

37 hours a week = £28,880 a year

39 hours a week = £30,702 a year

41 hours a week = £32,523 a year

All salary figures quoted include any additional allowances.

The standard working week of a youth justice worker is based on a 39 hours per week shift pattern.

You may also have opportunities to work additional paid hours.

**Benefits**
- 25 days’ annual holiday (rising to 30 days after 10 years’ service)
- paid time off for public holidays and 1 extra privilege day
- Civil Service pension of up to 20% of your salary

Read more about youth justice worker benefits.

**Training and career progression**

Working within youth custody, you’ll have a clear progress

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