Targeted Youth Justice Worker

**Job Description
Grade 6- £36,567- £39,951pa**

**1 x Permanent**

**1 x Fixed Term Contract/Secondment Opportunity until March 2025**

**Main purpose of the role**:
You will join us in taking a Child First and trauma informed approach in promoting supportive family relationships, healthy lifestyles, reduce re-offending and diverting children from the criminal justice system. Working in partnership with colleagues from across the Integrated Adolescent Safeguarding Service to support young people that face contextual harms such as exploitation, missing, or crime. Aiming to build resilience with the young person and their family you will have knowledge relating to the issues faced by young people at risk of committing crime, bullying, peer pressure and isolation; and to intervene in their lives to minimise these risks.

Being Child First means promoting the voice, views and positive images of young people; advocating on behalf of young people at professionals meetings, ensure that their wishes and feelings are taken into account; and thinking of them as a whole person not just their behaviour. We need to motivate families to be part of the solution to the risky situations young people place themselves in around offending and going missing from home. You will have experience in successfully assessing, planning, delivering and reviewing intervention plans that take account of the complex lives young people live and bring positive change.

Havering’s Face to Face systemic model is embedded at all levels through our service, through a relational approach to management, supervision that encourages reflective practice and recording systems that enhance the practitioner’s ability to spend more time with the families and children we work with. For more information, follow this link

The opportunity to undertake training in systemic practice

Regular supervision

To work in a service that take a child-led and trauma informed approach

A rewarding and varied role

An opportunity to develop your skills; to be part of an experienced and creative team; and the opportunity to support our amazing children and young people.

If this appeals to you, we would love to hear from you;

**Additional Information**

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