Adolescent Worker

**Adolescent Worker - Youth Justice **:Posted on 24 April 2024 Apply
- Directorate BHCC: Families Children & Learning
- Salary £37,336 - £40,221
- Contract Permanent

**Location**:
Brighton

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**Job Summary**:
- Job reference
- orbis/TP/572/6900- Positions available
- 1- Working hours
- 37- Closing date
- 19 May 2024- Job category
- Social Work - Children- Organisation
- Brighton & Hove City Council

**Job introduction**:
**Are you a creative and motivated person looking to build meaningful relationships with young people within a well-established and skilled team?**

**Are you looking to make a real difference by working in partnership with young people and their networks to reduce re-offending and promote wellbeing?**

**Are you looking for a rewarding, varied role where each day can offer diversity, challenge and success?**

**We are recruiting for a new Adolescent Worker to join our well established Youth Justice Team**

**Permanent full time post**

**Salary range £37,336- £40,221**

Telephone : 01273 296169

**About the role**:
**The Youth Justice Team **provides an essential service to children and young people in the city who are involved in anti-social and offending behaviour. These are often vulnerable young people whose life chances are adversely affected by family difficulties, trauma and loss, substance misuse, emotional/ mental health issues and exploitation.

The Youth Justice team is integrated within the multi-disciplinary Adolescent Service, with access to specialists in mental health, education, family therapy, social work and substance misuse. Within the Adolescent Service, there is close collaboration between teams working with young people and their families.

The YJ team also works in partnership with wider social work teams, Police, Probation, Education & SEN teams, Health, Community Safety and the voluntary sector. For example, we work closely with Courts and criminal justice partners to ensure children are not unnecessarily criminalised and receive appropriate support to enable them to understand and participate in youth justice processes.

We are looking to recruit a motivated, reflective, creative practitioner who is committed to building trusting relationships with young people and their families. We are looking for someone with the enthusiasm and resilience to make a difference to children who face multiple challenges in life. Our model of practice is relationship-based and trauma -informed, aligned with evidence
- based approaches to youth justice.

You will need to have a relevant qualification (equivalent to a DipSW), substantial (at least 12 months) experience working with children or young people in a statutory setting and be adept at assessing risk and need and responding to changing circumstances. You will need an understanding of child safeguarding procedures and ideally have experience of risk management. Good analytical and writing skills are essential to the role, for example the ability to write court reports, assessments and risk management plans.

You will need to be committed to playing a part in dismantling racist structures and challenging racial inequality and all forms of discrimination. This is a lead focus of BHCC Adolescent Service and something each team is actively working to address through individual and collective learning and development.

Our service is committed to ensuring equality of provision and we are proud to work within Brighton & Hove, which has pledged to be an anti-racist council.

For full details of essential criteria, please see attached job description and person specification.

At Brighton & Hove City Council we offer staff a range of benefits. If you choose to work for us, in return we can offer you:

- A competitive salary
- Career average pension scheme
- Generous holiday
- An opportunity to enhance your knowledge and skills
- A range of other staff benefits

**Additional information**:
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

**Part office / part home - hybrid** - We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining.

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us (brighton-hove.gov.uk)

**Company information**:
**Encouraging a diverse workforce**

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).