Advance Into Justice

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

- 296452**Salary**:

- £28,880- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Administrative Assistant**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
- Wetherby, Yorkshire and the Humber, LS22 5ED : Rochester, South East England, ME1 3LU : Werrington, West Midlands (England), ST9 0DXAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Please see job description**Job description**:
**Youth Justice Worker - HMYOI Werrington, HMYOI Wetherby and HMYOI Cookham Wood**

**HMYOI Werrington - Ash Bank Rd, Werrington, Stoke-on-Trent ST9 0DX**

**HMYOI Wetherby - York Rd, Wetherby LS22 5ED**

**HMYOI Cookham Wood - Sir Evelyn Rd, Rochester ME1 3LU**

**Starting salary**:£30,702** (for a 39 hour week inc 20% unsocial)

**City/Town**: Stoke-on-Trent, Wetherby & Rochester

**Region**: West Midlands, North East & Kent, Surrey and Sussex

**Vacancy type**: Merit**

**One career, many roles**
- Advance into Justice is a recruitment scheme targeted at supporting those who have served in the Armed Forces and their families into employment within operational roles within HMPPS._
- Advance into Justice is open to Service Leavers, Veterans within 5 years of leaving the Armed Forces and their Spouses and Legal Partners._
- Successful applicants will be offered either a home to work travel or resettlement package to support their transition within their first 2 years of employment._
- All provisional offers will be held for a period of 12 months from the point of offer, to allow service leavers to plan for their exit from the Armed Forces._

Advance Into Justice, HM Prison & Probation Service

**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 able to pass our fitness test
- have good eyesight in both eyes (both with and without corrective lenses)

For safety reasons, everyone training to be a prison officer needs a suitable standard of hearing (without the use of hearing aids)

To work in a high security prison (category A) you must have been a resident in the UK for the last three years

Please add under Nationality Rules:
**Visa sponsorship**

Please note we are unable to sponsor any individuals via the Skilled Worker Sponsorship / Tier 2 (General) work visa.

**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 prac