Youth Justice Officer

About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join Cambridgeshire Youth Justice Service as a Youth Justice Officer (YJO). This is a key role in our multi-disciplinary service and primarily you will be expected to engage, assess and work directly and creatively with children and young people who are at risk of offending or who have offended.

This is a varied job, and you will also need to be able to effectively support parents/carers and work in partnership with other agencies to keep young people and others safe. You will also have statutory duties and be required to attend court and undertake comprehensive assessments and written reports.

We are seeking a dynamic individual who is Child First in their approach and who is keen to work collaboratively with young people, helping to support changes and solutions in difficult and often complex situations. The role can be fast paced and is ideally suited to someone with excellent communication skills, who has experience in engaging young people positively and effectively and who has the necessary skills to case manage and meet competing demands within agreed timescales.

This is a temporary role for up to 12m covering maternity leave with an office base in Huntingdon. You will visit young people at their home, in schools or other community venues and there is also the opportunity to work from home regularly. The post holder will cover the geographical area of Huntingdonshire and cover courts across the county and sometimes beyond.

For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Darren Minns (Acting Team Manager) on 07789652430.

What will you be doing?

You will be expected to represent the service at court including supporting young people and their families through the criminal justice system.

About you
You will be:

- experienced at engaging with adolescents in a work setting
- experienced in managing a caseload, casework and inter-agency working
- able to communicate effectively at all levels
- committed to achieving the best outcomes for young people
- able to maintain compliance with policy and procedures

About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme