Justice Professional

Job Title: Justice Professional

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Justice Professional to join our team at Fife Council. As a Justice Professional, you will work intensively with young people between the ages of 16-18 who have been care experienced and have come into conflict with the law.

Key Responsibilities:

• Adopt a 'young person first' approach by treating each young person in line with their age and stage development.
• Provide individualised, rights-based, and person-centred support to help prevent young people from getting into further conflict with the law.
• Frequent face-to-face contact with young people focusing primarily on welfare issues.
• Work alongside the young person to provide intensive support, which will involve supporting young people in all aspects of their life and advocating on their behalf to achieve positive outcomes.
• Liaise closely with other professionals.
• Undertake assessments and identify areas of need for intervention.
• Work on a 1:1 basis with young people.
• Co-facilitate groupwork and work with others to deliver structured activities.
• Respond in a timely manner to crisis and react to the needs of the young person.

Requirements:

• Experience of working within a social work setting.
• Ability to work flexibly and creatively to support hard-to-reach young people who are involved in varying levels of offending behaviour.
• Understanding of barriers experienced by this service user group and how to work with them alongside partner agencies to improve their outcomes.
• Ability to communicate and advocate on behalf of young people.
• Ability to work alongside supervising officers and other professionals providing support.

What We Offer:

• Enhancements are payable for unsocial hours as required.
• The work patterns may be reviewed in line with the needs of the Service.

How to Apply:

Please note that due to the nature of the work, the role will require some evening and weekend working. The positions will be based across Fife, with each worker covering a geographical area, however may be required to work out with the area depending on the needs of the young people.