Assistant Youth Offending Team Worker

About the role
Northamptonshire Youth Justice Service (NYJS) is a successful partnership organisation working to prevent offending by children and young people, whilst helping to resolve offences for victims and protecting the public within your community.

Working across the county and in partnership with the Police and Courts we aim to assess and address the issues facing our young people and wherever possible avoid them becoming involved in further offending.

What will you be doing?
You will complete assessments, deliver interventions, signpost to other services, and broker arrangements and ensure that, wherever possible, restorative justice processes have been used for the benefit of all parties, and the young person has access to the services required to meet their needs in the future.

This post sits within the Court Team which involves close liaison with, and attendance at both the Youth and Crown Courts, areas where the NYOS is visible to the public. The role is a county wide service so the successful applicant will need to be able to travel effectively and be able to work from our offices in either Northampton or Kettering.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly effective service. We are looking for creative, persistent, and extremely motivated people to work across the county with young people, their families, victims, and volunteers to address the issues that have brought the young people to the attention of the criminal justice system and repair the harm caused through their behaviour.

About you
Educated to at least A level standard, you will have some experience of working with children and young people, the ability to engage positively with them, their parents/carers, the victims of their offences and colleagues in other agencies. You will be highly organised and self motived, whilst knowledge of youth justice legislation isn’t essential an understanding of how legislation impacts on sentencing and a desire to learn and understand legislation is of benefit.

If you can meet these challenges, we’d love to meet you.

About us
At Northamptonshire Children’s Trust, children, young people and families are at the heart of all we do - in every decision we make and every action we take. Our mission is driven by the unwavering commitment to achieving the best outcomes for them. The Trust is wholly owned and funded but operationally independent from the Councils.

Our workforce are our most valuable asset and are pivotal to making the services and support we offer to children, young people and families who need us to be the absolute best we can be.

We value our colleagues and empower them to be able to do the best job of their lives every single day, working in a culture of support and kindness where achievements are celebrated and creativity is very much welcomed.

At NCT equality, diversity and inclusion are part of us and in everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and thrive in our organisation. We are a disability confident employer and have a commitment to care leavers who we guarantee an interview if they meet the essential criteria.

Join our dedicated team and be a part of an organisation where your work makes a real difference.

Our benefits
We are committed to continuous improvement, building a skilled, knowledgeable, and flexible workforce alongside promoting innovation and creativity whilst keeping children, young people and families at the heart of all we do.

We really value our workforce and offer you a great benefits package including:

- **28 days annual leave,** plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time) and an additional 5 days, after 5 years
- **Local Government Pension Scheme plus immediate life cover** (3 times your annual salary from day one) and ill-health protection.
- **Opportunity to purchase** up to 25 days annual leave
- **Employee Assistance Programme** - We have an employee support programme run by Health Assured, an independent, external organisation. Health Assured is available for you and your immediate family members, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and includes telephone counselling, legal advice, bereavement support and medical information.
- **Employee discounts** with local and national retailers, days out, finance, health and beauty, travel and eating out plus lots more.
- **Flexible and family working arrangements** including enhanced maternity benefits
- **A permanent, supportive and inclusive management team** where you will be empowered to make good professional decisions
- Extensive Learning & Development and **career development** opportunities
- **Subsidised** town centre car parking scheme