Reparation, Volunteer and Panel Officer
Enfield
£23/hr
Start date: ASAP
Full Time: Mon - Fri 35/hrs a week
Purpose of the Role:
1. To work with the YJS Referral Order and Volunteering Practice Lead [ROVPL], supporting the work and leading on areas as part of a dedicated Referral Order, Volunteer and Reparation Section.
2. To ensure that Enfield YJS has Reparation placements sourced, risk assessed, and utilised, and that young people are booked onto reparation at these venues, with their attendance/non-attendance recorded and communicated to the case manager.
3. To undertake all preparatory work for YJS clients attending Reparation sessions, ensuring relevant partner agencies and staff are informed of all necessary information regarding young people. This includes the production of all relevant paperwork, including risk assessments and feedback forms, ensuring that all Reparation activities available and booked are of the highest standards.
4. To work with the YJS ROVPL to ensure that Enfield YJS has Referral Order Panel volunteers and venues booked, or MS Teams sessions arranged, to ensure that Referral Order Panels proceed, inviting clients, victims, workers, and any other relevant parties, ensuring that all preparatory work for Referral Order Panels is of the highest standards.
5. To support all aspects of YJS work regarding Reparation placements and delivery, panels, volunteers, and students, including training, logistical and administrative activities, advice, and data inputting to support the ROVPL, YJS Management, and Staff Team in all related matters as part of the aims and objectives of Enfield YJS.
Essential Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Competencies:
1. Qualifications: Educated to a very good standard in English and Maths with further qualifications demonstrating a commitment to continued personal and professional development. Capacity to understand complex, abstract issues and complete written work to a very good standard. Must have a very good level of written and verbal communication and presentation skills, along with a very good demonstrable knowledge and experience of IT use and administrative systems.
2. Knowledge: Some knowledge and understanding of the Youth Justice System and its aims, child protection and welfare, and criminal justice law as it pertains to young people. Good demonstrable knowledge of issues affecting children and young people, particularly young offenders. Must have demonstrable knowledge of Criminal Justice and Welfare Legislation, Case Management, Recording, and Quality Assurance. Must also have a very good demonstrable knowledge of Anti-Discriminatory and Anti-Oppressive practice, with the ability to integrate these into all areas of practice.
3. Experience: Experience of working both in and with Children's and Youth Services, preferably with young offenders, in a busy and challenging environment, working to deadlines in a high-performing team with high standards of quality. Experience of producing, monitoring, and updating complex database systems and the production of statistics therein. Must be able to work to policies and procedures while working under own initiative.
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