Do you have the skills to effectively engage with children and their parents/carers to make positive changes? Can you work in a fast-paced environment with likeminded colleagues with a partnership approach? If so, we would like to hear from you.
Hull Youth Justice Service (YJS) is a statutory multi-agency partnership working to prevent children and young people from offending whilst safeguarding their welfare, protecting the public and helping restore the damage caused to the victims of their crimes.
As a Youth Justice Officer, you will carry out a case management role in accordance with the Youth Justice Board Case Management Guidance. Your primary focus will be on the engagement, assessment, planning, delivering interventions, public protection and management of safeguarding concerns. You will undertake assessments of children, young people and their families to identify risks, needs and strengths to inform statutory and voluntary interventions.
Working within a multi-agency framework, you will actively promote and co-ordinate access to universal and specialist services for young people and their families and produce reports based on assessments to inform a wide range of audiences, including courts, referral order panels and child protection conferences.
You will be expected to work flexibly, with a expectation of occasional Saturday and bank holiday court cover on a rota basis.
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Victoria Fenton, Assistant Youth Justice Manager on 01482 614 200 or victoria.fenton@hullcc.gov.uk
Please ensure that your application demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria against the person specification as listed in the job description.
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