Youth Justice Worker – HMYOI Feltham
HMP/YOI Feltham, Bedfont Rd, Feltham TW13 4NP
Starting salary: £40,357 (for a 39 hour week inc 20% unsocial)
City/Town: Feltham
Region: London
Vacancy type: Merit
Someone like you
The Youth Custody Service is transforming its workforce, and we want you to help us on this journey. The youth justice worker role is a based on the prison officer role, but specific to working in youth custody. It will be a driving force for changing the way children and young people are cared for in custody.
We are looking for people who have a special talent in helping young people.
You will be responsible for ensuring the security and safety of children and supporting them day-to-day in a custodial environment. You’ll get training and development to ensure you have a clear understanding of the individual circumstances for young people in custody, and how your reactions in complex or dynamic situations are key to ensuring these children are helped to build better lives.
You will support children and young people who may have committed serious crimes, grown up in difficult settings, or have mental health concerns.
You will need a DBS check.
An extraordinary job
Become part of a real team and help to protect the public. You’ll work directly with children and young people who have committed offences, helping them to develop new skills while playing multiple different roles within one day be that a peacekeeper, a teacher, a counsellor or a mentor.
To become a youth justice worker, you will need to:
• be at least 18 years old at the commencement of employment
• meet the Civil Service Nationality requirements
• pass a medical and fitness assessment
• meet the required eyesight standard in both eyes
• for safety reasons, meet a suitable standard of hearing.
• Whilst tattoos are permitted, including those that are visible, they must not be deemed as offensive, discriminatory, violent, or intimidating in any way. Facial tattoos are generally not acceptable, except where this is for cultural, religious, or medical reasons.
Find out more about being a youth justice worker.
Pay
The initial training is 37 hours a week. After training, you can choose to work 37, 39 or 41 hours a week. Your annual salary will reflect your weekly hours.
• 37 hours a week = £38,082 a year
• 39 hours a week = £40,357 a year
• 41 hours a week = £42,632 a year
All salary figures quoted include any additional allowances applicable to the role/location.
Benefits
• 25 days’ annual holiday (rising to 30 days after 10 years’ service)
• paid time off for public holidays and 1 extra privilege day
• Civil Service pension of up to 20% of your salary
• cycle to work scheme, travel loans and other benefits
Read more about youth justice worker benefits.
Assessment Process
During the recruitment process you will be assessed on the behaviours, strengths and abilities you need to become an effective youth justice worker. These include:
• communicating and influencing
• managing a quality service
• making effective decisions
• Caring
Online Tests
You will be invited to complete stage 1 of the online test, to see if you have the basic judgement and numerical skills.
If are successful, we will invite you to complete stage 2, a task-based assessment.
The online assessment centre (OAC)
On successful completion of the online tests, we will invite you to an online assessment centre.
Once you have successfully completed the online assessment centre, we will invite you to complete a medical and fitness test.
Read more about the application process.
Job offers: pass vacancy
This is a pass job vacancy. If you are successful at the online assessment centre you will be offered a job immediately if there is a position available.
If there are no vacancies, you will be placed on a reserve list and will be offered a job as soon as there is a vacancy.
Your successful pass from assessment centre will be valid for 12 months if you want to apply for vacancies at other prisons.
Operational Support Grade Role
Our Online Assessment Centre (OAC), will not only assess you against the key criteria to become a youth justice worker but will also determine your suitability for appointment as an operational support grade OSG If following attendance at your OAC, you are unsuccessful in your application to become a youth justice worker, we may instead offer you an alternative role as an OSG.
Reasonable adjustment support
As a Disability Confident employer, the MoJ is committed to ensuring that everyone can demonstrate their skills, talent, and abilities. Offering reasonable adjustment support to candidates when they apply for one of our jobs is just one way, we do this.
Applying for reasonable adjustment support has been made simple. Just tick ‘yes’ when it asks if you think you might need it.