Your new roleSouthend City Council are looking to appoint a full-time, agency Youth Justice Service Officer to ensure that the Council provides a first-class professional service within the Youth Justice Service (YJS) by working for a needs-led service to children, young people and their families in order to prevent offending and re-offending.
Within this position, hybrid working opportunities are available. However, you are required to be on-site at the Civic Centre a minimum of 3 days a week.
You will be required to regularly write assessments and/or reports for court, panels and professional meetings on young people and their families who have been identified as being at risk of engaging in offending behaviour or are at risk of offending.As the YJS, you will be supervising and enforcing complex community and custodial sentences, and delivering services to young people through support and mentoring.You will be required to highly complex cases that pose significant risk to others in the community. This could include young people involved in harmful sexual behaviour, gangs/County Lines [serious youth violence].
You will ensure high quality assessments, intervention planning, reviews and risk management take place. You will be responsible for delivering high quality reports to court, which are analytical and offer courts realistic and proportionate sentencing proposals, as well as being able to enforce court orders within designated...