Job Description
Service Care Solutions are looking for a Youth Justice Officer to work within the Manchester City Council on a 2-month initial contract.
Location: Ardwick
Job role/responsibilities:
The role holder will deliver high quality services to young people and their families aimed at preventing and reducing offending.
1. Prepare reports for court and other agencies in line with national, and other relevant standards.
2. Make appropriate assessments and supervise and/or manage pre-sentence interventions and enforce all sentences and Orders as appropriate.
3. Provide thorough care for young people serving Detention and Training Orders and other custodial sentences, and post release supervision in line with national and other relevant standards.
4. Work in partnership with other agencies to reduce and prevent youth offending.
5. Ensure that all tasks are carried out to National Standards requirements and performance meets locally agreed targets and outcomes.
6. Adhere to the Working Together guidance as well as locally agreed structures and policies to improve the safeguarding of children and young people who are on the caseload.
7. Ensure case recording is timely, accurate and complete and to take responsibility for the quality of data input, extracted and/or analysed from electronic or hard copy systems, to comply with MCC Data Quality Strategy.
8. Personal commitment to continuous self-development and service improvement.
9. Through personal example, open commitment and clear action, ensure diversity is positively valued, resulting in equal access and treatment in employment, service delivery and communications.
Knowledge/Experience:
10. Ability to communicate clearly and effectively taking account of individual need including consideration of accessibility issues.
11. Ability to identify patterns and trends that may impact on decisions with skills to identify and assess risks and any assumptions made.
12. Excellent time management skills, creating own work schedules, prioritising, preparing in advance and setting realistic timescales for own self and others.
13. Ability to formulate independently a range of options for new or unfamiliar situations and to select the appropriate course of action to produce a logical, practical and acceptable solution.
14. Ability to find creative solutions where there are no existing parameters or procedural framework.
15. Understands the importance of organisational strategy and how they contribute to it.
16. Have some familiarity with information technology, including excel and word packages and the ability to learn Childview and other MCC systems.
Qualifications:
17. Possess relevant qualification or equivalent relevant experience - DipSW, Degree in Social Work, Qualified Probation Officer PCEP (Professional Certificate in Effective Practice), NVQ Level 4 in Community Justice.