Adolescence Youth Justice Officer (x5)

Location: Nottingham Youth Justice Service

Salary: £39,513.00 per annum

Position Type: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 01/06/2025

Nottingham Children’s Services are at a critical point in our transformation journey. We are transforming our approach to delivering early help, we have taken on board learning from recent inspections and the national Care Review and are focused on embedding continuous improvement across our services. Nottingham City Youth Justice Service are recruiting for 5x roles as Adolescence Youth Justice Officer. The role: You will provide targeted support and interventions for adolescents and their families, addressing their unique developmental needs and challenges, fostering positive family relationships, with a key focus on coordinating and delivering a range of activities and services aimed at preventing and reducing offending by children.  You will assess, supervise and provide interventions to support children subject to a range of statutory and non-statutory casework, deliver court services and be responsible for the assessment of risk and safety and wellbeing of children and young people within the guidance of current legislation, policy and practice. The ideal candidate will have: – Dip SW/CQSW, Dip PS or equivalent level degree in a relevant children service (e.g., education, health, youth work, youth justice) – Experience of assessing risk and safety and wellbeing of children and translating these assessments into detailed analytical reports and effective intervention plans aimed at preventing and reducing the risk of further offending and strengthening protective factors.  – Experience of using a range of preventative and early intervention theories and models when working with children who are considered to be at risk of offending. – Experience of building good working relationships with partners, children and families to over-come barriers to engagement. – Ability to deliver high quality services and interventions, including those that take account of adverse and traumatic childhood experiences, neurodiversity, special educational needs, diversity and demonstrate a strengths-based and solution-focused approach that will give confidence to children, young people and their families. – Sound knowledge of safeguarding and Youth Justice issues and experience of applying legislation and policy and procedure to practice, including the relevant assessment framework and integrated working.   –          This post is covered by the statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) (English Language Requirement for public sector workers) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English, is an essential requirement for the role. –          A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post. –          The role requires you to participate in the on call rota. For further information and to apply for the role(s) please see here.