Youth Justice Officer

CEMP; East Devon; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job description

Youth Justice Officer | 7861 | permanent contract | 37 hours per week | £38,626 to £40,476 per annum | Grade J | Norwich or Great Yarmouth

Our Norfolk Youth Justice Service (YJS) is a statutory multi-agency partnership hosted within Norfolk County Council 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 (2022). 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 (using YJB-approved assessment tools and other relevant assessment frameworks) 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 written and verbal 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 clear expectation of evening, weekend and bank holiday working. This includes work on a rota basis to cover weekend and bank holiday court and statutory contacts cover.

With a professional qualification in an allied service such as social work, teaching, health or a professional certificate in Effective Practice / Youth Justice, you will have significant relevant experience of designing and implementing interventions intended to change behaviours and achieve positive outcomes. You will understand relevant criminal justice and childcare legislation and theories, including effective practice and restorative justice principles and will have managed a caseload of young people with emotional, behavioural or offending concerns.

Please ensure your application includes both a CV and a covering letter which explains how you meet all essential criteria specified in the job description, including whether you have a valid driving licence for use in the UK.

We have two positions available, one is based in Norwich and the other in Great Yarmouth; please state which location(s) you are looking to work in.

At Norfolk County Council, we put work life balance at the forefront and offer flexible, smarter working arrangements, all underpinned by leading edge technology. This is a great opportunity to join our supportive team and make a real difference to children and young people to enable positive outcomes.

These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
• Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working dependent on your job role and business need.
• Financial benefits such as:
• Norfolk Rewards our employee discounts programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.
• A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
• Relocation expenses (where applicable)
• An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
• Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants pensions.
• Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes
• Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new, ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)
• A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job

Already a Norfolk County Council employee? See and apply for internal and external vacancies in myOracle using your @norfolk.gov.uk or @nccal.ac.uk email.

We would like to make you aware that priority consideration for this post may be given to current employees who are at risk due to restructure within the organisation or are in a redeployment position.
Redeployment closing date: 10 April 2025
All other applicants closing date: 17 April 2025