Restorative Justice Coordinator

Passionate about helping others?

Be at the heart of our children's services transformation journey and provide high quality and individualised support enabling positive outcomes and safety for victims of youth crime in North East Lincolnshire.

Join a service that empowers you, supports you and values your skills.

Make the change, be the difference to our children, our future.

As part of our team, not only can you expect real progression opportunities for your career, you will be supported with compassionate, relational leadership to help you thrive and feel safe in your practice.

North East Lincolnshire Youth Justice Service works with children between the ages of 10 and 18 who have committed offences. An important element of our work with children is to encourage them to consider the impact of their actions and think about what they may need to do to repair any harm caused through their behaviour.

As a Restorative Justice Co-ordinator at North East Lincolnshire Council's Children's Services, you will work as part of an innovative team and support people harmed by youth crime, to update them on the child's progress, offer support and make them aware of the support available through our restorative justice interventions.

Where appropriate, you will bring those who offend and victims into contact with each other to help victims recover from the impact of the crime and to enable those who offend to understand the implications of their actions and provide an opportunity to make amends in order to improve the resilience of all parties, strengthen communities and reduce the need for statutory intervention.

This role would afford you the opportunity to provide support in wider contexts such as applying restorative approaches in children's homes between staff members in teams and schools.

Restorative justice is based on a set of values with a specific ethos, language and skill set. When people in conflict come together in a restorative meeting it can be a very powerful and transformative experience for both participants and facilitators.

We need someone who likes a challenge, who is passionate, persistent and highly self-motivated. You will need to be relational, have strong interpersonal communication skills and be led by values of empathy, respect and inclusivity.

For more information, please refer to the role profile. If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact emma.young@nelincs.gov.uk

We reserve the right to close our adverts early if we have received a significant volume of suitable applications.

As part of your RewardNEL package, you will have a generous leave entitlement (including bank holidays) and enrolment into a local government pension.

You will also have access to our exclusive RewardNEL platform.

This includes a variety of salary sacrifice schemes including Cycle2Work, Holiday Extra and Tusker (Car Lease), discounts at local coffee shops and bars, direct access to our inhouse wellbeing support, free and discounted local car parking as well as instant access to new savings at major retailers, entertainment and hotels.

NELC staff can also benefit from flexible working and excellent training and development opportunities and a Fostering friendly scheme.

In order to fully comply with Safer Recruitment guidelines, if you are successful with your application, you must meet the below criteria and be able to provide:

1. At least one reference must be from your current or most recent employment, placement or work experience (if you are an agency worker at NELC, please provide your agency as a reference)
2. You must provide a professional/company email address (we cannot accept personal email addresses)
3. References must cover the last 3 years, any reasons for gaps should be detailed in your enhanced reference form. Your references will only be requested if you are offered and have accepted a position

Do you need support?

If you need any help applying for this position, please contact Wendy Trask on 07702 338542 (text or call). Wendy can support with digital access as well as offering advice and guidance about completing the different sections of the application form.

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