Your new role
Southend 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 timescales, following any non-engagement or compliance.The role requires excellent communication skills and the ability to engage young people and their families whilst they are on a court order.
What you’ll need to succeed
To be successful in this position, you must have UK Youth Justice experience.You must have a relevant professional qualification to degree level (or equivalent) in Youth Justice, Careers, Education & Guidance, Youth & Community, Probation Service or Social Work.As well as extensive experience of undertaking assessments and writing reports. Assessing and managing the risk of harm to others and protecting the public, managing the safety and well-being of young people both in the community and custody.Have a good knowledge of how to manage the risks young people pose to re-offending with evidence of continuing professional development and extensive knowledge of methods of youth justice intervention, child protection and prevention.

What you need to do now
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