Youth Justice Officer Jobs

Youth Justice Officer
Norfolk
£20 Per Hour

We are currently looking for a Youth Justice Officer for a role in Norfolk. The Youth Justice Officer (YJO) is responsible for carrying out the case management role, in accordance with the Youth Justice Board Case Management Guidance (2010), with a primary focus on: engagement, assessment, planning, delivering interventions, public protection and management of safeguarding concerns.

The YJO will be the practitioner who has an overview of the longer-term aim of preventing offending and has responsibility for interventions, services and plans in place for the child/young person as well as monitoring how they are progressing in relation to them.

Principal Accountabilities

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, in order to inform statutory and voluntary interventions.

Assess the risks young people pose to themselves and the public and implement plans to manage these.

Promote the welfare needs of children and young people and take appropriate action to safeguard them, in line with local and national guidance.

Maintain an up to date working knowledge of relevant legislation, research and theory (including effective practice principles), and work in accordance with local and national procedures, guidance and standards in order to deliver a high quality service to children, young people, families, victims and local communities.

Manage a caseload (from low to high risk) and develop, contribute to, and participate in interventions to prevent offending and re-offending by children and young people and to restore the damage caused to victims, working in accordance with the principles of restorative approaches and restorative justice.

For more information please call Sam on 01616670021 or email