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Youth Justice Officer £30ph

Job Posted: 2 days ago

Salary: £ 28 - 30 / Hour
Job Type: Temporary
Location: Luton, Bedfordshire

Expire in: a month

Job Description

Connect2Luton are working in partnership with Luton Borough Council to recruit Youth Justice Assistant to assist in all aspects of the work of the Youth Offending Service including undertaking assessments, interventions.

The post holder will have a responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people and will be expected to work in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures.

You will assist in all aspects of the work of the Youth Offending Service including undertaking assessments, interventions, acting as Appropriate Adult under PACE, supervising activities including reparation & unpaid work, community surveillance, transporting young people & family members, and supporting young people especially those living independently to achieve the Service's core aim to prevent offending and re-offending.

Main Responsibilities:

Develop, contribute toward and participate in assessments (including health & safety risk assessing reparation projects) and programmes of intervention with children, young people and families.
Ensure all children & young people are suitably supervised and monitored in accordance with their intervention programmes.
Provide advice, guidance and support to young people living independently.
Supervise children and young people undertaking reparation, unpaid work and other activities within the community and undertake surveillance checks.
Keep appropriate case records (including electronic records), complete reports and statistics as required meeting the requirements of the service.
Provide safe escort of and accompany children, young people and family members to and from various destinations both in and out of Borough and the transportation of reparation equipment and materials as required.
Attend and participate in meetings, training courses and employee development activities. 

Qualification and Experience:

Demonstrable experience of working with children & families including adolescents.
Able to communicate effectively (English - verbally and written) and to create and maintain positive working relationships with children, young people, parents and a wide range of other professionals and agencies.
Able to assess, support and motivate young people where levels of vulnerability and risk to themselves and to the public are high.
Able to work with the agency's IT equipment for the purpose of case recording.
Able to use own initiative and to work to targets and prioritise workload to strict deadlines.
Some knowledge of current legislation and issues relating to children, young people & families including children/young people who offend eg: Children Act, various criminal justice legislation & issues
A relevant professional or degree level qualification (NVQ 4) associated with one of the partner agencies
Flexibility to work as part of a rota system including daytime, evenings, weekends and bank holidays.
Clean driving license.Connect2Luton is a trading style of Luton & Kent Commercial Services LLP - A joint venture between Luton Borough Council & Commercial Services Kent Ltd. Connect2Luton is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates

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