Adolescence Youth Justice Officer
Adolescence Youth Justice Officer
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Job Description
Contract Type: Permanent There are 5 posts available.
Working Hours: 9am 5pm (Monday to Friday) and a requirement to working evenings and weekends and some public holidays as per a rota over 7 days to provide a flexible and responsive service including oncall arrangements.
Worker Type: Hybrid Worker
Salary: Starting salary 39513 (Level One) rising to 40476 (Level Two) on the first year anniversary subject to satisfactory completion of a probation period (pro rata for part time)
Location: Citywide
*We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high volume of applicants. Early application is encouraged.
Thank you for your interest in joining Nottingham City Council. We have already launched an exciting period of transformation across the Council aligned to our recent Improvement Plan.
We are committed to overcoming the challenges of recent years whilst setting an ambitious forwardthinking course for the citys future.
With a clear vision and a strong resolve we are committed to creating an aspirational environment where every child and young person in Nottingham has the opportunity to achieve learn and be safe in their family environment.
Nottingham Childrens Services are at a critical point in our transformation journey. We are transforming our approach to delivering early help we have taken on board learning from recent inspections and the national Care Review and are focused on embedding continuous improvement across our services.
Weve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce perhaps this is the opportunity youve been looking for Read on to find out more
Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme we strive to create an innovative inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.
In return we are looking for people like you people who are innovative driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city we want to hear from you.
* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.
About the Role
You will provide targeted support and interventions for adolescents and their families addressing their unique developmental needs and challenges fostering positive family relationships with a key focus on coordinating and delivering a range of activities and services aimed at preventing and reducing offending by children. You will assess supervise and provide interventions to support children subject to a range of statutory and nonstatutory casework deliver court services and be responsible for the assessment of risk and safety and wellbeing of children and young people within the guidance of current legislation policy and practice.
About You
The ideal candidate will have:
- Dip SW/CQSW Dip PS or equivalent level degree in a relevant children service (e.g. education health youth work youth justice)
- Experience of assessing risk and safety and wellbeing of children and translating these assessments into detailed analytical reports and effective intervention plans aimed at preventing and reducing the risk of further offending and strengthening protective factors.
- Experience of using a range of preventative and early intervention theories and models when working with children who are considered to be at risk of offending.
- Experience of building good working relationships with partners children and families to overcome barriers to engagement.
- Ability to deliver high quality services and interventions including those that take account of adverse and traumatic childhood experiences neurodiversity special educational needs diversity and demonstrate a strengthsbased and solutionfocused approach that will give confidence to children young people and their families.
- Sound knowledge of safeguarding and Youth Justice issues and experience of applying legislation and policy and procedure to practice including the relevant assessment framework and integrated working.
This post is covered by the statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) (English Language Requirement for public sector workers) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for the role.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
The role requires you to participate in the on call rota.
You can find the job description for this post here
At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements depending on the role including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional informationfor applicants page.
For informal enquiriesplease contact Thomas Cullen Adolescence Service Manager by telephone onor by email at
Closing Date: 11:59pm 1st June 2025
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held:Week commencing 9th June 2025
If you have any technical issues when completing your application please contact our Employee Service Centre: applying to this job you agree to ourTerms & Conditions.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full Time
