Education and Training Worker

Education and Training Worker 9449 Secondment Opportunity / Temporary Fixed Term Contract until 25^th June 2027 37 hours per week 39862 to 41771 per annum Grade J Great Yarmouth

Norfolk Youth Justice Service is looking to recruit an Education Training & Employment (ETE) Coordinator to take the lead role across the service for all ETE matters and support children in youth justice to reach their full potential.

To apply please download an application form >>Here << and attach it to your online application instead of your CV. Please Note: Applications submitted without an application form will not be considered.

We are keen to appoint an experienced education professional who is passionate about improving outcomes for the most vulnerable children.

The role will involve engaging children who may have experienced trauma previous school exclusions and rejection and may have an entrenched mistrust of adults. This countywide role is part of the Education Training and Employment team within our Norfolk Youth Justice Service Partnership Strand.

All About You

The successful candidate must be passionate about and have experience in improving the education training and employment opportunities of vulnerable will have experience working with vulnerable children and the ability to deliver creative interventions.

You need to be someone who can work collaboratively with other youth justice colleagues educational providers and partner agencies to influence challenge and advocate for children in youth justice.

You will have up to date knowledge of the education system guidance and legislation and pathways into further education training and employment. You will be familiar with legislation and national guidance relating to the education of children in care and those with special educational needs.

Our Norfolk Youth Justice Service (NYJS) is a statutory multi-agency partnership hosted within Norfolk County Council established by section 37 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.

Anti-racist statement for Norfolk Youth Justice Service

The Justice Select Committee noted that race disproportionality is significant and fundamental visible in every part of the youth justice system.

We are committed to becoming an anti-racist service. We acknowledge that racism exists within the systems we deliver and operate within impacting on the disproportionate representation of children from ethnic minority groups within the youth justice system. We accept responsibility for taking action wherever and whenever racism occurs.

We will:

• Educate ourselves and encourage conversation.
• Challenge ourselves and learn from our mistakes.
• The voices of children and parents from ethnic minority communities will be listened to acted upon and incorporated into our strategies and our actions.
• We will strengthen our structures and systems our policies and our procedures so that they remove barriers for children from ethnic minority backgrounds.
• We shall be equitable in how we treat children and in the decisions we make about them.

Our aim is to prevent children and young people from offending whilst safeguarding their welfare protecting the public and helping restore the damage caused to the victims of their crimes.

Our key outcomes prioritised nationally by the Ministry of Justice are to:

• Reduce the number of children and young people coming into the youth justice system (first time entrants)
• Reduce re-offending by children and young people
• Reduce the numbers of young people going into custody (prison) either sentenced or on remand.

The postholder will be expected to work flexibly with a clear expectation of evening weekend and bank holiday includes work on a rota basis to cover weekend and bank holiday statutory contacts addition the postholder will be required to travel to other work locations in and out of the county which are not always on public transport routes including home visits and visits to secure establishments.

The postholder will be required to work with children who have demonstrated violent or sexually harmful behaviours towards other children and/or adults and who present a high risk of harm to others.

This is a great opportunity to join our supportive team and make a real difference to children to enable positive outcomes.

Before you apply we recommend reading the fullJob Description and Person Specificationtohelp you demonstrate you meet the criteria.

To apply please download an application form >>Here << and attach it to your online application instead of your CV. Please Note: Applications submitted without an application form will not be considered.

For an informal conversation about the role please contact Operations Manager or call the main switchboard .

These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
• Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time part time remote and hybrid working dependant on your job role and business need.
• Financial benefits such as:
  • Norfolk Rewards our employee discounts programme which helps yousave money on almost anything from everyday groceries and clothes to holidays new technology gym membership trips to the cinema and days out.
  • ABlue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
  • Relocation expenses (where applicable)
  • An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
  • Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution life assurance death in service payments and dependants pensions.

  • Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes

  • Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)

  • A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job

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Closing date: 18 January 2025 at 23:55

Previous Applicants need not apply