Youth Justice Officer

Job Description

Job Title : Youth Justice Officer
Job Category : Social Care – Unqualified
Category : Agency Workers
Location : Lord Street Resource Centre, Lord Street, WA10 2SP, St. Helens MBC
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Imediate start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £15.62

Hold responsibility for developing a trauma-informed approach to individual assessment, planning & interventions with children & families who have Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES). To work in conjunction with their Team Manager and Manager YJS to:

• Manage a case load of youth justice children from diverse backgrounds and work innovatively with them, engaging them and their families and other professionals in order to assess, develop and deliver intervention and activities that support their personal and social skills and participation in society.
• Directly contribute to achieving positive youth justice service outcomes linked to KPI’s including reducing reoffending, reducing FTE’s, reducing the use of custody and reducing the unnecessary criminalisation of CLA.