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SalarySalary
£38,364 - £40,833 per annum.
Package
Permanent, Full-Time at 36 hours per week.
Job category/type
Children's Social Care
Date posted
15/01/2024
Job reference
R0006264
About us at Hounslow
We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.
About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.
Our Benefits
If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits.
About The Role
The Restorative Justice Officer plays a key role within Hounslow Youth Justice Service, with the successful applicant able to contribute their ideas and experience to shape the work undertaken with children and victims. You will passionate about working with and making a difference for the diverse community of children and young people in Hounslow. At the same time you’ll champion the needs of victims within the Youth Justice Service enabling restorative work to be undertaken wherever possible. You’ll identify and risk assess community-based reparation projects that enables children to undertake work in the community and supports them to learn new skills.
Working with children, victims, communities and families is never a 9-5 job, and the post requires the ability to work flexibly, including some evenings and occasional weekends. In return we can offer you a competitive salary, a strong support network, professional training opportunities, the ability to work creatively and to make a REAL difference to those who live in Hounslow.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
The aim of the Youth Justice Service (YJS) is to prevent offending by children and young people. The Team is made up of multi-agency professionals from the Police, the Probation Service, social work, Education and Health Service. The Team works with both children who have offended and those at risk of offending; the Team undertake assessments to better understand the reasons for any offending behaviour and the level of risk of each child’s risk of reoffending, risk to others and a child’s own safety and well-being.
The team works closely with Youth and Crown Courts providing direct support to magistrates and judges Court Duty and providing Pre-Sentence Reports to help magistrates and judges decide on the appropriate outcomes for children. The Team provides individual and groupwork interventions to children on Out of Court Disposals, on court bail, Community and Custodial Sentences. At the same time the team works with victims to support them to be involved in indirect and direct mediation with children known to the Youth Justice Service and also provides reparation activities in the community.
The Youth Justice Service is co-located with other Teams undertaking work with adolescents, enabling close, collaborative work to be undertaken.
Role Profile
The key responsibilities of the role of Restorative Justice officer are:
- To contribute to the aims of preventing offending by children and young people, improving community safety and enhancing life prospects for children and their families by developing and supporting a range of community reparation projects and mediation interventions for children, the victims of their crime, and the wider community.
- To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in partnership with others agencies to provide a range of integrated Youth Justice Services for young people, families/carers, the Courts, and the victims of crime.
- To undertake all duties within the framework provided by the council and Departmental and Youth Justice Team policies and practice guidelines, Home Office standards, Youth Justice Board guidance and relevant legislation.
About You
We are looking for someone who has: We are looking for someone who has:
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Has experience of working with victims and children who offend or may be at risk of offending.
- Understands the importance of prevention and desistance.
- Has a Child First approach to their work.
- Can form and sustain professional relationships.
If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:
- You want to make a difference to the lives of victims and children.
- You are inventive and creative.
- A self-starter who can work independently.
- You get things done.
Qualifications:
Degree or equivalent level qualification, Youth Justice or any other professional qualification is desirable, as is any relatable experience within a Youth Justice Service.
Essential for The Role:
Enhanced DBS
When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact
The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:
Email: Richard.Kashman@Hounslow.gov.uk
or Kishver.Mirza@Hounslow.gov.uk
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 12th February 2024.
