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Salary3 months contract with A Local Authority
Job Summary:
The purpose of the role is to manage a case load of youth justice cases, support the management, quality assurance, planning and delivery of interventions by working innovatively with young people from diverse backgrounds and engaging them and their families and other professionals in order to assess, develop and deliver focussed interventions and activities that support their personal and social skills.
Key Duties/Accountabilities:
To act as the lead professional within the Youth Offending Service for cases where there are multiple and complex needs.
To establish and develop collaborative working arrangements with universal, community partners and key partner agencies such as Early Help, Children and Social Care, Education, Health, Police, Probation, Youth Custody Services, Courts, and voluntary sector organisations.
To provide support and challenge for practitioners working with vulnerable children, young people, and families, and where necessary make timely referrals to appropriate services and ensuring that there are accurate records of work undertaken using ChildView.
To support families to make positive change in their lives by using systemic intervention methods, models, and tools, with the aims of helping them to be as independent as possible and to reduce risk of harm and increase safety and wellbeing.
To conduct assessment, planning and reviewing activities and create, in conjunction with young people and families, bespoke intervention plans to address all areas of need and to regularly review the plans to ensure their suitability and effectiveness.
To engage YOS staff and partner agencies in joint training, that embeds common language, and joined up processes to increase a shared responsibility.
Essential Experience Required:
Extensive experience of successfully managing the most complex and challenging cases.
Extensive experience prioritising a case load/workload, to be able to use line management supervision appropriately, to understand its purpose and importance.
Experience of providing expert advice and support to universal and community settings supporting families.
Essential Qualifications Required:
A recognized degree level professional qualification relevant to the youth justice field such as social work, teaching, health, criminal justice and probation or a Certificate in Effective Practice in Youth Justice (PCEP) with a degree level qualification and evidence of demonstratable post qualification experience.
Additional information to note:
Enhanced DBS Required.
The closing date for this position is 15/03/24.
