Youth Offending Team Officer

Are you a passionate, dedicated Youth Offending Team Officer looking for your next role? 4Recruitment Services are recruiting a Youth Offending Team Officer to join the team based in Barnet.

Full time Post (36 hours per week)

£21.68 - £27.07 per hour Umbrella Rates

About the Service:

The local authority has a statutory responsibility to provide a Youth Offending Service (YOS) in line with the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, which requires each area to have a team of staff seconded from different agencies working together to prevent offending by children and young people.

Information on the Role:

• To supervise the statutory orders that children and young people become subject to that are the responsibility of the Youth Offending Service.
• To manage a caseload and undertake direct work with children, young people and their parents/carers, including lone working, undertaking home visits and meeting young people at other community venues.
• To prepare pre-sentence, referral order reports and other reports according to national standards.
• To represent the Youth Offending Service at the Youth Court and other Courts, including the Crown Court as required, including Saturday, Bank Holiday and any other occasional Courts.
• In partnership with children’s service social work teams to provide support for young people remanded to Local Authority accommodation to enable them to remain in the community and reduce any risk of re-offending
• To attend as required as an Appropriate Adult at PACE interviews of young people who are arrested
• To make accurate, clear assessments of risk in relation to harm to the public, dangerousness, re-offending and vulnerability and to develop and implement a risk management plan.
• To complete timely referrals to partners and other agencies and to promote multi agency working through good communication and attendance at case reviews
• Maintain accurate, up to date, evidence-based records of all young people in contact with the Service using an electronic case management system.

Essential Requirements:

• Experience of direct work with challenging and hard to engage children and young people
• A professional qualification in social work, probation, youth and community work, health, education OR relevant degree and experience of working with children and young people
• Prepared to be required to work outside normal office hours including evenings, weekends and Bank Holidays
• Experience of direct work with challenging and hard to engage children and young people
• Experience of direct work with offenders
• Excellent written and communication skills
• Enhanced DBS on the Update Service

Recruitment is done in line with safe recruitment practices.
4Recruitment Services is an equal opportunities employer.

If you are a Youth Offending Team Officer and would like to express your interest, please contact us for this great opportunity by calling on 0808 178 4445(option1) and speak to The Care Team Or email on, Careteam@4recruitmentservices.com