3 posts | permanent contracts | 37 hours per week | £30,151 to £32,020 per annum (Grade H) | Norwich, King’s Lynn or Great Yarmouth

Our Norfolk Youth Justice Service (NYJS) is a statutory multi-agency partnership hosted within Norfolk County Council to prevent children from offending whilst safeguarding their welfare, protecting the public and helping restore the damage caused to the victims of their crimes.

As a Youth Justice Worker (YJW), you will manage a caseload of low to medium risk cases, including prevention and develop, contribute to, and participate in interventions to prevent offending and re-offending by children. Your primary focus will be on the engagement, assessment, planning, delivering interventions, public protection and management of safeguarding concerns. You will undertake assessments of children and their families (using YJB-approved assessment tools and other relevant assessment frameworks) to identify risks, needs and strengths to inform statutory and voluntary interventions.

You will promote the welfare needs of children, assess the risks they pose to themselves and the public and work alongside colleagues to implement plans to manage these. Working within a multi-agency framework, you will produce written and verbal reports based on assessments to inform a wide range of audiences, including courts, referral order panels and child protection conferences.

One post will primarily be located in the Court Team covering Youth Court duties.

You will have experience of working with children with emotional, behavioural or offending concerns and understand child and adolescent development including the impact of transitions on young people. With effective creative engagement skills with children, parents and carers, you will have the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of service users, colleagues and other professionals.

At Norfolk County Council, we put work life balance at the forefront and offer flexible, smarter working arrangements, all underpinned by leading edge technology. This is a great opportunity to join our supportive team and make a real difference to children to enable positive outcomes.

This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A full DBS check will need to be completed prior to starting this role.

We have three permanent positions available. One at County Hall (Court Team), one at Priory House in King’s Lynn and the other at Havenbridge House in Great Yarmouth. Please state in your application which post you are interested in.

If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact our Post Court Team Operations Managers by calling 01603 679100.

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

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement with the ability to buy and sell leave
• 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 – dependent on your job role and business need.
• Financial benefits such as:
  • ‘ Norfolk Rewards’ our employee discount programme which helps you save money on almost anything , from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.
  • A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
  • Relocation expenses paid upfront (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.
  • A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job.
  • Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension, new bikes and electric cars.
    

Before you apply , we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria. You can also find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

Already a Norfolk County Council employee? please apply using your @norfolk.gov.uk or @nccal.ac.uk email.

Closing date: 05 April 2023