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Youth Justice Officer

Job Description

Service Care Solutions are looking for a Youth Justice Officer to work within the Manchester City Council on a 2-month initial contract.

Location: Ardwick

Job role/responsibilities:
The role holder will deliver high quality services to young people and their families aimed at preventing and reducing offending.

  • Prepare reports for court and other agencies in line with national, and other relevant standards.
  • Make appropriate assessments and supervise and/or manage pre-sentence interventions and enforce all sentences and Orders as appropriate.
  • Provide thorough care for young people serving Detention and Training Orders and other custodial sentences, and post release supervision in line with national and other relevant standards.
  • Work in partnership with other agencies to reduce and prevent youth offending.
  • Ensure that all tasks are carried out to National Standards requirements and performance meets locally agreed targets and outcomes.
  • Adhere to the Working Together guidance as well as locally agreed structures and policies to improve the safeguarding of children and young people who are on the caseload.
  • Ensure case recording is timely, accurate and complete and to take responsibility for the quality of data input, extracted and/or analysed from electronic or hard copy systems, to comply with MCC Data Quality Strategy.
  • Personal commitment to continuous self-development and service improvement.
  • Through personal example, open commitment and clear action, ensure diversity is positively valued, resulting in equal access and treatment in employment, service delivery and communications.

Knowledge/Experience:

  • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively taking account of individual need including consideration of accessibility issues.
  • Ability to identify patterns and trends that may impact on decisions with skills to identify and assess risks and any assumptions made.
  • Excellent time management skills, creating own work schedules, prioritising, preparing in advance and setting realistic timescales for own self and others.
  • Ability to formulate independently a range of options for new or unfamiliar situations and to select the appropriate course of action to produce a logical, practical and acceptable solution.
  • Ability to find creative solutions where there are no existing parameters or procedural framework.
  • Understands the importance of organisational strategy and how they contribute to it.
  • Have some familiarity with information technology, including excel and word packages and the ability to learn Childview and other MCC systems.

Qualifications:

  • Possess relevant qualification or equivalent relevant experience - DipSW, Degree in Social Work, Qualified Probation Officer PCEP (Professional Certificate in Effective Practice), NVQ Level 4 in Community Justice.

If you are interested in this role or want further discussion, please contact Lewis O'Donnell either via email: lewis.odonnell@servicecare.org.uk or tel: 01772208962. Alternatively, if you have any friend or colleagues that might be interested, please feel free to refer them as we a have a referral scheme in place of up to £250.