YJS Officer

Hampshire Youth Justice Service offers you the chance to make real changes to children and families lives in a dynamic and creative way.

We are a high-quality service that strives to support the complex needs of children, to achieve sustainable outcomes for those children within the criminal justice system. Within the team there are a wide range of professionals including specialist practitioners in mental health, Police, Probation, Restorative Justice, Parenting and Education, Training and Employment. This combined multi-disciplinary team allows Hampshire Youth Justice Service to function at the highest level.

The Role:

The purpose of this role is to work as part of the Hampshire Youth Justice Service (YJS), responsible for the development and delivery of effective and innovative interventions and reparation projects to prevent and reduce offending by children and young people, using trauma informed, child-first and restorative approaches.

This role offers the successful candidate an opportunity to work in a specialist field whilst being part of a committed, creative and experienced team.

We have two roles available - in North-West Hampshire (office base Basingstoke) or North-East Hampshire (office base Aldershot).

What you'll do:

Being part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will work with children and young people aged 10 -18 years old who have offended and are made subject to a range of community and custodial disposals.

You will:

• Use professional knowledge to assess, monitor and review social care needs of complex children aged 10 to 18 years old who have found their way into the criminal justice system, in accordance with agreed competencies, quality standards and professional good practice in relation to case and risk management.
• Hold cases and work directly with the children and their families to prevent re-offending, help improve their relationships, school attendance and to support parents.
• Liaise and work in partnership with other agencies to affect the best outcome possible for the child and to enable them to move forward, not to re-offend and to help to re-integrate them back into the community to which they belong.

What we're looking for:

Our successful candidate will have experience in working with children and families, including those from vulnerable groups or with complex/challenging behaviours and those who have experienced trauma or loss.

You need to have knowledge and understanding of child development, parenting capacity, environmental factors and risk/protective factors.

The role requires awareness of a range of intervention methods and experience of formulating and implementing effective interventions with children, young people and their families or carers who may be challenging and/or vulnerable.