Youth Justice Service Restorative Justice Officer

The Role:

Please note that this role sits with Hampshire Youth Justice Service (YJS)

The Youth Justice Service is a multi-disciplinary team delivering services to prevent and reduce offending behaviour amongst young people.

This role will find you working with children known to the YJS, and the harmed people of their crimes, to discuss the impact of their offences and to explore the possibility of their involvement in the restorative process. You will support both parties through the various restorative options and will chair face to face restorative meetings. You will offer training to the wider team and ensure that victim safety and the victim's voice is heard within risk planning processes.

What you'll do:

Hampshire Youth Justice Service offers you the chance to make real changes to children and families lives in a dynamic and creative way. 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 are a high-quality service that strives to support the complex needs of children, and to achieve sustainable outcomes for those children for those children who have been referred into the service.

Within the team there are a wide range of professionals including specialist practitioners in mental health, Police, Probation, Social Care, Parenting and Education, Training and Employment. This combined multi- disciplinary team allows Hampshire Youth Justice Service to function at the highest level.

What we're looking for:

• GCSE English and Maths, Grade A - C, or equivalent.
• IT skills, including experience of Microsoft Office programmes Word and Excel.
• Highly skilled at building meaningful relationships with children and families to engage them in assessments and plans.
• Creative, flexible and forward thinking in your approach.
• Experienced in working with children and families including those from vulnerable groups or with complex/challenging behaviours.
• Able to use your excellent mediation and negotiation skill on behalf of service users.
• Good communication skills - listening, understanding, ability to express self to people from a range of backgrounds and cultures and ability to negotiate with service users, relatives and providers.