Youth Justice Officer

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