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Youth Justice Officer
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Job Title: Youth Justice Officer
Length of assignment: Initially 3 Months
Hours per week: 37
Hourly rate: 33.30
Location: Walsall Civic Centre
Remote/Office based: Hybrid - Monday & Tuesday in the office
The Role:
To work as part of a multi-agency team to provide an integrated approach to delivering services to achieve the principle aim of the Youth Justice Service - to prevent and reduce offending by children and young people.
To deliver robust services to children and young people who offend, including carrying out effective assessment, planning and delivery of youth justice services to young people, parents / carers and victims of crime
To carry out a range of tasks as identified and allocated by the Senior Practitioner, Team Manager, Operational Lead or Strategic Lead for Youth Justice services in line with policies, procedures and protocols
Responsibilities:
- To manage assigned tasks in accordance with policies, procedures, protocols, effective practice guidelines, case management guidelines, national standards and relevant legislation.
- To make a speedy and appropriate response to all work allocated
- Assessments (ASSET+ and Prevention and Diversion Assessment Tool PDAT)
- To undertake holistic, good quality, assessments of children and young people who have offended, including assessments of risk and vulnerability.
- To complete timely and good quality reports relating to young people including Referral Order reports, Pre sentence reports, Progress reports, breach reports, early revocation reports, victim reports and other non-youth justice specific reports such as reports for , child protection case conferences, school exclusion panels and care proceedings.
- To accurately maintain client information and records.
- To attend Court as and when required to represent the service and proactively present information (both verbally and in writing) to the Court to assist in making decisions on bail, remand and sentencing and in prosecuting noncompliance through breach proceedings.
- To fully and robustly undertake and participate in, the duty officer rota and panel advisor rota.
- To coordinate, facilitate and deliver group work programmes.
- To lead identified and allocated pieces of reflective practice / reviews
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