Youth Offending Team Officer

Contract to start ASAP

Duration: 24 weeks with a possible extension.

Responsibilities:

To supervise the statutory orders that children and young people become subject to that are the responsibility of the Youth Justice Service.

To ensure the sentence of the court is delivered by encouraging and facilitating compliance by young people with their court orders and to use enforcement processes in cases where young people do not comply with their court orders.

To prepare pre-sentence, referral order reports and other reports (AssetPlus Assessment and Prevention and Diversion Assessments Tool for Turnaround and Out-of-Court resolutions) according to national standards.

To represent the Youth Justice Service at the Youth Court and other Courts, including the Crown Court as required, including Saturday, Bank Holiday and any other occasional Courts.

In partnership with children's service social work teams to provide support for young people remanded to Local Authority accommodation to enable them to remain in the community and reduce any risk of re-offending.

To work in partnership with the Secure Estate visiting and delivering a service to young people who are remanded or sentenced to custody in order to address their offending behaviour and related issues in preparation for release and to facilitate their resettlement into the community.

To attend as required as an Appropriate Adult at PACE interviews of young people who are arrested.

To undertake office duty as required.

To manage a caseload and undertake direct work with children, young people and their parents/carers, including lone working, undertaking home visits and meeting young people at other community venues.

To use ASSETPlus and other assessment tools to gather and analyse information that leads to an accurate in-depth understanding of a young person's offending behaviour.

To make accurate, clear assessments of risk in relation to harm to the public, dangerousness, re-offending and vulnerability and to develop and implement a risk management plan.

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