Job Introduction
Opportunities have arisen for 2 Youth Justice, Early Help & Prevention Worker(s) to be seconded into our busy, supportive, and enthusiastic Youth Justice, Early Help and Prevention team within Staffordshire Youth Offending Service.
The opportunities have come along at a pivotal time for Staffordshire Youth Offending Service as we continue to drive forward the Earliest Help and Youth Crime Prevention agenda across the County to try and keep children and young people out of the criminal justice system.
Staffordshire Youth Offending Prevention team provides a first-class service to children, young people, their parents/carers, and other stakeholders, we aim to prevent offending, build public confidence, and keep children out of the criminal justice system.
Main Responsibility
As an Early Help, Youth Justice and Prevention Worker, your role will span individual, group, family, and community work in a range of settings. Working holistically with children who are on the cusp of entering the criminal justice system, you will work to understand what the daily lived experience of those children who are referred into the YOS Prevention Service. Because our service is based on consent and working on a voluntary basis, your skills to engage children and families will be utilised effectively to assess, plan , do and review in order to try and effect change and deliver positive outcomes.
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The Ideal Candidate
We are looking for individuals to work closely with colleagues from the Prevention team who contribute in keeping children and young people out of the Criminal Justice system which in turn will provide that support to improve outcomes for children, young people, their families, and the wider community.
A Child First and contextualised safeguarding approach underpins the work of the Youth Justice Early Help and Prevention Service using the Outcome Star – Teenstar assessment to identify areas of need.
About Staffordshire County Council
We are no ordinary county council:
Our Values:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.
Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.
We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.
Our benefits:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to a range of benefits.
Our recruitment process:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities
As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Silver Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.
