Youth Engagement Officer

Description

Youth Engagement Worker - Youth Justice Service
Management Grouping: Children’s Services
Location: Bexleyheath Salary: £33,915 - £39,510 per annum Contract: Fixed Term until 31 March 2025/36 hours per week Closing Date: 12 March 2023 Job Reference: CSC0000495
Bexley is a safe and supportive place to work with highly creative work undertaken by a skilled and well supported workforce – Ofsted 2018 Bexley Youth Justice Service (YJS) is part of a successful partnership and at the heart of developments to prevent crime and promote the inclusion of children in Bexley. The service is multi-agency and co-ordinates and delivers all youth justice services for children aged 10-17 years who have been referred by police or Courts. An exciting opportunity has arisen to join us on a fixed-term contract as a Youth Engagement Worker. You will work with children on the cusp of entering the youth justice system, such as children who have been interviewed under caution, released under investigation, on police bail or where an offence has resulted in a No Further Action decision. You will also work with children who have been acquitted, discharged, or fined by a court or where there are concerns around anti-social behaviour. This is an early help role sitting within the YJS; the participation of children and their families will be on an entirely voluntary basis. You will therefore need to bring excellent engagement skills, creativity, tenacity, and passion to help children achieve their full potential. We are a high performing service and welcome candidates who share our obsession to help children and young people overcome barriers to achieve and succeed. You will need to either have a relevant professional qualification such as in Youth Work, Social Work or Youth Justice, and/or have significant experience in working with adolescents. It is important that you have a creative approach, plenty of energy, initiative, and the ability to forge effective partnerships with other agencies. We are especially interested in candidates who are familiar with trauma-informed practice and have experience of delivering interventions within such a framework. Bexley Children’s Services has adopted Signs of Safety as its practice model. This strengths and solution focused ethos of working with families and colleagues is threaded throughout all areas of Children’s Social Care. As part of your role you will work alongside this practice framework. Bexley provides exceptional training, development and supervision and our YJS staff retention rates are excellent. The successful candidate will be given opportunities to develop skills and knowledge across children’s services. For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact the YJS service manager Severine Aare on 02030455054. Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service What we offer:

• Career Average Revalued Earnings Pension Scheme
• Performance Related Pay
• 25 days Annual Leave (rising to 28 after 5 years’ service) plus Bank Holiday Entitlement
• Annual Leave Purchase Scheme
• An excellent working environment at our fantastic offices
• Opportunities for flexible working with excellent ICT facilities
• MyChoice Staff Benefit Scheme – Includes Cycle to Work Scheme, access to high street shopping vouchers and online discount codes.

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About us: Bexley is an outer London Borough with the best of both worlds, located between the hustle and bustle of London and the Garden of England, Kent. Within the borough we have award winning parks, open spaces and listed heritage sites.
Your Application:

• Closing Date:12/03/2023
• CVs will not be accepted unless they are submitted with a completed application form.
• Anticipated interview date: to be confirmed

This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This post is considered by the authority to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages.