Social Worker Youth Justice

Rated 'GOOD' by Her Majesty's Inspection of Probation in November 23, St Helens Youth Justice Service is a small team of multi-agency professionals. We share a passion for helping and supporting children and their families and victims of youth crime, to improve their lives and make communities safer. To do this, we work hard to prevent and reduce youth crime by pro-active engagement, providing creative and effective interventions and programmes which are restorative, trauma informed and which take a whole family approach.

In this varied and exciting post you will play an important role which is integral to the team and will…

Manage a case load of youth justice cases, working innovatively with young people from diverse backgrounds and engaging them; their families and other professionals to assess, develop and deliver interventions and activities that support their personal and social skills and participation in society. The role will be directly contributing to youth justice service outcomes by creatively engaging young people who are subject to youth justice orders and interventions. Best practice in equality, diversity and inclusion will feature throughout the work.

Undertake regular Court duty, providing advice and support to young people, their families and the judiciary.

Write reports to a high standard and within tight timeframes for Youth Magistrates and Crown Courts and to confidently present these reports to the Court in person as required. Directly contribute to achieving positive youth justice service outcomes linked to KPI's, including reducing reoffending, reducing FTE's, reducing the use of custody and reducing the unnecessary criminalisation of CLA.