Southend on Sea City Council is a Unitary local authority, providing vital services to meet the needs of the local community. We employ around 1,800 staff who are working alongside our partners and local communities to deliver the city vision and make lives better for the people of Southend.

Working for Southend on Sea City Council offers a challenging and rewarding career in local government within a collaborative and innovate environment, with the benefit of flexible working practices to support a positive work life balance. As a Unitary Authority we are responsible for all local government functions ranging from social services, transport, public health and parks through to planning, trading standards, community safety and education, so we offer a wide range of career opportunities. The diversity of our economy and communities and investment in a number of exciting regeneration projects makes our Council a great place to work, learn and make a difference.

Southend City Council are looking to appoint a full-time, agency Youth Justice Service Officer to ensure that the Council provides a first-class professional service within the Youth Justice Service (YJS) by working for a needs-led service to children, young people and their families in order to prevent offending and re-offending.

Within this position, hybrid working opportunities are available. However, you are required to be on-site at the Civic Centre a minimum of 3 days a week.

You will be required to regularly write assessments and/or reports for court, panels and professional meetings on young people and their families who have been identified as being at risk of engaging in offending behaviour or are at risk of offending.

As the YJS, you will be supervising and enforcing complex community and custodial sentences, and delivering services to young people through support and mentoring.

You will be required to highly complex cases that pose significant risk to others in the community. This could include young people involved in harmful sexual behaviour, gangs/County Lines [serious youth violence].
 You will ensure high quality assessments, intervention planning, reviews and risk management take place. You will be responsible for delivering high quality reports to court, which are analytical and offer courts realistic and proportionate sentencing proposals, as well as being able to enforce court orders within designated timescales, following any non-engagement or compliance.

The role requires excellent communication skills and the ability to engage young people and their families whilst they are on a court order.

To be successful in this position, you must have UK Youth Justice experience.

You must have a relevant professional qualification to degree level (or equivalent) in Youth Justice, Careers, Education & Guidance, Youth & Community, Probation Service or Social Work.

As well as extensive experience of undertaking assessments and writing reports. Assessing and managing the risk of harm to others and protecting the public, managing the safety and well-being of young people both in the community and custody.

Have a good knowledge of how to manage the risks young people pose to re-offending with evidence of continuing professional development and extensive knowledge of methods of youth justice intervention, child protection and prevention.

If you are interested in this role, please click 'apply online' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.

For a full JD on the post  click here

If you are wanting further information that isn't in the JD, please contact Nathalie Nathalie.s@hays.com

Please note: Applications for this vacancy may close prior to the date advertised above so you are advised to apply as soon as you are able to.

All applicants for this role will require an enhanced DBS check.

The Council is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications, regardless of race, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, age or religion or belief.