Youth Offending Service Officer - YOS

About Southwark:

Southwark is a large, ambitious and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude and enviable reputation. As a Council, we are successful, passionate and forward-thinking. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promise which ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do. If you want to make a difference at a local level, apply to Southwark Council today.

The Role:

We are dedicated to delivering high quality relationship-based social work, that is child-centred, family-minded, strengths and evidence-based, outcome-focused and fair. We are looking for outstanding YJS Officers who can work to our high standards; who are experienced, skilled and committed to delivering a high quality youth justice service including assessing need, planning and delivering focused interventions to prevent offending, safeguarding children and young people, and achieving the best possible outcomes for children, young people and families. In return we will support you with extensive training, dedicated clinical advice and support, manageable caseloads, regular and high quality supervision both on a 1:1 and group basis and administrative support.

Southwark Youth Offending Service’ most recent HMIP Inspectorate confirmed their earlier findings that the YJS ‘delivers an excellent service through energised, skilled and capable staff’. We have a well-embedded practice framework, underpinned by our above principles. We make extensive use of systemic and strengths-based practices, as well as restorative, attachment and trauma informed approaches. This was noted by HMIP Inspectorate: ‘it was a pleasure to come back to Southwark YOS and see how the trauma informed practice had developed and matured over time, staff knowledge of child development was impressive and the support from the clinical team was outstanding, it leads to ways of working that we don’t see everywhere.’

Here in Southwark, we offer the chance to deliver holistic in depth work in a multi-agency setting, which also includes specialists in ETE, Restorative Justice, SALT, CAMHS, Extra Familial Harm and a Health and Well- Being Worker. New initiatives in our service include a health and well- being programme, a peer mentoring scheme, constructive resettlement and an innovative approach to preventing knife crime.

About You:

We are seeking experienced and skilled YJS Officers who have the professional potential and personal attributes that our service, children and their families need, and who wants to be supported to flourish. We have fantastic career progression opportunities through a wide range of induction and training courses.

If you have experience in youth justice, a passion for working with adolescents and their families and the resilience and creativity to help us realise our vision, we want to hear from you.

Closing date: 21st May 2023 at 23:59
Interview date: 5th June 2023

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.