Birmingham Youth Justice Service is in the middle of an exciting and extensive modernisation programme with a clear goal to become the sector leading youth justice service.We are creating a progressive, creative, energetic and inspiring Service that is best equipped to understand and reduce offending behaviour amongst children and we are looking for the right people to help us to achieve this.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for the right individuals to join Birmingham Youth Justice Service as a Youth Justice Worker
This role will involve you being the responsible officer for children who are open to the Birmingham Youth Justice Service on either a statutory or non-statutory basis, who will lead on assessments and plans to ensure all their risks and needs are fully understood, addressed and reduced to enable that child to move away from the justice system.
About you:
Youarethe right person if you:
* can see beyond the offence and see the child.
* want to tackle head on disproportionality and inequality across youth justice.
* believe that behaviour is a form of communication and offending is symptomatic of their experiences.
* are committed to hearing the voice of the child, their families/carers and their victims and bringing this into the centre of what we do.
* want to workwithchildren to build on their strengths and promote a childhood removed from the justice system.
There is nothing more fulfilling and rewarding than knowing that you have helped a child but if that is not enough, then these vacancies also come with:
* Competitive rewards, including salary
* Generous Annual Leave allocation
* Various additional employee benefits
* Opportunity to join the Local Government Pension Scheme
* A commitment to your personal learning and development
* Excellent career progression opportunities
We have been rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted, following a 2023 inspection.This is a fantastic achievement for Birmingham Children's Trust, with many positive highlights focusing on areas including the quality of staff leadership, partnership working, safeguarding and corporate parenting.
This is a hybrid role based in Birmingham so you must reside within a suitable commutable distance around Birmingham and have the correct right-to-work documents to work in the UK. Sadly, we do not support those who require sponsorship.
Come and join us on our improvement journey and help us to ‘be the best we can be’!
Interviews will be held on Wednesday 30th July 2025.
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