About The Role
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.
You are the 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 work with children to build on their strengths and promote a childhood removed from t...