Job Introduction
We have a great opportunity to join our Youth Justice and Support Service in a key role to help safeguard and support children who are involved in offending, as well as their parents, carers and others affected by their behaviour, and support staff to develop and deliver an effective, evidence based service.
As a Senior Youth Offending Team Officer, you’ll work directly with young people and their families to help achieve better outcomes and keep communities safer.
You'll provide professional supervision and practice development to main grade staff within a multi-agency team covering the city of Milton Keynes. You'll contribute to the development of effective services to prevent offending by children and young people in Milton Keynes and to take lead responsibility in designated key areas of service delivery.
Our service has a focus on areas that directly impact on young people’s lives and the wider community. We’re recognised for proactively working with young people to prevent exclusions from schools and for intervening at the earliest opportunity with young people involved in knife crime through our PRRE and ACT: Now projects. We work collaboratively with children’s social care, health and police partners amongst others.
You’ll be pivotal in supporting staff to build strong and trusting relationships with young people and their families whilst working to support families to address complex needs and risks. The work is challenging and demanding and includes working with young people who are assessed as high safety concerns to others and themselves.
You’ll ideally have a qualification in Youth Justice or relevant field (Health, Education, Criminal Justice, Social Care, Police), Specialist knowledge of criminal justice, legislation and policy and research, experience of working with adolescents with complex needs.
This is a site-based role.
Interviews for this role will be held on 15 July.
Milton Keynes City Council is a modern and friendly place to work. Find out more about working with us here: www.mkcounciljobs.org.uk
Main Responsibility
- Assist the Operational Manager in the day to day operational management of a multi-agency team of professional staff and volunteers, including providing direct supervision and support.
- Coordination of a specific service area, including the day to day responsibility for staffing and allocation of resources.
- Representing the service at multi agency meetings and panels typically at a senior level.
- Ensuring Quality Standards are met through auditing and quality assurance processes.
- Supervise young people with complex needs and who are involved in offending, Serious Youth Violence and effected by exploitation, taking timely action to protect children and working with other services to ensure their needs are met and safeguarding concerns to themselves and other are reduced.
The Ideal Candidate
- Professional Qualification in Youth Justice or relevant field (probation, police, health, education, social work)
- Experience of working with adolescents with complex needs
Specialist knowledge of Youth Justice - Ability to develop and sustain partnerships with other professionals and agencies.
- Ability to encourage and support colleagues by sharing own expertise and experience of providing supervision and support to junior colleagues.
- Ability to make considered decisions, analyse and evaluate complex information in high risk situations
- For this role, the candidate is required to have a full UK driving licence, along with access to a vehicle. Evidence of the driving licence and vehicle insurance with business insurance will be required from the candidate should they be offered this position. Without this documentation the candidate will not be appointable.
- Should you be offered the role, as part of the pre-employment checks an Enhanced DBS will be actioned for you (unless you are on the DBS Update Service).
Package Description
In addition to your salary, we offer a range of benefits including:
- Great holiday benefits - most roles include 28 days annual leave every year on top of public (bank) holidays, increasing to 32 days after five years. In addition, there is a holiday purchase scheme allowing staff to purchase up to 5 additional days of leave each year.
- Excellent pension – everyone who works for us can join the national Local Government Pension Scheme, widely regarded as one of the best available.
- A full range of family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity support and a childcare subsidy.
- Access to an award-winning employee benefits programme that includes a health cash plan, a low-cost bike purchase scheme as well as high street discounts and money off entertainment and travel.
- Salary sacrifice car scheme – low-cost leasing of electric and low emission vehicles.
- Blue Light Card - employees working within social care can qualify for an additional range of discounts from national retailers and local businesses.
Why join us? Along with more on our Benefits, discover why Working at the City Council could be the right move for you here Working at the Council | Milton Keynes
Our roles are either designated ‘site based’ or ‘home based’. ‘Site based’ roles can include up to two days a week working from home whilst ‘home based’ roles are based at home four days a week. Of course, managers designate which category roles are in based on the needs of the service and the circumstances.
About The Organisation
Milton Keynes City Council is a large, modern and financially stable employer with around 2,500 people working across our eight areas. Together we provide local residents and businesses with a wide range of important round-the-clock services and aim to make our city a better place to live.
We work hard because of the demands placed on us, like protecting children from harm or preventing homelessness. However, working for the city is always rewarding and everyone has the opportunity to make a real difference.
We’re very proud of our diversity and are committed to having a workforce that reflects the community we serve. Whatever your background, you will be welcome here if you share our values of being dedicated, respectful and collaborative.
We offer great training and support and because of the size and scale of the organisation there are always new opportunities to explore when it’s time for a new role.
If you’d like to know more about how we do things and what matters to us, take a look at our short booklet What makes us Milton Keynes City Council.
