Senior Practitioner (Youth Justice Service)

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: PO5
Salary: £50,574 – £53,607 per annum
Contract Type: 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract (Maternity Cover) – 36 Hours per week
Closing Date: Sunday 1st June 2025
Interview Date: Week commencing 9th June 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture. Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Service

Haringey Youth Justice Service remains part of the Children and Young People’s Directorate located within the Early Help, Prevention and SEND Division. We are committed to work in a systemic way to prevent children and young people from offending and reoffending, to ensure that custody is the last option, and that children and young people are safe, secure and provided with supportive interventions that address the causes of offending behaviour.
This is an exciting time to come and join us as a Senior Practitioner in the Youth Justice Service, you will be joining a service that has:
• Achieved the ‘Youth Justice SEND Quality Lead Status’ redesignation with a Child First Commendation.
• A number of Innovation projects
• Is a recognised licence centre for AQA’s.

About the Role

Do you have the ambition and drive to join the team in taking Haringey Youth Justice Service forward, providing effective interventions that produce positive outcomes for children, families and communities. We are seeking a qualified worker with a track record of performing to a high standard in preventing offending and reoffending. A recognized social work or criminal justice qualification i.e. Diploma, degree or master’s in social work with current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a registered social worker, or relevant professional qualification in, Probation, Teaching or Youth work and relevant experience in Youth Justice Leadership. Youth Justice Service Website: https://www.haringey.gov.uk/children-young-people-families/early-help-haringey/youth-justice-service-yjs 

About You

The ideal candidate will have some experience of managing within the Youth Justice Service and must hold a relevant qualification of social work and or criminal justice. The candidate must have a deep knowledge and understanding of youth justice and children’s legislation and the ability to build strong working relationships with key partners and stakeholders. The candidate will need to be a resilient and authoritative manager who places children and young people and their welfare at the heart of their practice. The candidate will oversee a team that manages complex cases, planning intervention and support in a timely manner and, always, making sure that children and young people’s voices are heard, positively influence practice, and recorded consistently. This post will primarily lead on court work and group work initiatives. In addition, there is a requirement for the post holder to case manage a small complex caseload (Post Court). To contribute to the management of the multi-disciplinary youth justice service in order to meet the Youth Justice Strategic Priorities over the next three years:
• Priority 1: Child First; For the YJSPB and YJS to continue our commitment to child first approach which should be incorporated in all aspects of service delivery, governance and quality assurance.
• Priority 2: Restorative Justice; Increase the number of victims that engage in Restorative Justice processes and improve their outcomes.
• Priority 3: YJS Health Offer; To increase the uptake of the health offer and improve health outcomes, particularly in relation to EMH, SLT and substance misuse using trauma informed approaches.
• Priority 4: Disproportionality; Increase the focus of disproportionality within the context of remands/ sentenced into custody, education, health and stop and search. •
Priority 5: Children in Care; To improve entry to ETE, Health and Wellbeing outcomes for those children in care, CP, CIN and SEND cohort.
• Priority 6: Serious Youth Violence; Strengthen and expand our evidence-based approaches to reduce levels of Serious Youth Violence in particular Robbery and Knife crime.
• Priority 7: Prevention and Diversion; Increase the number of children and families supported by our prevention offer

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts. Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role please ensure that you do so as soon as possible. Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may end be diverted through to junk email folders. Please continue to check these through the application process. If you have any questions about the status of you application please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk