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During the apprenticeship, you will receive training, coaching, and mentoring. You will complete workshops, online learning and development activities, and be supported by your Manager, colleagues, and apprenticeship provider, UNITAS.
Please note that due to the nature of this role, applicants must be aged 18 or over.
Wage:
£26,956 a year (Salary Band £26,956 - £27,765 per annum)
Training Course:
Youth justice practitioner (level 5)
Hours:
Flexibility, including willingness to travel across Kent and work occasional evenings/weekends where required. 37 hours a week
Start Date:
Tuesday 20 October 2026
Duration:
2 years 1 month
Positions Available:
8
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What You'll Do at Work
- Work towards being skilled to deliver trauma-informed child-first interventions to prevent and reduce offending.
- Be supported to write quality and analytical assessments and reports.
- Develop the knowledge and gain experience in keeping accurate timely records utilizing relevant case management systems.
- Learn how to work collaboratively with partners internally and externally, sharing appropriate information and working in partnership to support children and their families.
- Participate in multi-agency forums and develop the knowledge to work effectively with other professionals.
- Liaise with children to identify and report back to the service, what is working well and how we can improve our service delivery.
- Motivate and inspire children to achieve their potential by encouraging their attendance and inclusion in both 1-1 and group activities, services, and initiatives.
- Learn about, and champion restorative approaches, including supporting the delivery of reparation activities.
- Learn how to, and gain experience in Supporting children to be involved in service design and development, including the recruitment of Youth Justice staff.
- Gain experience in working collaboratively with the Victim Voice service to ensure the victim’s perspective is actively heard, clearly understood, and meaningfully considered throughout the assessment, planning, and delivery of interventions with the child.
Where You'll Work
Kent - Various Locations, to be discussed at interview, United Kingdom ME14 1XQ
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training Provider
UNITAS
Training Course
Youth justice practitioner (level 5)
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What You'll Learn
Course Contents
- Communicate effectively face to face and in writing (including digitally) with children who encounter the youth justice system.
- Identify the factors that may lead to offending and anti-social behaviour and the methods for promoting desistance, and use these to plan individually tailored interventions.
- Promote the physical, emotional and mental health and wellbeing of children in the youth justice system by recognizing and building on strengths, identifying need, and taking action to protect children where necessary.
- Use a range of engagement skills to promote trust, including clarification of role, purpose of intervention, and boundaries of authority.
- Develop relationships that are collaborative, motivating, and child-centred using a range of strategies to engage young people and families (e.g., motivational interviewing, solution-focused methods, participatory practice, pro-social modelling, and problem solving).
- Make effective use of assessment and planning tools designed for use in youth justice settings to inform decision making.
- Develop, implement, and monitor plans which reflect risks and needs, and build on positive human and social capital to promote desistance.
- Select interventions and approaches to working with young people based on the best available evidence about their effectiveness in promoting desistance from offending.
- Broker access to sources of human and social capital appropriate to the needs of children in the youth justice system.
- Be an effective social advocate for children and their families.
- Share and safeguard information about children and their families in line with data protection law.
- Identify, assess, and meet the needs of children and young people where there are safeguarding concerns.
- Reflect on practice within evidence-based frameworks in order to continuously improve outcomes for children in the youth justice system.
- Identify any barriers to children’s effective engagement with youth justice interventions and take steps to remove or mitigate these.
- Actively protect the rights of children, challenge disproportionality, and promote equality of opportunity.
- Keep accurate and timely records of all interactions relevant to the assessment, planning, implementation, and review cycle.
Training Schedule
This training schedule has not been finalized. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.
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Essential Qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade 4 or above)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
- Non-judgemental
- Patience
Other Requirements
- This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
- This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.
About Kent County Council
Kent County Council is a county council that governs most of the county of Kent in England. It is the upper tier of elected local government. Below are 12 district councils and around 300 town and parish councils. The county council has 81 elected councillors. The chief executive and chief officers are responsible for the day-to-day running of the council.
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
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This apprenticeship offers clear development opportunities, with progression through defined learning stages and corresponding salary progression as knowledge, skills, and competencies are achieved. Following successful completion of the apprenticeship, candidates will be eligible to apply for a Youth Justice Practitioner role.
Please note that due to the nature of this role, applicants must be aged 18 or over, and that completion of the apprenticeship does not guarantee a permanent post within the service.
Contact Information
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
- Kent County Council
- Rose Field
- Email: rose.field@kent.gov.uk
Reference Code
VAC2000049305
Closes in 30 days (Sunday 20 September 2026)
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