Where You'll Work

• Kent - Various Locations, to be discussed at interview, United Kingdom ME14 1XQ

Training

• 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)

What You'll Learn

• 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-focussed 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.

Requirements

Essential Qualifications

• GCSE in English (grade 4 or above)

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.

After This Apprenticeship

• Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay.
• 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.

Ask a Question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

Kent County Council

Rose Field
rose.field@kent.gov.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000049305.