Restorative Justice Practitioner

Role Responsibility

Can You Successfully Engage Adolescents?   
Do You Want to Work Flexibly?
 

Kent County Council are setting up a new and exciting Adolescent Response Team to enhance our services to adolescents and their families.  As part of this service, we are looking for a Restorative Justice Practitioner (KR07) to support the work of our Youth Justice Team. The service will provide non-case holding additional support to prevent adolescents from re/entering custodial settings, prevent multiple care placements and to reduce extra-familial and contextual risk.

We’re more interested in who you are, than in what you’ve studied. We welcome applicants with and without qualifications. If you can engage adolescents; manage conflict and understand how risks from peer groups and in the community can impact on young people, then one of our roles could be for you.

These roles will serve three main functions:

1. To contribute to the ongoing work of the Youth Justice team to prevent adolescents entering or re-entering the secure estate.
2. To provide non-case holding intensive 1:1 and group work intervention to adolescents open to Kent Youth Justice Service.
3. To contribute to managing contextual/extra-familial risks to adolescents.

Practitioners will be expected to work flexibly, including some weekends, early evenings, and in typical holiday periods.  Some of this work will be planned, with elements of weekend on-call (not overnight) demand, to meet the needs of the adolescent and the requirements of their Court Order.

Practitioners need to be skilled at engaging hard to reach adolescents who may struggle to manage the intensity of the oversight but are Court ordered to comply with the intervention.

These roles are county wide; we are recruiting to one RJ (KR07) FTE in South/East and one in North/West so travel and flexibility will be required.

We’re trialling this new service for 2 years and are looking for passionate, motivated, and skilled practitioners at a range of levels to join us during this exciting time.  We will consider secondment opportunities for the right candidates.

An Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check is needed but having a criminal record will not necessarily prevent you from working with us. We consider how long ago your offences were, your attitudes to offending and what you’ve learnt from your experiences. 

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. 

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

If you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be brought forward if/when a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.

Contact Details

Please contact Molly Gallagher at molly.gallagher@kent.gov.uk to obtain the job descriptions and person specifications for these posts, or to find out more. 

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.