Youth Justice Practice Improvement & Development Officer - Policy and Partnership

Role Responsibility

Do you want to make a genuine, positive difference to young people and the victims of youth crime? At Kent Youth Justice we are looking for somebody to become a key member of our practice improvement team.  Working alongside colleagues to improve the services we deliver; you will hold lead responsibility for ensuring that our policies and partnerships positively impact our service delivery and make a meaningful difference to the outcomes for the children and young people we work with.  

We are more interested in who you are, than in what you have studied. If you can support, guide and challenge, practitioners, and managers to ensure that practice is of the highest standard then this may be the role for you.

You will ensure that policy, strategy, and standards for young people and victims are of the highest quality and that practice improvement is informed by the voices of young people and victims. You will contribute to and implement an improvement plan with a clear timeline for coordinated activity to ensure that Kent Youth Justice can evidence excellence under scrutiny by internal and external inspection processes. You will ensure that we are appraised of developments within the youth justice arena so that Kent Youth Justice are up to date and are working in the most effective, evidence-based way to support young people and victims.

If this sounds like a role for you, please read the Job Description and Person Specification and demonstrate in your application that you can fulfil the requirements of this role.

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 how you have 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.

Interviews are currently scheduled for Wednesday 28^th April.

Contact Details

If you would like to have an informal discussion about the post, please contact Paula Desai on 03000 410535 or 07919 213046 

About the Company

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.