Norfolk Youth Justice Team Volunteers

Norfolk Youth Offending Team (NYOT); England; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A local youth support organization in England is seeking compassionate volunteers to work with young people involved in offending behavior. This role involves engaging with young people and their families to support accountability and positive change. Volunteers will assist in community panel meetings and have mentorship opportunities. The organization values inclusiveness and provides ongoing training and supervision. This volunteer role requires a time commitment of 20 hours and involves background checks.

Qualifications

• Passion for working with young people and their families.
• Commitment to preventing further offending.
• Ability to engage effectively with young individuals.

Responsibilities

• Meet young people and their guardians to address offending behavior.
• Support young individuals to repair harm and develop moving forward plans.
• Train to mentor young individuals, providing positive guidance.

Skills

Listening skills

Compassion

Inclusiveness

Calm demeanor

Job description

Role

Are you aged 18 or over? Are you inclusive, compassionate and calm? Are you able to engage with young people? Do you have excellent listening skills? Do you live or work in Norfolk? You could be just the person we’re looking for.

Community panel members

With support from staff, Community Panel Volunteers meet young people and their parents/carers to support young people to take responsibility for their offending behaviour and identify ways to move forward. At the panel meeting, members support the young person and others present to talk about the offence and its impact, and draw up a programme that will enable the young person to repair some of the harm caused and address any factors in their life that may lead to them committing other offences.

Mentors

There are opportunities to train to become a mentor to young people working with the Youth Offending Team. Mentors work on a one-to-one basis with young people, providing them with a positive role model and to be there and offer encouragement to succeed.

Restorative justice

There are opportunities for members of the community to work restoratively with young people, their families and others who have experienced harm.

Becoming a volunteer

The selection processes are carefully designed to focus on assessing people’s potential rather than on qualifications and experience. They are looking for people with a commitment to working with young people and their parents / carers to prevent further offending and to support those affected deal with the impact of the offence. All volunteers would need to provide references and undertake enhanced DBS checks before starting the role. Training and ongoing supervision will be given throughout.

Time commitment

This role requires 20 hours, which can provide many useful new skills (which are helpful professionally and personally) and has much positive feedback. However, due to the nature of this training package, we recruit and train in cohorts and often there can be significant amount of time between cohorts (usually around 6 months but this can sometime be longer).

About the organisation

Norfolk Youth Offending Team (NYOT) is a multi‑agency partnership team whose aim is to prevent children and young people from offending and to help them restore the damage caused to their victims. They aspire to make Norfolk an even safer place to live and help young people achieve their full potential in life. They supervise and support young people aged 10 to 18 years who have committed offences and have received a Youth Caution, Youth Conditional Caution or an order from the Court. They also offer prevention work with young people aged 8 to 17 years who have not yet offended, but who are at risk of offending or becoming involved in anti‑social behaviour.

How to apply

If you are interested in this role and would like to apply or would like more information, contact the Volunteer Hub at Merchants’ Place – E: [e-mail] T: 01263 519454

Alternatively, you can complete an online registration form and your details will be sent to us directly. A link for the form can be found on our Volunteer Hub page on our website.