YJS Engagement Support Apprentice

Coventry City Council; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative local authority is seeking a Youth Justice Engagement Support Apprentice to join their dynamic team. This role is pivotal in supporting children, young people, and families, ensuring their voices are central to decision-making. As part of a well-respected service, you will engage in consultative activities, contribute to quality assurance, and follow best practices in youth justice. This apprenticeship offers a unique opportunity to develop your skills in a supportive environment, with a commitment to diversity and inclusion at its core. If you're passionate about making a positive impact in your community, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in creating and delivering interventions for children and families.
• Strong communication skills and ability to manage time effectively.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of services for children, young people, and victims.
• Coordinate quality assurance activities across the Youth Justice Service.

Skills

Creating & delivering interventions

Using technology for analysis

Time management

Effective communication

Professional interaction skills

Education

Level 5 Youth Justice Practitioner Apprenticeship

Job description

We value diverse perspectives and experiences and are striving to create a workplace culture that is inclusive, accepting of all, and free from discrimination and bias. Coventry Youth Justice Service (YJS) is a fast-paced multi-agency team consisting of staff from the Local Authority, Police, Probation, Health, and Education. We are a well-respected service with a high-level performance background. Coventry YJS has recently been judged as ‘Outstanding’ by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation. We have a great team spirit evidenced by staff progression being supported through regular development opportunities, low staff turnover, and low sickness rates.

Our Values

In line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled, and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remains at the heart of everything we do.

1. Open and fair: We are fair, open, and transparent.
2. Nurture and develop: We help and encourage everyone to be their best and do their best.
3. Engage and empower: We talk and listen to others, working together as one.
4. Create and innovate: We embrace new ways of working to continuously improve.
5. Own and be accountable: We work together to deliver the best services for our residents.
6. Value and respect: We put diversity and inclusion at the heart of all we do.

What is the job role?

Join us as a Youth Justice Engagement Support Apprentice within the Service. As a new role within the Service, you will support the delivery of an effective and creative service for children, young people, their families, and victims of crime. To do this, you will:

1. Contribute to developing approaches to ensure children are at the centre of our decision-making through direct consultative and engagement activities with children and families.
2. Support and coordinate quality assurance activity across the Service.
3. Follow examples of national/international best practice, Youth Justice Board’s national standards, and findings from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation.

You will undertake the standard Level 5 Youth Justice Practitioner Apprenticeship. Further information for this apprenticeship can be found here.

This apprenticeship role is a fixed-term contract for 25 months in line with the length of the apprenticeship training. This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Guaranteed Interview Scheme

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:

1. Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
2. Are currently in care or have previously been in care
3. If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable.

Closing Date and Interview Dates

Closing date: 27 April 2025

Pre-interview and assessment date (via Microsoft Teams): 12 May 2025

Interview date(s) (Face-to-face): 23 May 2025

The pre-interview is a short session to give the candidates further details of the apprenticeship role and to help them understand what to expect from and how to prepare for the final interview. You will also complete a short diagnostic assessment to check the level of Maths and English that they are currently working at and identify any support they may require.

Support for Applicants

Did you know that there is support available to help you with your application? If you would like support in completing your application or have any questions about our recruitment and selection processes, help is available at The Job Shop. We would recommend that all applicants take advantage of this service in order to maximise the chances of being shortlisted.

Address: West Orchard Way, Coventry, CV1 1FY

Phone: [phone]

Email: [e-mail]

Website: http://www.coventry.gov.uk/jobshop

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for an individual who wants to make a positive difference and who has experience and skills/abilities that include:

1. Creating & delivering interventions to children/young people, their families, parents/carers, and/or victims of crime.
2. Using technology and systems to analyse and produce high-quality reports.
3. Time management skills, and the ability to prioritise your workload whilst dealing with a range of conflicting demands.
4. Effective communication skills; verbal, non-verbal, and written.
5. Confident and able to interact in a wide range of professional settings and with service users and their families/carers.
6. Ability to use professional interaction skills in a wide range of settings.
7. Ability to effectively interact with children and their families/carers.

You will be required to:

1. Work flexibly to meet the needs of children/young people, families & victims; this will mean some evening working.
2. Be involved in the effective delivery of the service, during and outside of office hours, including occasional Bank Holidays and weekends as required.
3. Complete the Level 5 Youth Justice Practitioner Apprenticeship.

If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our accessibility page to see how we can assist you.

This post is exempt from job share. The job is a fixed term for 25 months.

About Coventry

Coventry has a proud, innovative, and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change. We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant, and diverse. At Coventry, we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 5100 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together, and find better ways of doing things.

To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.

If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package - to find out more please visit here.