Youth Justice Practitioner

East Riding of Yorkshire Council; Beverley; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

East Riding of Yorkshire Council is recruiting for a Youth Justice Practitioner on a 12-month fixed term contract. The role focuses on managing a caseload of young people subject to youth justice supervision, risk assessment, and delivering interventions to keep the community safe.

Regional and multi-agency collaboration is emphasised. The successful candidate will undertake assessments, develop outcome-focused plans, supervise those on community orders or cautions, and contribute to reports for

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and young people
• Ability to undertake high-quality assessments and reviews
• Able to devise outcome-focused intervention plans with supervision
• Strong communication and safeguarding skills

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of young people subject to youth justice supervision
• Build and maintain relationships with service users to support engagement
• Undertake high-quality assessments and reviews using structured tools
• Devise and implement intervention plans to reduce offending
• Supervise young people on community sentences or cautions
• Prepare reports for panels and other forums
• Communicate effectively within a multi-agency team
• Represent the Youth Justice Service in court, police stations and custodial settings
• Maintain accurate case records
• Undertake restorative justice activities with young people and victims

Skills

Caseload management

Assessment & planning

Multi-agency working

Court/official settings

Job description

The job itself

This is an exciting opportunity to join the ‘Outstanding’ Youth Justice Service as a Youth Justice Practitioner on a 12-month fixed term contract.The service received a maximum score in the HMIP Inspection in January 2026, with the report noting ‘excellent work to achieve positive change for children and to keep children and the community safe. Assessing, planning and delivery were consistently strong across all areas.’ ‘Work to keep children and communities safe was also exceptional, with practitioners recognising the factors that affected safety.’

We want to hear from people who are passionate to making a difference to the lives of others, can work in an enjoyable and fast paced environment and have the skills to ensure that children and young people are at the heart of service delivery.

Key responsibilities of a Youth Justice Practitioner include:

• Manage a caseload of young people who are subject to youth justice supervision, predominantly lower-level orders, enabling the service to fulfil its statutory obligations including the management of risks to young people and the public and the enforcement of court/out of court disposals.
• Build and maintain positive working relationships with service users to ensure their continued engagement with the support offered and their participation in their case assessment, planning and review process.
• Undertake high quality assessments and reviews for a range of lower order cases, using well-defined structured assessment tools (including assessment of the risk of re-offending and of causing harm to self or others), to inform decisions and plans regarding their support. These will be undertaken in accordance with defined procedures.
• Devise and implement (with supervision) outcome focused intervention plans that reduce the likelihood of offending or re-offending.
• Supervise young people undertaking a community sentence or youth caution, to ensure they comply with the terms of their sentence or caution and support them in mandated reparative activities. This may include Intensive Surveillance and Supervision, bail support, reparation, behaviour programmes and constructive activities.
• Prepare reports and submissions for panels and other forums, in accordance with well-defined local and national requirements and standards, so that the relevant information is available for decision-making.
• Communicate and share information effectively within a multi-agency team that includes relevant partner agencies, to enable a cohesive response to safeguarding and public protection issues that delivers the best outcomes for young people and victims.
• Represent the Youth Justice Service in designated formal settings such as court, police stations and custodial establishments, so that the Council’s legislative obligations are met.
• Maintain accurate case records in line with national and local policies and requirements, to ensure information is accessible and auditable.
• Undertake restorative justice activities with young people and victims to repair the harm caused to victims and to reduce the risk of further offending.

Why work for East Riding?

We really value our staff, and it is our fundamental belief that our staff are the most important asset in fulfilling our responsibility to provide a quality service to children, young people and their families.

Benefits of working within Youth Justice, include:

• Regular reflective supervision with a focus on your wellbeing, your development, and what is working well.

• Strong management support at all levels.

• A service wide commitment to celebrating best practice and practice strengths.
• A service wide commitment to promoting wellbeing and support.

Our Model of Practice Stronger Together: You can, I can, We can

We have created a bespoke practice model that reflects and connects our vision, our value base and our behaviour as one East Riding of Yorkshire approach to working with children, young people and their families, which is nurtured and grown from within East Riding of Yorkshire CYPSSS and owned by our workforce.

Our Stronger Together approach is strengths based, solution-focused, and relational recognising that the very best work with families takes place within the context of excellent, collaborative relationships.

Other important information

East Riding of Yorkshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and is pursuing equality of opportunity in employment.

These posts are subject to an enhanced DBS Check

This post is fixed term for 12 months.