Website and telephone payments Sunday 19 May
Our website and telephone payment systems are unavailable between 9am and 2pm on Sunday 19 May. You will not be able to pay for any council services on our website or over the phone during this time.
North Yorkshire youth justice service is a multi-disciplinary team and our key objectives are to reduce youth crime, to protect the public from serious harm, and to safeguard the welfare of young people. Our staff support preventative and diversionary services to help vulnerable young people stay out of trouble, and for those who are in the criminal justice system, we work closely with them and their families to help them stop offending and to get their lives back on track.
For those with the right skills and motivation, a career in Youth Justice is both interesting and very rewarding.
The youth justice service comprises of expert staff employed from a range of service partners, supported by committed and skilled volunteers. It is therefore quite unlike most services that have a single employer, a single career structure, a single route for getting on to the ladder, getting trained and so on.
It is a true multi-agency team, with all these staff physically co-located.
This makes it seem fairly complicated compared with most services, but it’s also a great strength to have seconded and partnership staff from such a variety of backgrounds in addition to the Council:
If you want to work with young people in trouble with the law, you might want to consider it as part of a career in social work, youth work, substance misuse work, police, probation, health and so on.
The largest single employer is North Yorkshire County Council, but even these staff come from a wide variety of backgrounds:
Of course each employer has its own career structure and, its own professional qualifications.
Seconded and partnership staff may be recruited specially through general advertisement, giving people a chance to come directly into the youth justice service or they may be recruited internally from existing staff.
North Yorkshire youth justice service employs youth justice staff through ourselves including administrative staff and managers.
Administrative staff are crucial to our success and are considered full members of the team. It is vital that they understand the business we are in and how they contribute. We take great pride in the fact that a number of administrative staff have worked as volunteers in their own time in face to face contact with young people and some have gone on to become youth justice workers.
Administrative staff contribute to all areas of the youth justice service’s work but also have particular areas of responsibility where they can make a distinct contribution to the successful and smooth running of services.
youth justice service staff of one kind or another are the largest single group of staff.
Everyone is a specialist:
Seconded and partnership posts may be advertised internally within existing staff first, and/or advertised in whatever local or national journals etc. that employer normally uses.
The posts may be part of a larger advertisement amongst other jobs offered by that employer, and will therefore use that employer’s logos, house styles and so on. The fact that it is a youth justice service post may not be highly prominent and the youth justice service logo may not appear.
It will be clearly stated in the application pack whether a post requires a specific qualification – for any particular post there may be a range of qualifications from different professions that can be treated as equivalents.
The benchmark is usually qualifications in either social work or probation.
Partnership employers use their own qualification requirements in negotiation with the youth justice service. Pay and grading, codes and conditions are determined by the employer and not the youth justice service.
Youth justice service staff can take advantage of the national youth justice qualifications framework.
We have a number of trained practice educators and are able to offer work based placements, for example to social work students.
In all youth justice service posts you will need to demonstrate relevant experience and skills, from relevant paid and voluntary work.
For practitioner posts you will have to be able to work within a formal justice environment as well as have a sensitive understanding of the developmental needs of children and young people. You will need to be able to work within a specialised database as well as use standard software packages for producing letters, reports and so on. A good standard of formal English is needed for reports. You will need to work flexible hours.
You will need a satisfactory enhanced criminal records bureau check for most posts with the youth justice service and we apply the vetting and barring scheme. We can accept people with convictions. Generally we make individual judgements rather than having a rigid set of rules, considering whether someone is safe to work with children, whether they are likely to follow appropriate standards of conduct, etc.
You don’t have to have been a volunteer to get a job in the youth justice service – but it really can help you if you have been a consistent and committed volunteer who has started getting some real hands-on experience this way. We will take into account relevant experience from a range of settings, not just volunteering for the youth justice service.
The main career entry jobs into youth justice service work tend to be:
Most youth offending teams have a similar range of jobs, although the job titles vary.
We offer a wide range of volunteering opportunities in the North Yorkshire youth justice service.
To volunteer for youth justice service work in city of York start visit the volunteering with youth justice service page on their website.
For general information about volunteering and working in youth justice see the youth justice board pages of the ministry of justice website.
North Yorkshire youth justice service believes that only by achieving equal opportunities employment practices can we:
North Yorkshire youth justice service works with the equal opportunities and diversity arrangements of North Yorkshire County Council but also works to the equivalent standards and expectations of our partner agencies. Applications are especially welcomed from men who are under-represented in our service.
Remember that north Yorkshire youth justice service is not the only one! north Yorkshire youth justice service covers the large geographical area of north Yorkshire. You might also want to think about York youth offending team, which covers the city of York area.
There are 15 youth offending teams altogether in the Yorkshire & Humber region.
Different youth offending teams do use slightly different titles and their structures are not identical, for all sorts of reasons. A full national list is available on the youth justice board pages of the ministry of justice website, with the relevant contact detail.
Most youth offending teams have websites that can be found using a search engine.