Youth Justice Senior Practitioner

Overview

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Job Description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall Glenfield LE3 8RA

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: £43.860 -£47.829 Plus market premium

Working Hours: 37 hours Per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 3rd November 2025

Interview Date(s): TBC

About the Role

Leicestershire Youth and Justice is a vibrant, experienced, multi-cultural team from a range of professional backgrounds on a journey towards excellence, that helps to promote a range of innovative approaches to working with children. We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, forward thinking qualified to work within our Youth and Justice Service as a Youth Justice senior practitioner.

We are a Service of around 100 workers, committed to achieving the best outcomes for our children and young people through advocacy and empowerment. We deliver services with the young person at the centre and ensure that their voices are integral to all that we do. We develop our services with our young people, and we are part of the Children and Families Department at Leicestershire County Council, rated \”Outstanding\” by Ofsted.

As a senior practitioner, you will lead and manage a targeted youth justice project focused on children and young people assessed as posing a high risk of harm to others, themselves, or at risk of reoffending. The role ensures robust public protection through strategic oversight, operational delivery, and multi-agency coordination.

You will also hold a small but complex caseload to maintain direct practice expertise and model best practice in safeguarding and risk management. Alongside, you will be completing project work on cross-cutting themes pertinent to the needs of the children involved with youth justice services.

The purpose of this role is to ensure that children\’s needs are met and that victims and the public are protected and support the workforce in ensuring that high quality services are delivered to all, in line with good practice and standards expected by His Majesty\’s Inspectorate of Probation (HMIP).

What we offer:

• Mileage paid at 45p per mile.
• Opportunities to progress within a large public sector organisation.
• DBS check paid for by us.
• Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Generous annual leave entitlement.
• Access to staff wellbeing and counselling service.
• Access to an employee discount scheme, providing a whole host of retail discounts, including your supermarket weekly shop and gym membership!
• Work for an organisation which 95% of our staff say is a good employer.

You can find out more about us on Instagram, search \”Leicestershire Youth\”.

We look forward to welcoming you into the Youth and Justice Service!

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.

About You

To apply for this post, you must respond to and provide evidence of the following essential criteria within your personal statement. This should be no more than 1,000 words; any words over will be discounted. CVs are not accepted.

• Relevant Qualification and Documentation – You must have a degree in Social Work, Probation or Youth Work. Degrees in Police, Health or Education must be directly linked to the work of Youth Justice and have a substantial core-component of on the work training/placements. If you are a Social Worker, you must be registered with Social Work England. All applicants must have a valid driving license for the UK and have access to a vehicle.
• Substantial Direct Experience with High-Risk Children: You can demonstrate hands-on experience working with children, young people and/or adults assessed as high risk of harm or reoffending, especially in youth justice or probation settings.
• Expertise in Risk Assessment and Management: You are skilled in conducting rigorous risk assessments and developing robust risk management plans for complex cases, including serious violence, exploitation, and harmful sexual behaviour.
• Ability to Deliver Effective and Evaluate Interventions: You have a proven track record of delivering direct interventions that reduce risk and reoffending, using evidence-based approaches and engaging children, young people and/or adults and measure the impact they have had on recipients.
• Multi-Agency Planning, Collaboration and Accountability: You can demonstrate experience working collaboratively with partners through Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements to coordinate interventions, manage risk and safeguard children and/or adults and victims. You can evidence where you have challenged decisions made by other partners.
• Victim-Centered Practice: You can evidence that victims are at the forefront of risk management and intervention plans, prioritising their protection and needs throughout all aspects of casework using the principles of Restorative Justice.
• Leading a Project or Team: You can demonstrate the ability to collaborate effectively and lead initiatives, projects or manage a team that supports practice innovation and improves outcomes for children, adults, and victims

Recruitment Drop-in Sessions

These sessions provide applicants opportunity to find out more about the role and meet the manager . Applicants who attend, are often more successful in being invited to interview.

We are holding a recruitment drop-in session, online Monday 27thOctober 5.30-6.30pm

If you would like to book a slot, please contact

Laura Mullen

Email – Laura.Mullen@leics.gov.uk

Mobile -07926064831

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual\’s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Laura Mullen Youth Justice Team Manager

Telephone: 07926064831

Email laura.mullen@leics.gov.uk

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the \’About You\’ section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the \’About You\’ section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support.

By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.

About Us

About Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is a Disability Confident, Menopause Friendly, Mindful Employer, Fostering Friendly, Forces Friendly, and Cycle Friendly organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.

Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.

For further information on what it\’s like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:

Our Recruitment Process
Our Organisational Values
Our Employee Benefits
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