Youth Justice Case Responsible Officer
Gloucester
This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
- Job Title: Youth Justice Case Responsible Officer
- Job Location: The Vibe
- Salary: £37,280 - £40,777 per annum
- Hours per Week: 37.00
- Contract Type: Fixed Term
- Duration: 12 months
- Closing Date: 12/10/2025
- Job Requisition Number: 12637
- This post is open to job share
We are currently recruting for 2 Youth Justice Worker to join our Gloucestershire Youth Justice team on a fixed term contract basis.
About us
For all your hard work, you will receive the following:
- £37,280 - £40,777 per annum subject to experience
- flexible and agile working opportunities
- 25.5 days annual leave pro rata
- family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
- supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
- Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
- an in-house Occupational Health service
- employee discount scheme
- cycle to work scheme
- links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
- career development and qualification opportunities
Right child, right support, right time, every time
In our recent inspection in June 2025, our Children’s Services have been officially judged as ‘Good’ with ‘Outstanding’ elements. Ofsted also said ‘Leaders have set out a clear vision for delivering success for children, by modelling values and creating a culture where the workforce, children and families feel valued and heard; risk is managed confidently with bottom lines clearly set out.’This marks an important step in our journey to improve outcomes for our children and young people, and we remain focused on our mission: to continue building on this success and ensure that every child and young person in our county has the opportunity to thrive. Gloucestershire offers a range of opportunities to develop your career, supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer, a developing systemic practice methodology, an ambitious leadership team and an award-winning workforce.We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice. If you would like to be part of an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive, then consider a role with GCC.
About our teams
At Gloucestershire YJS, we believe every child deserves the opportunity to thrive. Our vision is to build a county where children on the edge of or within the youth justice system receive the right support at the right time—without stigma—so they can grow up healthy, resilient, and connected to nurturing communities where they can reach their potential. We want a youth justice system that is fair and inclusive, reduces social disadvantage, and ensures that victims of crime, and the communities of Gloucestershire feel supported and safe.
As a multi-disciplinary service, the YJS endeavours to deliver high-quality support to children through the operationalisation of the ‘Child First’ framework’, one that recognises each child’s stories, needs and unique strengths, and provides interventions that are constructive, future-focused, empowering children to move forward with a positive identity.
About you
Working within a challenging youth justice landscape, we’re looking for resilient, skilled, and compassionate professionals who are committed to making a real difference You will be joining an authority with a strong set of values that underpin the work we do: Accountability, Empowerment, Excellence, Integrity and Respect.
As a Youth Justice Worker, you will play a vital role in supporting children and families through complex challenges. You’ll work collaboratively with professionals across health, education, police, and social care to deliver tailored interventions that reduce offending and promote positive identity development. You will ensure that we keep children at the heart of our assessments, interventions and decision making so that they, and their families, receive coordinated and appropriate support in order to create safer communities with fewer victims.
This will involve:
- Managing a caseload of children involved in the youth justice system, often facing multiple and complex needs, in accordance with national and local standards.
- Conducting assessments using Youth Justice Board (YJB) approved tools to understand offending, risk, safety, and wellbeing; taking necessary measures to ensure that welfare needs are dealt with effectively and public protection considerations are appropriately managed.
- Ensuring that victims’ voices are considered and their views reflected in restorative approaches with children and families.
- Collaborating with children and families to create bespoke, evidence-based, intervention plans to address all areas of need, delivering direct work and regularly reviewing plans and interventions to ensure their suitability and effectiveness.
- Attendance at Youth Magistrates and Crown Court, preparing and presenting verbal and written reports to support bail and sentence planning.
- Support children in custody and facilitate effective resettlement into the community
The ideal applicant will have: significant experience of working directly with vulnerable children, young people and families, a strong understanding of the complex issues that affect children and in the youth justice system, knowledge of trauma-informed practice and restorative approaches, experience of multi-agency working and collaborative planning.
To be successful for the post we also need you to have:
- Graduate or equivalent professional qualification (Social Care, Education, Youth Work, Criminal Justice, Health)
- A full driving licence and willingness to drive
- DBS clearance
If you would like to discuss this role further please contact:
sarah.penny@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Please note we may close the advert a week early depending on the amount of applications we recieve.
Additional Information
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This position is subject to a DBS check.
Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.