Job Introduction
Role Purpose
The Dorset Combined Youth Justice Service is looking to recruit a part time 22.5 hours per week, Restorative Justice Practitioner for a fixed period of 12 months. We are looking for a confident, empathic worker with good communication skills to engage and work directly with victims of crime. Their work will involve promoting and delivering restorative justice work to repair the harm caused by children offending and support victims to feel safe and confident in the community. Interviews for this post will be on 7th May 2025.
Main Responsibilities
Our ideal Candidate must have training, experience and knowledge in restorative practice.
The role of the restorative justice practitioner is to demonstrate effective communication skills to initiate contact with victims of crime and the ability to build positive relationships with them to support engagement in restorative work.
You will have the ability to work within a team, working alongside your colleagues to deliver effective restorative work. Working ‘with’ the victims and children who have committed the crimes to effectively facilitate restorative work and produce good outcomes for those all involved. The work will also involve having the skills to advocate on the behalf of victims when appropriate and working with other agencies to protect victims from harm.
The Ideal Candidate
The Dorset Combined Youth Justice Service is committed to diversifying its workforce and actively welcomes a diverse range of applicants.
You will join a multi-agency team of skilled and motivated professionals. Dorset Combined Youth Justice Service has offices in Dorchester and North Bournemouth, the successful candidate will need to hold a full driving licence and be willing to travel in your own car as and when required and be willing to work flexible hours, including non-office hours, the role also involves lone working in the community.
For an informal discussion about the post, please contact: Jodie Price (Practice Manager) 01202 127623 or Nicola Denny (Team Manager) 01202 128746
About BCP Council
BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people. Our area includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline. We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services. By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, word-class, prosperous and inclusive place for generations to come.
Our Benefits
We offer an excellent benefits package for further details see here
As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay structure which is to be applicable for all employees. It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right. We have been in a process of collective bargaining since 2019 and have positively worked forward to reach an agreed position with the unions for the new contractual offer. This has taken longer than we hoped and therefore we are having to consider all alternative avenues available to enable us to remove inequality in the organisation as a result of bringing together 3 councils.
We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation, and all colleagues joining us will be included in these changes. We want to reassure everyone that whichever route is taken to reach the new terms and conditions, we can honour continuous service and there will not be any job reduction as a result of the implementation of Pay and Reward. If you have any questions at all about this process, please feel free to raise this with the hiring manager.
DBS
BCP Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the community and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. Applicants to this post will be required to complete the appropriate level of Disclosure & Barring Service Check. Please refer to the Job Description or Role Profile for more details.
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