YJS Education Officer

Job Introduction

Role Purpose

The Dorset Combined Youth Justice Service (YJS) is looking to recruit a full time Education Officer to join our stable and supportive team. The ethos of the team is "child first" and all staff have been trained in trauma informed practice and working restoratively.

Main Responsibilities

The role of the Education Officer is to support, challenge, monitor, assess and negotiate the suitability and quality of educational provision for children in the Youth Justice Service.  The Education Officer will promote a culture of high aspiration that allows children to achieve their education potential.

The Ideal Candidate

You will be a qualified teacher or have other post-graduate education qualifications or will have a degree in a related field with equivalent experience. You will have experience of working in a school or educational setting and will have knowledge of the needs of children in the Youth Justice System.  

The ideal candidate will have experience of working with vulnerable children and be able to build positive working relationships with them.  You will work alongside your colleagues to provide specialist advice and consultation regarding the educational provision for children working with our service.

This role will require you to have the ability to develop and maintain effective, collaborative, and joint working relationships with a broad range of professionals to ensure obligations are being met and to drive high aspiration and positive outcomes for children, having regard for safeguarding and safety to others. 

The Dorset Combined Youth Justice Service is a multi-disciplinary team of skilled and motivated professionals. We are committed to diversifying our workforce and actively welcome a diverse range of applicants. We are a county wide service, and this role covers the whole of Dorset, you will be based in one of our offices in either Dorchester or North Bournemouth.

For an informal discussion about the post, please contact: David Webb (Head of Service) 01202 794321 or Nicola Denny (Team Manager) 01202 128746

About BCP Council

Dorset is a county in southwest England. Dorset Combined Youth Justice Service (DCYJS) was formed in 2015 and works across two local authorities, Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole (BCP) and Dorset., BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people.  BCP includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline while Dorset comprises a mainly rural area with market towns and a larger urban area in Weymouth and Portland. Dorset Council has a diverse population of about 380,000. By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, world-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.