Restorative Youth Work Practitioner

ASPIRE stands for Adolescent Support in Prevention, Inclusion and Restorative Engagement. The team sits within the Specialist Adolescent Service as part of the Family and Adolescents Directorate. The Service acts as the statutory Youth Justice Service and has a key role to play in diverting children away from the youth justice system; helping prevent offending and re-offending; reducing  the use of custody; contributing to multi-agency public protection and safeguarding, and adopting  Signs of Safety, trauma-informed, identity development and whole family approaches to youth justice. Within the service we have the following vision: ‘We take a child first, offender second approach and always seek to work in partnership with children and families to build resilience and sustain positive change’.This role will lead on delivering 1:1 work with young people that have been a victim of peer on peer violence or bullying to reduce the likelihood of entering the cycle of crime.You will manage and facilitate restorative work with victims and those children who offend in accordance with the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime ensuring the work with victims is high quality, individualised and responsive driving positive outcomes and safety for victims.If you want to know more about the role please email Shakira Ashmeil, ASPIRE Team Leader on Shakira.Ashmeil@achievingforchildren.org.uk