Overview
Salary: £23556 – £23556
Shift hours: 37
Join us as a Youth Justice Engagement Support Apprentice within the Service.
As a new role within the Service, you will support the delivery of an effective and creative service for children, young people, their families, and victims of crime. To do this, you will:
- Contribute to developing approaches to ensure children are at the centre of our decision making through direct consultative and engagement activities with children and families
- Support and coordinate quality assurance activity across the Service
- Follow examples of national/international best practice, Youth Justice Board’s national standards and findings from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation
You will undertake the standard Level 5 Youth Justice Practitioner Apprenticeship. Further information for this apprenticeship can be found on: https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/st0878-v1-0
This apprenticeship role is a fixed term contract for 25 Months in line with the length of the apprenticeship training.
This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
Guaranteed Interview Scheme – As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you’ll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled ‘Coventry City Council Application Process’. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable.
Closing date: 27 April 2025
Pre-interview and assessment date (via Microsoft Teams): 12 May 2025
Interview date(s) (Face-to-face): 23 May 2025
The pre-interview is a short session to give the candidates further details of the apprenticeship role and to help them understand what to expect from and how to prepare for the final interview. You will also complete a short diagnostic assessment to check the level of Maths and English that they are currently working at and identify any support they may require.
Did you know that there is support available to help you with your application?
If you would like support in completing your application or have any questions about our recruitment and selection processes, help is available at The Job Shop.
We would recommend that all applicants take advantage of this service in order to maximise the chances of being shortlisted.
Address: West Orchard Way, Coventry, CV1 1FY
Phone: 024 7678 5740
Email: jobshop@coventry.gov.uk
Website: http://www.coventry.gov.uk/jobshop
We are looking for an individual who wants to make a positive difference and who has experience and skills/abilities that include:
- Creating & delivering interventions to children/young people, their families, parents/carers and/or victims of crime.
- Using technology and systems to analyse and produce high quality reports.
- Time management skills, and the ability to prioritise your workload whilst dealing with a range of conflicting demands.
- Effective communication skills; verbal, non-verbal and written.
- Confident and able to interact in a wide range of professional settings and with service users and their families/carers.
- Ability to use professional interaction skills in a wide range of settings.
- Ability to effectively interact with children and their families/carers.
You will be required to:
- Work flexibly to meet the needs of children/young people, families & victims this will mean some evening working.
- To be involved in the effective delivery of the service, during and outside of office hours, including occasional Bank Holidays and weekends as required.
- Complete the Level 5 Youth Justice Practitioner Apprenticeship
If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our accessibility page to see how we can assist you.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme – As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you’ll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled ‘Coventry City Council Application Process’. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable.
Interview date(s):
Pre-interviews will be held on Monday 12th May 2025.
Interviews will be held on the Friday 23rd May 2025.
This post is exempt from job share. The job is a fixed term for 25 months.
Reference: coventrycc/TP/17236/10924
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
