Children and Families Department
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Field Based Worker
Salary: £39,939 - £42,699
Working Hours: 37 Hours
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 24th August 2025
Interview Date(s): There will be two interviews, a Young Person Panel and the Adult Panel interview, provisionally arranged for Monday 22nd sept
The below link provides further information on the Young Person Panel:
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About the Role
Leicestershire Youth and Justice is a vibrant, experienced, multi-cultural team from a range of professional backgrounds on a journey towards excellence, that helps to promote a range of innovative approaches to working with children. We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, forward thinking qualified practitioner to work within our Youth and Justice Service as a Youth Justice Case Manager.
We are a Service of around 100 workers, committed to achieving the best outcomes for our children and young people through advocacy and empowerment. We deliver services with the young person at the centre and ensure that their voices are integral to all that we do. We develop our services with our young people, and we are part of the Children and Families Department at Leicestershire County Council, rated “Outstanding” by Ofsted.
As a Case Manager you will form meaningful relationships with children and be part of their journey in making changes towards a positive and fulfilling future. The successful candidate will provide and deliver child first approaches to our most complex and high-risk children who currently engage in offending behaviour. There will be opportunities to learn and develop your practice around Court, as well as coordinating multi agency approaches in supporting children to deter them from offending and re-offending.
For internal applicants, this could be an exciting secondment opportunity for anyone considering a change of direction and we would willingly support this arrangement, which must be agreed by your line manager ahead of your application.
If you are making a transition into Youth Justice, we will provide you with the full training required to make this move successfully. We support and empower our staff to be the best that they can be.
What we offer:
• Mileage paid at 45p per mile.
• Opportunities to progress within a large public sector organisation.
• DBS check paid for by us.
• Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Generous annual leave entitlement.
• Access to staff wellbeing and counselling service.
• Access to an employee discount scheme, providing a whole host of retail discount including your supermarket weekly shop and gym membership!
• Work for an organisation which 95% of our staff say is a good employer.
You can find out more about us on Instagram, search “Leicestershire Youth”.
We look forward to welcoming you into the Youth and Justice Service!
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.
About You
To apply for this post, you must respond to and evidence the following essential criteria within your personal statement. This should be no more than 1,000 words.
- Professional qualification in Social Work, Probation, Education, Youth and Community Work, or a relevant health specialism
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to job role
- Significant experience of working with children or adults at risk of offending and re-offending
- Experience of working in the Criminal Justice System
- Knowledge of Youth Justice and safeguarding legislation and the operation of the Criminal Justice System
- Understanding of neurological development and an awareness of the differing needs of children and young people
- Knowledge of relevant behavioural change practice to bring about change in anti-social behaviour and offending behaviour
Recruitment Drop in Sessions
These sessions provide applicants opportunity to find out more about the role and meet the manager . Applicants who attend, are often more successful in being invited to interview.
We are holding a recruitment drop-in session, online Monday 18th August 5-7pm
If you would like to book a slot please contact
Laura Mullen
Email – [email protected]
Mobile -07926064831
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Laura Mullen Youth Justice Team Manager
Telephone: 07926064831
Email [email protected]
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support.
By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.
About Leicestershire County Council
Leicestershire County Council is a Disability Confident, Menopause Friendly, Mindful Employer, Fostering Friendly, Forces Friendly, and Cycle Friendly organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.
Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.
For further information on what it’s like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:
Our Recruitment Process
Our Organisational Values
Our Employee Benefits
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