Restorative Justice Lead Practitioner
As a Lead Practitioner you will work with offenders and victims of crime and anti-social behaviour, to facilitate a process of communication between them through Restorative Justice (RJ). This will involve working collaboratively with a wide range of agencies including North Yorkshire Police, Probation Service, Crown Prosecution Service, HM Courts, HM Prisons, Schools and other voluntary sector agencies in the delivery of RJ in North Yorkshire.
About the post
Main responsibilities, would be to facilitate restorative justice conferences both direct and indirect to support victims and offenders in reaching an outcome agreement. Delivering hate crime, violent crime and anti-social behaviour awareness courses on a one to one basis to further support access to the restorative justice process. To support delivery of the restorative schools programme to equip young people to deliver low level interventions with their peers. To facilitate community conferencing working alongside partner agencies in order to coordinate restorative interventions to tackle an incident/series of incidents or ongoing anti-social/criminal behaviour that has affected individuals and community members. To work in a preventative way to reduce escalation, including crime, anti-social behaviour or complex neighbourhood disputes where multiple residents are involved.
We are looking for experience of restorative practice or complimentary skills / experience and multi-agency partnership working across the criminal justice sector.
Training, supervision and professional development opportunities will be provided.
Company pension scheme and paid leave entitlement 28 days per annum
North Yorkshire
37.5 Hours per week
£23,810/annum. On completion of 6 months probationary period increasing to £24,570/annum.
Submitting your application
Full role description and an application form (which must be completed to accompany an up to date CV) are available HERE
Closing Date: 6th June 2025 - 5pm
Interview Date: 24th June 2025 - Harrogate - with a start date as soon as possible.
Contact Name: Dave Pascoe
