Victim & Restorative Justice Worker

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This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Location:
  
  The Vibe
• Contract Type:
  Permanent
• Closing Date: 08/02/2026
• Job Requisition Number: 13335
• This post is open to job share

We are currently recruiting for Victim & Restorative Justice Worker to join our Youth Justice Service team on a permanent basis.

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• between £37,280 - £40,777 per annum subject to experience
• flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
• family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
• supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
• an in-house Occupational Health service
• cycle to work scheme
• links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
• career development and qualification opportunities
• access to our Social Work Academy

In our recent inspection in June 2025, our Children’s Services have been officially judged as‘
Good
' with ‘
Outstanding elements.

Ofsted also said ‘Leaders have set out a clear vision for delivering success for children, by modelling values and creating a culture where the workforce, children and families feel valued and heard; risk is managed confidently with bottom lines clearly set out.’

This marks an important step in our journey to improve outcomes for our children and young people, and we remain focused on our mission: to continue building on this success and ensure that every child and young person in our county has the opportunity to thrive.

Gloucestershire offers a range of opportunities to develop your career, supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer, a developing systemic practice methodology, an ambitious leadership team and an award-winning workforce.

We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic practice. If you would like to be part of an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive, then consider a role with GCC.

Gloucestershire Youth Justice Service (YJS) are looking for a compassionate, motivated and skilled Victim & Restorative Justice Worker to join our multi‑disciplinary team. This is a unique opportunity to support victims of youth crime, champion their voices, and deliver restorative interventions that help repair harm and enable children to take positive steps forward. We want a youth justice system that is fair and inclusive, reduces social disadvantage, and ensures that victims of crime, and the communities of Gloucestershire feel supported and safe.

As a multi-disciplinary service, the YJS endeavours to deliver high-quality support to children and victims through the operationalisation of the ‘Child First’ framework’, one that recognises each child’s stories, needs and unique strengths, and provides interventions that are constructive, future-focused, empowering children to move forward with a positive identity. If you are passionate about supporting victims, committed to trauma‑informed practice, and driven to help build safer communities with fewer victims, we would love to hear from you.

As a Victim & Restorative Justice Worker, you will:

• Provide timely, trauma‑informed, person‑centred support to victims of youth crime.
• Assess risk, needs and suitability for restorative justice interventions.
• Deliver a wide range of restorative approaches including conferencing, mediation, indirect reparation and community‑based solutions.
• Promote and advocate for the voice and rights of victims throughout the youth justice process, including contributing to Pre‑Sentence Reports.
• Offer victims clear, accessible pathways to participate in criminal justice…