Youth Offending Service Officer

About Us At Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be. We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can‑do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs.

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We offer induction to the service and the work required, monthly professional supervision and team meetings, an opportunity to be a part of a multi‑disciplinary service, and a strong training offer which could lead to gaining professionally recognised qualifications. This is an ideal opportunity to grow and develop your practice and contribute to positive outcomes for Hounslow’s children and young people.

You are an individual who has a proven record of working with children and young people, understands the challenges they may face, and is able to build positive relationships with children, their families and colleagues. You always hold children at the centre of your work, and will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the youth justice system, knowledge of trauma‑informed practice and contextual safeguarding.

You will be able to manage the conflicting demands of a busy caseload, can develop intervention plans, write reports for court and liaise with families and external agencies. You will be confident in advocating for the child in court and in professional meetings, a team player and will be committed to your own professional development.

You are ideally a qualified social worker, probation worker or Youth Justice professional, but we also want to hear from people with a professional or academic qualification in a discipline related to work with children, young people and/or the criminal justice system, and who would want to gain a social work qualification.

The Hounslow Youth Justice Service (YJS) has a duty to protect the public and to safeguard children from harm, and this role forms an integral part of meeting this duty. The Youth Justice Service is a multi‑disciplinary Team, which includes Social Workers, Probation Officers, Police Officers, Substance Mis‑Use Workers, and Health professionals and works closely with a wide range of other professionals, including the Courts.

The Service sits within the wider Children’s Specialist and Safeguarding Department.

The Team is based at Hounslow House, a modern office building in central Hounslow which is busy multi‑cultural community with good transport connections. There is an opportunity for office based and home working, dependent on the needs of the service. The Team is committed to hearing the voices of the children we work with and their families to develop and improve the service we offer.

You will have good communication skills and be able to work confidently with children, their parents/carers, professionals and providers.

You will understand the challenges affecting children and young people and how other factors such as peers or group offending can impact on this, along with positive factors that can support good outcomes for children.

You have the ability to engage with children, be able to work to timescales and work collaboratively with colleagues and wider partners. You will be able to write reports to a good standard, and professionally, and confidently, represent the service, sometimes in court.

Enhanced DBS.

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Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 9/02/2026.