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Vacancy: Restorative Justice Lead Practitioner Vacancy - North Yorkshire

Are you a good listener, non- judgemental, confident in speaking with groups of people and able to work on your own initiative with experience or knowledge of the criminal justice system?

If so, we would welcome your application for this role.

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.

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.

North Yorkshire Lead Practitioner

• 37.5 Hrs a week

• Salary £23,810/annum (On completion of 6 months probationary period increasing to £24,570/annum)

Application information

Full role description and an application form (which must be completed to accompany an up to date CV) are available here or from:  DavePascoe@restorativesolutions.org.uk  and any queries should be addressed to him at the same email address.

Closing date for applications is: 5pm on 6^th June 2025

Interviews will be held in Harrogate on 24^th June 2025 with a start date as soon as possible.

Application Form Role Description