The knowledge, skills, values, attitudes and attributes needed to be a youth officer.
A youth offending officer needs a range of different skills,
Values, qualities, attributes and a wide range of knowledge to become a great
youth offending officer.
According to the national careers centre the skills, knowledge, values, attributes and qualities needed for a youth offending officer are, A genuine interest in helping people, patience, empathy and a non-judgmental attitude, excellent communication and 'people' skills, a flexible and adaptable approach, the ability to stay calm under pressure and handle challenging behaviour, Respecting confidentiality, being confident to work as an individual but also having the personality to be heard and be able to get your point across within a group, having good organisational skills, having effective time management , knowledge of relevant criminal justice and childcare legislation and the ability to work with difficult or disadvantaged young people and families.
The knowledge needed to become a youth offending officer involves a great deal of training, qualifications and voluntary work.
“Many youth offending teams will ask for qualifications in social work or probation, although in some YOTs you may be able start as a YOT support worker without these, as long as you have gained plenty of relevant experience through volunteering.
In many youth offending services, YOT support workers will work with low and medium risk offenders, while social work-qualified and experienced workers work with higher-risk cases.
The training and voluntary work available to become a youth offending officer are endless but the most recommend types were, “A series of short online courses at an introductory level, Professional Certificate in Effective Practice (Youth Justice) run by the Open University, aimed at both new and experienced youth justice workers Foundation Degree in Youth Justice run by the Open University, aimed at current youth justice employees and volunteers.”
The values needed to become a youth offending worker. Youth work is underpinned by a clear set of values. These include young people choosing to take part, utilising young people’s view of the world, treating young people with respect, seeking to develop young people’s skills and attitudes rather than remedy ‘problem behaviours’, helping young people develop stronger relationships and collective identities, respecting and valuing differences and promoting the voice of young people.
According to the national careers centre the skills, knowledge, values, attributes and qualities needed for a youth offending officer are, A genuine interest in helping people, patience, empathy and a non-judgmental attitude, excellent communication and 'people' skills, a flexible and adaptable approach, the ability to stay calm under pressure and handle challenging behaviour, Respecting confidentiality, being confident to work as an individual but also having the personality to be heard and be able to get your point across within a group, having good organisational skills, having effective time management , knowledge of relevant criminal justice and childcare legislation and the ability to work with difficult or disadvantaged young people and families.
The knowledge needed to become a youth offending officer involves a great deal of training, qualifications and voluntary work.
“Many youth offending teams will ask for qualifications in social work or probation, although in some YOTs you may be able start as a YOT support worker without these, as long as you have gained plenty of relevant experience through volunteering.
In many youth offending services, YOT support workers will work with low and medium risk offenders, while social work-qualified and experienced workers work with higher-risk cases.
The training and voluntary work available to become a youth offending officer are endless but the most recommend types were, “A series of short online courses at an introductory level, Professional Certificate in Effective Practice (Youth Justice) run by the Open University, aimed at both new and experienced youth justice workers Foundation Degree in Youth Justice run by the Open University, aimed at current youth justice employees and volunteers.”
The values needed to become a youth offending worker. Youth work is underpinned by a clear set of values. These include young people choosing to take part, utilising young people’s view of the world, treating young people with respect, seeking to develop young people’s skills and attitudes rather than remedy ‘problem behaviours’, helping young people develop stronger relationships and collective identities, respecting and valuing differences and promoting the voice of young people.
The Relationship requires between the Young Offending Team and the Young Offenders.
This type of youth work is very different to others and building
relationship can prove to be much harder. The reason for this is that, for
example, a young person chooses to go to a youth club and participate in the
activities provided. However in youth offending these young people are demanded
to meet up with their designated support worker. This causes problems as most young people never like being told what to do and in
this case they have no control at all. This also makes it very hard for the
youth offending officer because in most cases, the young person has no intention
of building a relationship with him/her at all. This is the main reason why this type of work is not
just for everyone, you need to be prepared to let down, and it might feel like
all of your efforts are for nothing but this is part of this field.
The assessment stage of the relationship between the officer and the young person is vital as this helps pinpoint valid things within a young person that will help build that relationship and also helps identify how it is best to help that young person as much as possible. Baker expresses how important this is, Baker’s (2008) review of effective practice in assessment, planning interventions and supervision demonstrates how assessment provides the foundation for all work with young people who offend or are at risk and the importance of assessment in identifying the appropriate focus of interventions. The purpose of assessment is to guide action and in order to be effective, practitioners need to understand the different approaches to assessment and know which methods are best suited to particular situations and groups of young people.
This type of work can also be very rewarding as well, initially it is hard to build that relationship but most of the time when that actual relationship is built, then you start to help that person and start to get somewhere.
The assessment stage of the relationship between the officer and the young person is vital as this helps pinpoint valid things within a young person that will help build that relationship and also helps identify how it is best to help that young person as much as possible. Baker expresses how important this is, Baker’s (2008) review of effective practice in assessment, planning interventions and supervision demonstrates how assessment provides the foundation for all work with young people who offend or are at risk and the importance of assessment in identifying the appropriate focus of interventions. The purpose of assessment is to guide action and in order to be effective, practitioners need to understand the different approaches to assessment and know which methods are best suited to particular situations and groups of young people.
This type of work can also be very rewarding as well, initially it is hard to build that relationship but most of the time when that actual relationship is built, then you start to help that person and start to get somewhere.