YJA Residential Care Worker EO2
REF: IRC325748
DEPARTMENT: Department of Justice (DOJ)
SALARY: £30,458 – £31,097 (under review)
LOCATION: Woodlands JCC, Bangor
The Youth Justice Agency (YJA) was launched as an Executive Agency, as recommended in the Criminal Justice Review 2000, on 1 April 2003.
The YJA aims to make communities safer by helping children to stop offending. The Agency works with children aged 10-17 years who have offended or are at serious risk of offending.
The YJA provides a range of services, often delivered in partnership with others, to help children to address their offending behaviour, divert them from crime, assist their reintegration into the community and to meet the needs of victims of crime.
The overall statement of purpose for the YJA is:
‘Making communities safer by helping children to stop offending.’
Further appointments may be made from this competition should positions become vacant which have similar duties and responsibilities.
For more detailed information, including the duties and responsibilies of the post and criteria to be used during the recruitment and selection process, please click on the Candidate Information Booklet link below.
In order to apply for this position, please click on the "Apply for this job online" link below to register to this vacancy and to submit an online application.
As young people (people under the age of 35), people with a disability and people from minority ethnic communities are currently under represented in the NICS, we would particularly welcome applications from these groups.
The Northern Ireland Civil Service is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
ALL APPLICATIONS FOR EMPLOYMENT ARE CONSIDERED STRICTLY ON THE BASIS OF MERIT.
