Restorative Approaches Practitioner

Restorative Approaches Practitioner Service:
Youth Justice Service £47,262– £50,676 (plus market supplement) Closing date: 04/10/2026 at 23:59 WE ARE NEWHAM

We’re a vibrant, dynamic, culturally rich London Borough with a young population and limitless potential. Newham a challenging yet rewarding place to work supporting young people who are involved or at risk of being involved with the Youth Justice System. We are steadfastly committed to our workforce being representative of the families that we work with, and we are taking coordinated, meaningful and focused action to develop an inclusive culture because we believe this is at the heart of enabling diversity in all respects, including diversity of thought.

We are taking positive actions to challenge all forms of discrimination and injustice to help make Newham a fairer and more equitable place for children and families to live, learn and thrive.

We’re building a fairer Newham through investment, co-production and by continuously developing our Circles of Support practice model. Newham’s Youth Justice aims to prevent crime, and the fear of crime, by ensuring that services are available to support children and young people in the criminal justice system whilst ensuring the needs of victims and our communities are taken into account and that we look to tackle disproportionality wherever we find it.

Newham Youth Justice Service aims to put those who have been harmed at the centre of our work in preventing crime, and the fear of crime, through our engagement of children at risk of offending along with their families. We are working to ensure that those who have been harmed in our community are supported in all that we do. We are therefore seeking an experienced, enthusiastic and dynamic Restorative Approaches Practitioner to ensure the voice of those harmed is heard.

Restorative Justice brings the Youth Justice Service, Metropolitan Police and Probation to work together to provide improved services to victims of crime. Newham Youth Justice Service aims to put victims of crime at the centre of our work in preventing crime, and the fear of crime, through our engagement of victims, children at risk of offending and their families. The Restorative Approaches practitioner will ensure that victims of crime in our community are supported in all that we do.

As a Restorative Approaches Practitioner, you will contribute to the provision of effective and high-quality multi-agency Youth Justice Service, in ensuring that the voice of those harmed is heard in all that we do, and that all YJS interventions with children and their families include restorative justice activity.

You will establish and maintain effective multi-agency links with key partner agencies to support victims of crime in Newham.

People are at the heart of everything we do. Our core values are respect, aspiration, empowering culture, integrity, working together. We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced practitioner who is willing to work within Newham Youth Justice Service values bringing a victim focused approach to our service delivery.

• A commitment to addressing disproportionality wherever we find it.
• We’re an Outstanding local authority focused on reaching excellence.
• We offer genuinely flexible/hybrid working as long as children and young people are seen.
• Stability: 100% of our Senior Managers and 71% of Team Managers are permanent.
• Our firmly established practice model, Circles of Support, was recently nominated for the prestigious MJ Award for Innovation in Children’s Services and allows systemic, restorative practice to flourish.
• Career progression is possible with Newham;…