Community Justice Assistant

Job Description

Based at County Buildings, Market Street, Forfar with an Angus wide remit, your main duties will involve working within the Unpaid Work, Diversion from Prosecution, Bail Supervision and Structured Deferred Sentence programmes. You will also be required to provide support to clients of Justice Services with a variety of needs in different settings including office, home, court, and prisons. You will be expected to co-deliver groupwork programmes and provide support to Justice staff. You will regularly attend Court and attend prisons to support service users, as required. You will be involved in the broader social work duties relating to Court Orders and Parole Licences, in line with adult and child protection policies and procedures and liaising with other agencies when required.

We are looking for a highly experienced practitioner, preferably with previous experience in a social work or similar setting. A good team worker, you must have good oral and written communication skills, the ability to maintain accurate and up to date records, use your initiative and be self-motivated. You must have an interest in working with people who have an offending history, the ability to identify needs and plan support packages, taking a trauma informed and person-centred approach. Experience of multi-agency working is essential, and you must be reliable and have a flexible approach to work, with the ability to work some evenings if required.

A full, current driving licence and access to a vehicle are essential.

For further information please contact:  Avril Millar, Senior Community Justice Officer, Angus Justice Services, tel 01307 492150

This job is workstyle 3 - Flexi

You will have the opportunity to benefit from our flexible and agile working practices. This means you will work from a variety of locations including working from council buildings and you can work from home to best suit your work, meetings and collaboration.

Please note interviews will be held Thursday, 26 March 2026.

Requirements

You must have the ability to become a member of the PVG Scheme.

Please refer to job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.

About Angus Council

In addition, please refer to the "applicant guidance" document when completing your application form and to the "welcome to Angus" document and our website https://www.angus.gov.uk/jobs_and_training/working_for_angus_council for more information about working for Angus Council.

The Individual

We are happy to discuss flexible working during the recruitment process for this position. This means we are open to a conversation about working patterns and the flexibility that is available for this role whilst managing the workload.

We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job:

Those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities, care experienced young people and ex-armed forces personnel. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.