Volunteer Community Panel Member
Are you passionate about helping people? Do you want to make a difference in your community? Do you want to be part of a team, committed to making a difference? If yes, we’d love to have you as part of our team! Remedi are recruiting and training Volunteer Community Panel Members on behalf of Rotherham Youth Justice Service who are responsible for overseeing children who have offended and supporting them to prevent further offending whilst repairing harm to the victim/s and community. As part of this, Remedi alongside Rotherham YJS, manage children who have been sentenced with a community order at Court, known as a Referral Order. A key part of the Referral Order are the panel meetings which are held every three months of the child’s order. Panel meetings are made up of two Volunteer Community Panel Members, Youth Justice representatives, victim and reparation practitioners and most importantly, the child and their parent/carer. Working together, the panel decide how best to support the child to prevent further offending and how they can make things right by the victim and community. This is where we need you! Remedi are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. You will be required to undertake training to support with this and complete DBS/police vetting where required.
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YOU WILL BE...
A representative of the community: We are looking for people from all backgrounds and all walks of life, we recognise that the best people to help others within a community are those that are already a part of it.
Friendly, engaging and approachable: Listening and responding to what is being said so that people feel supported, valued, and cared for is an essential part of this role. Although referral orders are a formal court order, it is important panels are facilitated in a child friendly manner while ensuring that everyone present is heard and feels part of planning the order, most importantly the child and victim/s. Good verbal communication and listening skills are vital to this volunteer role.
Motivated and driven: This is an extremely rewarding experience, where you can potentially change young people’s lives in a positive way. You will need to have empathy and be driven by helping people to become the people they can and want to be.
A believer in young people: Panels are run on the principles of restorative justice and offer young people the opportunity to move on from offending while making it right for those they have harmed.
REQUIREMENTS OF THE ROLE
· Attend all training sessions prior to starting the volunteer role. This will be spread across three or four sessions, both online and in person and may include weekends.
· Facilitate panel meetings for children who have been sentenced with a Referral Order at Court.
· To ensure the voice of children and victims are heard and included in the Referral Order contract.
· Comply with RMBC and Remedi policies and procedures, particularly safeguarding children, equality and diversity and health and safety.
· Receive group and individual support on a regular basis to praise best practice, share feedback and identify areas for development.
· Monitor the success of the Referral Order via review panels, back on track panels and final panels, and where necessary, refer the case back to court if the child has not complied.
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Remedi
Empowering people, changing lives.
Remedi are a charity that has been at the forefront of the development and delivery of Restorative Justice, services and training since 1996.We are the largest single provider of RJ in the UK, hold the national contract for RJ in Homicide cases and provide extensive training on an international basis, most recently for the United Nations.Taking a restorative approach to all we do we have developed innovative and hugely impactful… Victim support services, Mentoring initiatives for all ages, Family support and Conflict Resolution interventions and a wide array of Educational programmes.
