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Where a youth offending team worker can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a youth offending team worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Youth offending team workers support young offenders by preventing them from reoffending, counselling them for behavioural changes, referring them to agencies that provide housing, helping them back into education, involving them in constructive activities, visiting them when located in secure institutions and assessing future risks.

Also known as youth offender team worker, juvenile probation social worker, juvenile probation officer, youth offender social worker, youth offending team officer, youth resettlement officer, youth justice worker, youth offending team leader, youth resettlement worker.

Professionals 75 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: education welfare officer, 77%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
education welfare officer 77% covered residential home young people… 74% covered mental health support worker 71% covered social worker 70% covered residential home adult care w… 70% covered youth offending team work… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from youth offending team worker, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a youth offending team worker already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A youth offending team worker needs 72 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • restorative justice business, administration and law
  • assess offenders' risk behaviour information skills
  • engage with offenders assisting and caring
  • child protection services
  • provide testimony in court hearings communication, collaboration and creativity
  • apply anti-oppressive practices assisting and caring
  • apply case management communication, collaboration and creativity
  • make legislation transparent for users of social services communication, collaboration and creativity
  • negotiate with social service stakeholders communication, collaboration and creativity
  • negotiate with social service users communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a youth offending team worker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Youth offending team worker is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a youth offending team worker’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.