Youth Justice
Youth justice
We supply youth justice workers to custodial precincts and community programmes. The job needs both halves: someone a young person can trust, who will still hold the line.
Built around what your programme needs
What we supply
Youth justice placements fail when a provider sends someone who can do the paperwork but cannot hold a room, or someone who can hold a room but escalates it. We screen for both, and we say no when we do not have the right person available.
Our workers operate inside your operating procedures, your incident reporting, and your escalation chain. They are briefed on the precinct or programme before their first shift, including the specific young people they will be working with where you are able to share that.
Where a placement is not working, we replace the worker. Persevering with a poor fit costs the young person more than it costs us.
Roles we fill
- Youth justice workers
- Custodial precinct support
- Community programme support
- Mentoring and positive role modelling
- Behavioural support and safety planning
- Transport, supervision and community engagement
What a youth justice placement covers
The service
Custodial precinct support
Custodial precinct support Workers placed in custodial precincts to supervise, support and de-escalate, operating fully inside your procedures.
Mentoring and role modelling
Mentoring and role modelling Consistent adults who turn up when they said they would. For many young people in the system, that is the intervention.
Behavioural support
Behavioural support Trauma informed practice and safety planning. De-escalation first, restrictive practice as an absolute last resort.
Transport and supervision
Transport and supervision Court, appointments, family contact and community activity, supervised and transported by the same familiar worker.
Every youth justice worker holds these before their first shift
Our workforce
This division has the highest screening floor on the site, and no exceptions to it.
- Certificate IV in Youth Work, Community Services or Child, Youth and Family Intervention
- Current Working With Children Check
- National Police Check, plus an international police check where applicable
- Custodial precinct clearance where the placement requires it
- Trauma informed practice training
- Current First Aid and CPR
- Demonstrated experience in a custodial or community youth justice setting
Why programmes choose us
What a unit manager gets
- Workers briefed on the precinct before the first shift
- De-escalation training, not just a compliance tick
- The same faces back, because unfamiliarity escalates a unit
- Incidents reported the same shift, in your format
- A worker withdrawn and replaced when the fit is wrong
- Cover for the shift you cannot fill at 10pm on a Sunday
Our divisions
Also from South East Staffing
Tell us which side of the roster you are on
Two ways we can help
For employers
You have shifts to fill
Send us the roster and we will come back with screened, ticketed workers. Emergency cover is answered on the phone, 24 hours a day.
For job seekers
You are looking for work
Care, youth work and warehouse roles across Melbourne and regional Victoria. Send us your resume and we will talk you through what is available.