youth offending team worker

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.

The most in-demand skills for this role include social work theory, restorative justice, legal requirements in the social sector, social sciences, adolescent psychological development, social justice. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives youth offending team worker a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.