Caseworker Missing from Home Child Exploitation
Caseworker Missing from Home Child Exploitation
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Job Description
We currently have 1 vacancy for full time Missing from Home and Child Exploitation Case Worker in the following areas.
You will be supporting children and young people aged 10 to 18 years who are identified as being at risk of exploitation whether they perceive themselves to be at risk or not.
As a Caseworker (Missing from Home & Child Exploitation) your main duties will include:
- Undertake return interviews for all notifications within 72 hours
- Determine appropriate support plans and pathways for all young people including the provision of interventions and direct work
- Undertake one to one work with children and young people vulnerable to CE to inform a risk reduction plan.
- Work in partnership with Childrens Social Care to facilitate support where CE is highlighted as a risk.
- Offer educational awareness raising within local authority residential homes for young people who are cared for to enable others to manage and reduce the risks associated with young people being exposed to CE.
- Codeliver CE awareness training as required by the Commissioner
- Work with the Local Authorities and their Local Safeguarding Childrens Board to ensure positive media messages and marketing of the service to young people
- Work in association with and support the CE Pan Merseyside protocol.
- Plan and deliver support interventions in accordance with Catch22 policies and procedures and local authority guidance to ensure effective use of resources and targets are achieved.
- Identify and support access to additional or specialist services for young people and parents where necessary to ensure their needs are met and risks factors are reduced.
- Develop and sustain productive working relationships with referring agencies to ensure the regular and appropriate referrals are received.
- Record all intervention contacts and multiagency correspondence in accordance with the service specification within prescribed Management Information Systems
- Complete all required monitoring information by set timescales to assist the production of feedback reports to funders and stakeholders to track and monitor progress against outcome targets KPIs etc.
- Support and supervise volunteers and student social workers on placement as required
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Qualifications :
Essential Qualifications
- Minimum 5 GCSEs or equivalent grade C or above
Essential experience
- Experience of working directly with young people on level 2 4 on the continuum of need presenting a variety of support needs
- Experience of planning delivering and evaluating support activities for and with young people and their carers
- Experience and understanding of case management including assessment action planning and reviews.
- Experience and application of Health and Safety and risk management procedures.
- Experience of working in partnership with a variety of agencies to achieve agreed outcomes.
- Experience and understanding of Child Protection including Safeguarding processes and procedures.
Essential knowledge
- Knowledge of the issues affecting young people at risk of CSE.
- Knowledge and understanding of Equality & Diversity issues.
Essential skills/abilities
- Able to communicate effectively at all levels orally and in writing.
- Ability to engage young people their parents or carers within the community
- Able to use a variety of IT applications effectively.
- Able to work on own initiative within given boundaries and to an agreed action plan.
- Able to organise your own work routines effectively with a minimum of supervision and support.
- Able to handle sensitive and confidential issues with tact and diplomacy.
- Able to evaluate and monitor progress against targets to ensure that they are met.
- Ability to promote equality diversity rights and responsibilities of individuals.
- Able to write concise reports and meet deadlines.
Additional Information :
Salary: 25585.03 per year
Contract: Full time permanent.
You will need to be willing to work flexible hours and if required to work evenings weekends and antisocial hours.
This role is subject to an enhanced DBS check
See the benefits of working for Catch22 here.
Unless otherwise stated interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified so early application is strongly advised.
At Catch22 we value equality diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them a purpose and a good place to live.
Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.
If you are applying for this role and are care experienced/care leaver Catch22 offers a mentor to assist with the application process. Please contact if you would like to find out more about this support. This information will not be passed to the team recruiting for this position. For more information about the Propel Programme and a guide for candidates who wish to join the programme please see here. You can also watch an animation on the programme here.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
