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Social Worker (Complex Safeguarding), Ashton-under-Lyne
Location: Ashton-under-Lyne, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
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Yes
Job Reference:
04d4d8d82ff9
Job Views:
8
Posted:
24.03.2025
Expiry Date:
08.05.2025
Job Description:
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade H. Scale 29 - £38,626 to Scale 34 - £43,693 with a professional bar at Scale 31 - £40,476
Assessment Date: 9th or 10th April 2025
The Role
Interested in working with children at risk of exploitation in our Complex Safeguarding Team?
We are looking for a Social Worker to join Tameside’s Complex Safeguarding Team. The team offers an essential and fast-paced provision, working with young people who are identified as at risk/victims of child exploitation, human trafficking and/or missing from home.
We have a strong focus on building trusted relationships and a trauma informed approach with young people alongside the disruption of perpetrators. This is an exciting opportunity to join an innovative service and play a key role in safeguarding and supporting young people at risk of exploitation across Tameside, including carrying out assessments and delivering bespoke interventions to reduce harm, raise aspirations and achieve great outcomes. You will work closely with colleagues from GMP and Health and other partners to deliver the best possible response to those at risk of exploitation.
About You
We are looking for candidates with the ability to:
1. Conduct thorough assessments to identify adolescents at risk of exploitation, including but not limited to, sexual exploitation, criminal exploitation, and trafficking. Utilise trauma-informed approaches to understand the complex needs and experiences of young people affected by exploitation.
2. Provide immediate support and crisis intervention to adolescents experiencing exploitation or facing imminent risk. Work collaboratively with law enforcement, child protection agencies, and other relevant stakeholders to ensure the safety and well-being of young people.
3. Act as a strong advocate for adolescents, ensuring their voices are heard and their rights are upheld. Empower young people to make informed decisions about their lives, while offering practical support and guidance to navigate challenging situations.
4. Work closely with multi-disciplinary teams, including police, health care professionals, schools, and community organisations, to develop coordinated responses to exploitation cases. Facilitate information sharing and joint working to ensure a holistic approach to safeguarding young people.
5. Develop and implement comprehensive risk management and safety plans tailored to the individual needs and circumstances of each young person. Continuously assess and review risks, making necessary adjustments to safeguard against further exploitation.
6. Develop and deliver education and prevention programs aimed at raising awareness of exploitation among adolescents, families, communities and partners. Equip young people with the knowledge and skills to recognise and respond to exploitation risks effectively.
7. Maintain accurate and confidential records of all assessments, interventions, and case progress in accordance with statutory requirements and organisational policies.
About Us
At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.
We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage.
Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. This position is subject to Enhanced with Barred List Disclosure Procedures.
All appointments will be to the bottom salary point in the grade with annual incremental progression each April until the grade maximum is reached. Where an individual can provide evidence that their existing salary in a relevant role surpasses the grade starting salary, a higher entry salary will be considered, subject to the professional grade development criteria also being met if that point is higher than the bar point.
This post is classified as being in a professional job category. As such the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria:
1. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above, AND
2. Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND
3. Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND
4. Professional standards practised to the highest expected level.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English in the person specification.
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.
For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager on [emailprotected]
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