At Sandwell Children’s Trust we strive for excellence to improve the lives of children. Our ‘Sandwell Deal’, brings together our new improved offering that makes Sandwell Children’s Trust a great place to work; it also sets out our expectations of you as a member of staff.
What we can offer you:
* Generous annual leave of up to 31 days, plus 5 additional days for long service recognition.
* Your birthday off paid in addition to annual leave entitlement and 8 Bank Holidays, plus a concessionary day at Christmas.
* You will receive a generous local government career average pension scheme with employer contributions of 21.6%.
* We recognise individual loyalty with service awards from 2, 5, 10 and every 5 years onwards.
* Flexible working patterns that suit you and all of our roles have well-defined career progression.
* We provide competitive expenses for both mileage (55p per mile) and subsistence, plus access to a comprehensive employee benefits scheme.
37 hours per week
A vacancy has arisen for an Exploitation Worker within the Horizons Team. The team has great working relationships with partners and offers a truly multi-agency way to improving the outcomes for children and families.
You will be a permanent, full-time member of our Exploitation and Missing Team where you will be responsible for direct work with children and young people who go missing and are at risk of exploitation. You will co-work with Social Workers across the locality teams within Sandwell Children’s Trust, ensuring that you offer relationship-based practice and intervention.
We are looking for talented applicants who have experience of working with children and young people, who have a good level of experience of working within the child protection framework and who are ready to take on a new challenge within this developing team.
You will work well as a part of the team, supporting the positive changes alongside your colleagues, the Team Manager, Senior Worker and Co-ordinator.
You will need to drive through the positive changes needed to reduce the risks of our highest risk exploited and missing young people. You will need to be able to undertake direct work, gather vital information, form risk assessments and safety plans and work well with our partner agencies, sharing important information at the right time to ensure the safety of our young people.
About you:
* You will understand the needs of children and young people on a child in need, child protection and looked after children’s plan and have a passion to safeguard children.
* You will be able to demonstrate an excellent knowledge of safeguarding, services and related procedures, practice and policies, as well as a thorough knowledge of all associated legislation.
* You will understand contextual safeguarding and how this changes and evolves through the course of work with a young person and their family.
* You will use your engagement skills to build rapport with our most difficult to engage young people to enable successful intervention and to ensure safety and minimisation of risks.
* The ability to remain organised, formulate and maintain accurate plans, reports and records and the ability to meet deadlines is essential.
* Occasional working of anti-social hours will be required.
* Most importantly you will be child focused and have to be able to demonstrate this throughout your career.
* We would like to be able to see you demonstrate that you can effectively co-work with the teams and be able to improve services.
You will need to have:
* Two years direct experience of working with children, young people and families.
* NVQ Level 3 or above in children, young people and families field.
* Experience of undertaking risk assessments for the purpose of exploitation.
Sandwell Children's Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable groups including children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Completion of an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is a requirement for working with children and young people.
If you require further information on the role or working for us please email recruitment_childrenstrust@sandwell.gov.uk and a member of our Recruitment Team will be happy to give you a call.
To apply please click on the link below to complete an application form and view the Sandwell Deal:
https://sandwelldeal.co.uk/apply/
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