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Social Worker - Child Exploitation Team, Leicestershire
Client:
Leicestershire County Council
Location:
Wigston Police Station, Bull Head Street, Wigston LE18 1WX
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
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Job Views:
3
Posted:
24.04.2025
Expiry Date:
08.06.2025
Job Description:
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 27th April 2025
Interview Date(s): Interviews likely to take place either 9th or 15th May 2025
We are looking for a social worker to join our OUTSTANDING team.
We work with children who have been exploited or who are at risk of being exploited. Our work is not time-limited; you will get an opportunity to be creative with the children in finding ways of engaging them and helping them understand that they have been exploited.
The role of a social worker in the Child Exploitation team is to build a strong working relationship with children who have been, or are at risk of being, exploited. We are co-located with Leicestershire Police Child Exploitation teams and Missing Persons team, allowing us to provide a joint approach to the children we are trying to protect. We also work closely with Leicester City and Rutland Children's services and Health colleagues. In some cases, you will work directly with the police to create safety around children. We are in the process of developing the pathway for Harm Outside the Home Conferences, aligning ourselves with Durham University, acknowledging the child protection risks to children who are at high risk of exploitation and working with their parents as partners.
You will, at times, work alongside your colleagues in other Leicestershire Children's Social Care teams, being part of the team around a child, and at other times, where child exploitation is the sole reason for Children’s Services to be involved, the case will be held solely within our team.
In Leicestershire, we pride ourselves on relationship-based practice and striving for excellence. We are proud of our team and how they strive to ensure that children are safe and that, where possible, the persons of concern are arrested and prosecuted for their actions.
If you are passionate about positive outcomes for children and feel you can give care and commitment to our children, then this is the role for you.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
About you
To apply for this post, you must respond to and evidence the following 7 essential criteria within your personal statement. This should be no more than 1,000 words.
These are the essential criteria that you must meet for this role:
1. Social Work England Registered
2. Experience and knowledge of child exploitation
3. Experience of working in a multi-agency setting and building and maintaining positive working relationships
4. Demonstrate knowledge and skills in being child/young person-centred and trauma-informed
5. Evidence of working within a fluid and challenging environment with the flexibility to meet the needs of the children and young people that we support.
6. To model good social work practice, including accountability for high-quality service delivery, personal development, and efficient use of resources, including the ability to deliver training/workshops to a range of professionals
You must also have an understanding of and commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances while still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style that determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Ayshea Dalby Team Manager or Josie Jackson Team Manager
Telephone: 0116 3058277
Email:
section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal.
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