Job Description
Our Integrated Child Sexual Exploitation and Child Criminal Exploitation service works with children & young people, who are experiencing or at risk of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) or Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE).
The Regional Manager role has responsibility for the operational management of Catch22’s West Mercia Child Exploitation Service in one of the 4 delivery areas Worcester, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Telford & Wrekin.
We have 2 Regional Manager roles available - one will be based in Shropshire and another in Herefordshire.
This role involves leading a team, overseeing service delivery, managing partnerships with key stakeholders, and ensuring compliance with safeguarding, contractual, and organisational standards.
Main Duties & Accountabilities
* Recruiting, motivating, coaching, and developing a staff team, including carrying out annual appraisals, regular supervision meetings, and managing staff health, safety, and wellbeing. Maintaining professional knowledge and competencies within the team, to ensure that all work is completed, in compliance with required frameworks.
* Ensuring that all service user information, interventions, and other required data is recorded appropriately. Undertaking weekly reviews of service data, to identify outcome performance and service delivery risks, and implementing corrective actions, such as service improvements, or process changes.
* As the designated safeguarding lead, managing operational risk, health and safety, governance, and safeguarding issues, in line with policies and processes, and representing Catch22 on local safeguarding boards where appropriate.
* Managing stakeholder engagement, to promote the service and generate appropriate referrals, monitoring and allocating referrals to the service, ensuring that caseload management structures are in place, including specialist female and mental health caseloads to maximise impact for young people.
* Ensuring that the diverse needs and aspirations of all groups of service users are considered in service delivery and to enable all service users to fulfil their potential.
* Where necessary, holding a small caseload of high-risk clients, ensuring that appropriate support is given to young people according to their need, who are referred by means of effective assessment and support planning.
* Liaising effectively with local partner organisations and other relevant agencies to ensure effective referrals, care and risk management as well as ease of transition and referral for young people and to promote the continued joint work of the service and other partners. Attend relevant meetings or delegate to the most appropriate caseworker to ensure Catch22’s service is fully integrated with other services.
* Attending relevant meetings, working with service delivery partners to identify other professionals, statutory and non-statutory stakeholders to include in service training offer to improve awareness and impact of support for women and girls.
* Contribute as an active member of the senior management team, attending meetings and training events as necessary.
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Qualifications
Qualifications
* A relevant qualification, or equivalent experience, in a relevant discipline – such as youth, community, health and social care, management.
* Basic ICT skills, with experience of using recording and data collation systems.
* Knowledge of engagement and intervention strategies.
* A Management qualification, NVQ3/5 Health and Social Care. (Desireable)
Additional Information
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time, 37 Hours per week
Salary: £40,509 (FTE)
Location: Office based with national travel to regional offices (Worcester, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Telford & Wrekin)
Shropshire Office - Grovenor House, Battlefield Enterprise Park, Shrewsbury SY1 3AB.
Herefordshire Office - The Kindle Centre, Belmont Road, Herefordshire HR2 7JE.
Closing Date for applications: Friday, 2nd May
Interviews will take place week commencing 5th May.
Catch22 is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice will be followed and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. The post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
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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 cath.forshaw@catch-22.org.uk 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 .