1 x CATE Practitioner and Missing Coordinator where your duties and time will be split in respect of working part time as a CATE Practitioner and part time as a Missing Coordinator.
To work within the CATE Team supporting Young People and their Families who are at risk of Child Exploitation, this will include Child Sexual Exploitation and Child Criminal Exploitation. Both roles will require a good knowledge and understanding of Child Exploitation and the impact of this upon children, young people and their families; experience of engaging with young people, alongside a clear understanding of safeguarding procedures, and multi-agency working skills to enable Partnership working to reduce the risk posed of ongoing exploitation. It will also be a requirement to have a good knowledge of Telford and Wrekin Council's missing procedures and supporting practitioners to implement them effectively. The CATE Practitioner will also need to understand and analyse data relating to missing children and to provide detailed reports in respect of this on a monthly basis.
The CATE Practitioner role includes:
* To undertake CE risk assessments and present these to the Risk Assessment Panel.
* To undertake Return Home Interviews for young people who return from having been missing from home.
* To plan and deliver interventions to reduce risk enabling positive outcomes for young people affected by CE.
* To ensure young people receive appropriate services to enable them to recover from CE.
* To pass information between agencies including the police to support the protection of young people and the disruption and prosecution of perpetrators.
* To deliver multi-agency CE training.
* To seek safeguarding advice from the CATE Team Manager as appropriate.
* To draw to the attention of the Child Protection & Family Support (CPFS) Service Delivery Manager any difficulties or barriers identified with the CE Care & Support Pathway.
* To offer CE advice and guidance to parents and other professionals.
* To attend a variety of meetings as is considered necessary and appropriate to role.
* To assist the young person to engage with other professionals.
The role requires commitment, perseverance, creativity and an enthusiastic approach to working with Young People and Families who may be 'hard to reach'.
Telford & Wrekin Council is an award winning council, recognized as Local Authority of the Year 2022 at the Municipal Journal Awards, and the Association for Public Service Excellence Council of the Year in 2021. At Team Telford we work hard to protect, care and invest to create a better borough and our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Having the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles allows us to deliver the excellent services that residents and businesses on the borough expect from us. Our friendly and passionate teams are trusted by leaders and managers to deliver this ambition. We invest and nurture our workforce and support our employees to develop and thrive. The better we are, the bigger difference we make to the people we serve.
We value our employees and offer staff rewards and plenty of opportunities for personal development and career progression including:
* Competitive rates of pay.
* Automatic access to a secure, flexible and tax-efficient Local Government Pension Scheme.
* Staff benefits and discounts including salary sacrifice schemes.
* Free on-site parking.
* Generous leave entitlement (24 days rising to 32 days) plus 8 bank holidays and an additional concessionary day.
* Free access to our employee assistance programme and confidential counselling.
* Flexible and mobile working policy - we promote a hybrid model of working which includes a combination of time spent in the office and at home, allowing for greater flexibility around personal and family commitments.
At Telford & Wrekin Council, we know that having a diverse workforce is key to providing the best possible services to our community. We celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where people are able to be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and actively encourage applications from under-represented groups. We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities or other health conditions.
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