Applications are being invited for the following posts:
1 x CATE Practitioner and Missing Coordinator: Your duties and time will be split in respect of working part-time as a CATE Practitioner and part-time as a Missing Coordinator.
1 x CATE Practitioner: To work within the CATE Team supporting Young People and their Families who are at risk of Child Exploitation, including Child Sexual Exploitation and Child Criminal Exploitation.
Both roles will require a good knowledge and understanding of Child Exploitation and its impact on children, young people, and their families; experience of engaging with young people; a clear understanding of safeguarding procedures; and multi-agency working skills to enable Partnership working to reduce the risk posed by ongoing exploitation.
It will also be a requirement to have a good knowledge of Telford and Wrekin Council’s missing procedures and support practitioners in implementing them effectively.
The CATE Practitioner will also need to understand and analyze data relating to missing children and provide detailed reports on this on a monthly basis.
The CATE Practitioner role includes:
* Undertaking CE risk assessments and presenting these to the Risk Assessment Panel.
* Conducting Return Home Interviews for young people who return from having been missing from home.
* Planning and delivering interventions to reduce risk, enabling positive outcomes for young people affected by CE.
* Ensuring young people receive appropriate services to recover from CE.
* Passing information between agencies, including the police, to support the protection of young people and the disruption and prosecution of perpetrators.
* Delivering multi-agency CE training.
* Seeking safeguarding advice from the CATE Team Manager as appropriate.
* Bringing to the attention of the Child Protection & Family Support (CPFS) Service Delivery Manager any difficulties or barriers identified with the CE Care & Support Pathway.
* Offering CE advice and guidance to parents and other professionals.
* Attending various meetings as considered necessary and appropriate to the role.
* Assisting the young person in engaging 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’.
If you would like to discuss the role in more detail, please contact Shanice Johnson, CATE Team Manager at 01952 380670.
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 can be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice.
Posts working with children or vulnerable groups will be subject to an appropriate criminal records check. It is an offence to apply for a role that involves engaging in regulated activity with children and adults in vulnerable circumstances if you are barred from working with one or both of these groups.
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 are well adapted to a hybrid model of working which includes a combination of time spent in the office and at home – our approach is to promote a greater level of flexible working around personal and family commitments
Find out further information about working at Telford & Wrekin Council including our full list of benefits.
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Attached documents:
CATE Practitioner job description
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