Child Exploitation Co-ordinator - Stafford, United Kingdom - Staffordshire County Council

Staffordshire County Council

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Stafford, United Kingdom

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Staffordshire is a great place to live.

Most families are happy, safe and have loving homes, however there are some families who face challenges that mean they cannot thrive in the way they want to.

We are committed to developing a system and a way of working that will enable Staffordshire's children to thrive within their own families and communities by addressing the root causes of difficulties for the whole family at the earliest point.

We aim to:

Maximise the achievement of better outcomes for families in Staffordshire using all available resources, effectively and efficiently
Support safer, healthier, thriving children whose needs are met within their families and communities where it is safe to do so, reducing the need for higher cost, complex interventions
Provide high quality statutory Children's Service (Staffordshire County Council's children's services are currently rated as "Good" by Ofsted) that only works with those children and families who require this specialist level of intervention.

Our commissioning is focused upon reducing demand. We recognise that our commissioning must be evidenced based and future focused.

Whilst the service within the cusp of statutory care is dealing with the issues that are presenting today we expect to commission services, relationships and practice smartly to prevent those issues presenting in the future.

Futures Matter

Within Families & Communities, Futures Matter is an integral part of the Early Help & Specialist Safeguarding Delivery Service, with the Head of Service reporting directly to the Assistant Director, Children's Social Care, who provides management oversight.

Our aim is to create an environment where families are supported to stay together safely and live well in their communities by building on their strengths.

This is the right thing to do.

Families tell us they do not want to be in services and evidence says that lives are better when needs can be met early within the family or community.

Working in this way is also more sustainable.

We can support more families to live better lives if we focus on addressing needs as early as we can.

We will continue to build a strengths-based approach which will promote a culture of inclusion and support to enable children to achieve their best outcomes.

To support the Child Exploitation Team Manager in coordinating and delivering services in a multiagency frame work to ensure that children identified as at risk of child exploitation are safeguarded.
Provide advice, guidance and support to District and Central Leads, Team Managers and social work colleagues in relation to individual children who are at risk of being exploited.
To support District Leads with MACE Panels and provide expert advice in relation to contextualised safeguarding to assist practitioners to implement strategies to mitigate against associated risks.

You should have:

Degree level qualification or equivalent
Relevant Social Work qualification
Registration with Social Work England

About Staffordshire County Council

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation.

Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together.

This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people.

We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do.

We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to a range of benefits.

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.