Parent Liaison Officer - North Yorkshire, United Kingdom - Parents Against Child Exploitation

Description

• Holidays/entitlement: 14 days, plus 3 days between Christmas and New Year, plus bank holidays
• Pension scheme 8% employer's contribution from April 2020.
• Extensive training package

You will work with multi-agency partners tackling child exploitation as an independent source of support and contact for parents whose children are being sexually and criminally exploited external to the family, liaising between statutory agencies and families in order to maximise the ability of all parties to safeguard a child at risk of/or being sexually and criminally exploited.

• To work with multi-agency partners, attend team briefings, and take on referrals of parents whose children are at risk of/or are being sexually and criminally exploited.
• To form and maintain professional, supportive, empowering relationships with the parents/carers affected by child sexual exploitation.
• To liaise on behalf of individual parents/carers.
• To maintain good professional practice and ensure ongoing development, through use of supervision and training.
• To establish, maintain and develop good working relations with professionals and organisations both statutory and voluntary.
• To adhere to Pace policies including equal opportunities and diversity.
• To challenge prejudice towards families affected by sexual and criminal exploitation within the wider community through talks etc.
• To advise other professionals of good practice issues related to working with parents/carers of sexually exploited young people.

• To work with multi-agency partners, attend team briefings, and take on referrals of parents whose children are at risk of/or are being sexually /criminally exploited.
• To work with parents to ascertain the level of appropriate emotional and practical support they require.
• To form and maintain supportive, empowering relationships with the parents affected by CCE/CSE to build their self-esteem, confidence, knowledge and resilience to enable them to maintain the family unit and effectively safeguard their child. To acknowledge and respect the crucial role in safeguarding that they bring.
• To equip parents with information and understanding of the processes by which children and young people are groomed and coerced into exploitation.
• To provide information to parents about the roles of safeguarding practitioners and keep them abreast of the response to their case where appropriate.
• To act as a bridge between the agencies and parents, taking on an advocacy role for individual parents with services, and feeding back information from parents into the team where this is appropriate.
• To give support and information to families going through the judicial process, from referral of their case to the Crown Prosecution Service through to post-trial re-adjustment.
• To respond appropriately and effectively to any child protection/safeguarding concerns as and when they arise.
• To participate in Common Assessment Framework (CAF), Team Around the Child (TAC), child protection and other formal support processes for parents/carers when required.
• Link parents/carers and where necessary, other family members, into services and support appropriate to their needs (i.e. health services, training, positive activities, counselling).
• Link parents /carers to Pace support networks including the volunteer befriending programme, the online forum, Parent Network Days, and the opportunity to contribute to policy consultations or Pace events as appropriate.
• To fulfil targets and objectives agreed by Pace and the Engage Team.

• To promote and maintain good public relations with local partner agencies on behalf of Pace.
• To attend relevant forums and meetings as appropriate.
• To liaise with appropriate professionals and organisations and work collaboratively to establish a network of support for parents/carers.
• To undertake talks, develop and deliver training to professional groups, voluntary and statutory agencies and other appropriate groups.
• To promote an understanding of the needs of parents/carers of sexually and criminally exploited children within the wider community.
• To develop and deliver a programme of preventative education for parents/carers in partnership with Engage partners and other agencies.

• To participate in regular line-management supervision and annual appraisal with the National Parent Liaison Team Manager at Pace, and peer mentoring fro