Caseworker (Missing From Home & Child Exploitation) - Wallasey, United Kingdom - Catch22

Catch22

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Wallasey, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Company Description

At Catch22, we are proud of our reputation as a modern and progressive employer.

Our 1,300 colleagues and 300 volunteers work at every stage of the social welfare cycle, supporting over 60,000 individuals from cradle to career.

Our work spans education, social justice, and rehabilitation, children's social care, family support, social action, and getting people into work.

Wirral Missing and Child Exploitation Service

Our Wirral Missing & Child Exploitation Service responds to, and fully supports, young people who are currently involved in child sexual exploitation (CSE), child criminal exploitation (CCE), gangs, and trafficking, through both one to one and group work.

We also support young people who have been reported as missing to Police.

Comprehensive screening and assessment of young people is conducted to identify CSE or CCE risk and incidence, followed by programmes of intervention, which enable young people to reflect upon and recognise CE.
Longterm support for young people affected by CE is provided, ensuring that they are fully supported to recover, and reduce any further risk.
Building on the success of our nationally recognised youth violence prevention work, the service also supports young people to exit gangs.

Job Description:

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Wirral Missing & Child Exploitation Service, as a Child Exploitation Case Worker.

You will be working with a variety of professionals, to empower children and young people, and to keep them safe from harm.

Main Duties and Accountabilities

Undertaking one to one work with children and young people who are vulnerable to CE, to inform a risk reduction plan, and planning and delivering support interventions, identifying and supporting access to additional or specialist services for young people and parents where necessary, to ensure that their needs are met, and risk factors are reduced.
Developing and sustaining productive working relationships with referring agencies, to ensure that the regular and appropriate referrals are received, and particularly working in partnership with Children's Social Care to facilitate support where CE is highlighted as a risk.
Working with Merseyside Police Missing from Home Coordinators, and Local Authority Stakeholders, to contribute towards the collation of soft intelligence, information on CE issues, and trends.
Offering Educational Awareness Raising with the local authority, including placement providers, education, parents, and young people, and cofacilitating CE Awareness Training, in partnership with LSCP's.
Working with the Local Authorities, and their Local Safeguarding Children's Board, to ensure positive media messages, and marketing of the service to young people.
Working in association with, and supporting, the CE Pan Merseyside Protocol, and working in accordance with Catch22 policies and procedures, and local authority guidance, to ensure that the effective use of resources and targets are achieved.

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Qualifications:

Minimum 5 GCSE's (grade C or above), or equivalent.
Experience of planning, delivering, and evaluating support activities for and with young people and their carers, and working directly with young people on levels 24 of the continuum of need, who present a variety of support needs.
Experience and understanding of case management including assessment, action planning and reviews, and working in partnership with a variety of agencies to achieve agreed outcomes.
Knowledge of the issues affecting young people at risk of CE, and knowledge and understanding of Equality and Diversity issues.
Able to communicate effectively at all levels, both orally and in writing, to engage young people and their parents, or carers within the community, handling sensitive and confidential issues with tact and diplomacy.
Able to organise your own work routines effectively, with a minimum of supervision and support, working on your own initiative within given boundaries, to agreed action plans.
Able to evaluate and monitor progress against targets, to ensure that targets and deadlines are met.
Ability to promote equality, diversity, rights, and responsibilities of individuals.

Additional Information

Salary:
£24,001 per annum

Hours of work:
Full time, 37 hours per week

Contract:
Fixed term, until

You will need to be willing to work flexible hours, evenings, weekends, and antisocial hours if required.
A driving licence, and access to a car, is required for this role.

See the benefits of working for Catch22 here.

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