Young Women and Girls Worker - Manchester, United Kingdom - AFRUCA - Safeguarding Children

AFRUCA - Safeguarding Children
AFRUCA - Safeguarding Children
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Manchester, United Kingdom

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AFRUCA - Safeguarding Children is a national charity established in May 2001 to promote the safeguarding and well-being of children in Black and Ethnic communities in the UK.

AFRUCA has its Head Office in London, a Centre for Black and Ethnic Children and Families in Manchester and projects working with families and communities across the country.

Our Child Trafficking and Youth Violence Programme includes a County Lines Child Trafficking Family Support Service and a Children at Risk of Serious Violence Project.

The Phoenix Project is based within the Child Trafficking and Youth Violence Programme.


Are you:

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Experienced working with complex young people?:


  • Passionate about safeguarding young women and girls from gangs and exploitation?:
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Comfortable building rapport with young people and maintaining engaging conversations:


  • Able to provide emotional support focusing on self esteem building

Job title:
Young Women and Girls Worker - Phoenix Project for Young Women and Girls at Risk of Exploitation and Violence (full-time)


Location:
AFRUCA Centre, Manchester. We are happy to consider/support relocation to Manchester


Duration:
This post is funded till March 2025


Hours:40 hours per week (5 days per week, including some weekends. Remote working opportunities)


Benefits: 28 days holiday per year pro rata, plus bank holidays. 5% Employer Pension Contributions. Learning and skills development opportunities. A very diverse work environment.


We are recruiting a
Young Women and Girls Worker in Manchester to help deliver our Phoenix Project for young women and girls at risk of gang manipulation, coercive control, grooming and exploitation.

The post holder will provide a range of one to one and group support to enable service users build self esteem, self-protection and resilience.


This position will enable us at AFRUCA to support young women and girls across Manchester to address the intersecting issues affecting them and their well-being that puts them at risk of abuse, coercive control, gang manipulation, grooming, exploitation and other forms of extra familial harm.

The Phoenix project will deliver targeted direct one to one support, mentoring and group activities for at least 25 young women and girls each year to build self-esteem, healthy relationships, support them to understand the indicators of coercive control, grooming and exploitation, build self-protection and resilience.

The post-holder will work very closely with a range of agencies especially Complex Safeguarding, AP Task Force, education providers, police and community/faith organisations to deliver the project and provide effective support for service users.


This position is based in our Centre for Black and Ethnic Children and Families in Manchester, and is funded by the Home Office through Manchester Community Safety Partnership to support the delivery of Manchester's Community Safety Strategy.


Detailed Job Description
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Provide direct one to one support, mentoring and coaching to young women and girls at risk of Child Exploitation and Youth Violence. _

  • Support and guide young women and girls who are service users to address vulnerabilities or issues leading to vulnerabilities and work with other professionals to implement safeguarding processes to ensure their wellbeing and protection
  • Assist service users to navigate difficult relationship with their parents/family/peers to improve communication and build healthy relationships
  • Support young girls to address ongoing challenges they may have at school/further education to enable them stay in education and avoid exclusion
  • Provide one to one mentoring (facetoface and virtually) using a Person Centred Approach and provide emotional wellbeing support focusing on building selfesteem, healthy relationships, understanding indicators of coercive control, grooming and gang exploitation and selfprotection
  • Build effective rapport with young people from diverse communities and their families
  • Maintain open communication with parents who might struggle to understand their children's behaviour, especially where issues of identity, peer pressure and absence of a positive role model are concerned
  • Support young girls to engage with a range of statutory agencies including education, the police, social services, youth justice and others
  • Develop and provide training material and mentoring to enable young girls understand the consequences of engaging in negative behaviours
  • Signpost young people to other service providers where such services are not available at AFRUCA
  • Provide regular reports both to AFRUCA and external professionals to evidence impact of work carried out over the course of the sessions
  • Lead and support event planning
  • Represent AFRUCA in a professional manner
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Provide and lead on group activities and support for young people for peer learning, networking, befriending and enhance emotional well-being_
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