Specialist Exploitation Workers (DMBC)

Job description Specialist Exploitation Worker (SEW)

Full Time 37 hours Permanent Grade 8/9 £29,447 - £39,513 depending on experience 3 Posts
The recent changes in practice model have created an exciting opportunity for suitably qualified professionals with experience of working with young people and their families impacted upon by exploitation to join us.

The succesfu applicants will work as a team to provide a borough wide therapeutic service for children, young people and their families where Child Exploitation has been identified as a safeguarding issue and to participate in the on-call weekend rota providing support to young people and their families.
You will need to have a detailed understanding of the impact of exploitation on young people and an understanding of the “contextual” Safeguarding agenda and an ability to undertake direct work and deliver targeted, therapeutic interventions both individually and in a family setting
As a Specialist Exploitation Worker you will need to demonstrate skills and experience in developing effective relationships with young people and their families that promote and deliver safety and sustainable change for families. An ability to undertake assessments and create effective therapeutic intervention plans and monitor your work with young people and their families is essential
You will need to demonstrate experience of building and maintaining effective working relationships with other professionals working within the safeguarding partnership and contribute, as part of the team to awareness raising training and outreach activities delivered through the safeguarding partnership
Closing Date: Sunday 26th March 2023
Interview Date: Week commencing 3rd April 2023

The Child Exploitation team provide a borough wide response to Children, young people and their families when issues of child exploitation have been identified through the MACE process. This includes all forms of exploitation taking into account those who are exploited through trafficking, Child Criminal Exploitation and Child Sexual Exploitation.
The operational response of the CE team is as an intervention team with the aim of offering high intensity / input, to develop a detailed understanding of the exploitation risks present enabling appropriate intervention plans to be developed. The team take a “contextual Safeguarding approach to the work, working therapeutically and in a trauma informed way with the whole family to build “safety” for young people and reducing the need to become looked after or escalate through the social care system. Relationship based practice is at the core of our model of delivery.
The team will also provide an on-call weekend support offer as part of Children’s Service out of hour’s response.