Salary £39,152 - £46,142 and Excellent Benefits (Pay award pending)
Our Children and Young People’s Service are currently recruiting a Child Exploitation Social Worker for Rotherham’s Evolve Service.
About the Evolve Social Work Service
The Evolve Child Exploitation service works with young people and their families from across the borough of Rotherham. They also support our Looked After children and foster carers in placement to reduce and prevent Child Exploitation. This role involves helping young people understand the impact of the abuse they have suffered and identifying young victims of exploitation.
The team focus is:
* Trauma-informed one to one support for vulnerable young people who have been groomed by groups for sexual exploitation
* Supporting young people throughout investigations
* Complex abuse queries and mapping intelligence to disrupt and reduce risk.
* Developing phased care plans aimed at building life skills, teaching young people to recognise risk and manage their own safety within the community.
* Safety planning
Be part of our cutting-edge work to safeguard young people in the community at risk of CE, gang involvement and drug related risks within the community. This role would suit candidates with high levels of emotional resilience and self-awareness to deal with challenging behaviours given the nature of risks managed within a closely monitored and supervised environment.
Key benefits of working at Rotherham Council’s Children and Young People’s Service are:
* You will be joining an authority ofsted rate as Good
* Manageable caseloads.
* Strong management support and oversight with approachable and supportive senior managers.
* Regular reflective supervision.
* Excellent professional learning & development opportunities – guaranteed 15 days per year, underpinned by the Rotherham Family Approach which incorporates ‘Signs of Safety’, ‘Restorative Approaches’, and ‘Social Pedagogy’ as our methodological approach and framework.
* Bespoke Learning Academy to support practitioners.
* Excellent social work case management and reporting systems making your job easier.
* An accredited social work career pathway to Level 2, 3 and Advanced Practitioner positions and a proven record of ‘growing our own’ at all levels.
* A positive learning environment to enhance your social work career.
* Opportunity to talk to current staff via a virtual drop in to gain greater insight.
* Able to offer fixed term contracts to cover maternity leave should that suit your personal circumstances.
About You
We are seeking talented and inspirational professionals who can:
* Innovate to help re-define children’s services.
* Promote a learning and coaching culture.
* Develop the skills and practices of our Social Care team to provide an outstanding service to children and young people.
* Add value and make the most of available resources.
Our vision is for the children and families of Rotherham to routinely experience and describe the services they receive from us as outstanding, and we intend to do that by putting the child first in everything we do.
By working with our Children’s Social Care teams, you will play a crucial role in developing their skills and practice and our collective commitment to an ethos of excellence, integrity, trust and transparency. Joining us at a time of change regarding developing practice model provides you with an opportunity to be involved and influence the service design and development of practice in line with methodological approaches.
With new leadership in place and a heartfelt commitment to providing best practice centre of excellence, you will play a vital role in building our performance culture – providing direction and support that is rewarding in every sense, for every individual.
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