Overview
We work with children who have been exploited or who are at risk of being exploited. Our work is not time limited, you will get an opportunity to be creative, with the children in finding ways of engaging them and helping them understand that they have been exploited. The role of a social worker in the Child Exploitation team is to build a long-lasting relationship with children who have been, or at risk of being, exploited. We are co-located with Leicestershire Police Child Exploitation teams and Missing Persons team so we are able to provide a joint up approach to the children we are trying to protect. We also work closely with Leicester City and Rutland Children\'s services and Health colleagues. On some cases you will work directly with the police to create safety around children. We are in the process of developing the pathway for Harm Outside the Home Conferences, aligning ourselves with Durham University, acknowledging the child protection risks to children who are at high risk of exploitation and working with their parents as partners. You will, at times, work alongside your colleagues in other Leicestershire Children\'s Social Care teams, being part of the team around a child and at other times, where child exploitation is the sole reason for Children\'s Services to be involved, the case will be held solely within our team. In Leicestershire we pride ourselves on relationship-based practice and striving for excellence, we are proud of our team and how they strive to ensure that children are safe and where possible the persons of concern are arrested and prosecuted for their actions. If you are passionate about positive outcomes for children and feel you can give care and commitment to our children, then this is the role for you.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post. For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement. We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual\'s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
How to apply
To apply for this post, you must respond to and evidence the following 7 essential criteria within your personal statement. This should be no more than 1,000 words.
Essential criteria
* Be a Qualified social worker
* Social Work England Registered
* Experience and knowledge of child exploitation
* Experience of working in a multi-agency setting and build and maintain positive working relationships
* Demonstrate knowledge and skills in being child/young person centred, and trauma informed
* Evidence of working within a fluid and challenging environment with the flexibility to meet the needs of the children and young people that we support.
* To model good social work practice including that of accountability for high quality service delivery, personal development, and efficient use of resources, including the ability to deliver training/workshops etc to a range of professionals
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion. In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to .
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