Role: Child Trafficking Advocate
Based: Home Based with travel across South London
Rate: 16.50 - 19 per hour (depending on pay status)
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 6 months ongoing
Hours: Full Time
Our client, one of the UK’s leading Children’s Charities, is looking to recruit 2 Specialist Support Workers to join their Child Trafficking Service.
The service runs several national programmes supporting and advocating on behalf of children who have experienced trafficking and/ or exploitation across the UK
What does the role involve?
· Managing a caseload of young people and providing them with practical and emotional support and advocating on their behalf as and when required
· Key working clients through both face to face and online support and using creative approaches to ensure the child/ young person is engaged, supported and receives an excellent standard of care
· Working in partnership with a range of partner agencies, professionals and statutory services including Social Services, the Police, Probation, Schools, CAMHS and various medical professionals
· Identifying and responding to safeguarding and working with partner agencies to deliver robust safeguarding responses
· Supporting children and young people through the criminal justice system and building strong rapport with them
· Working to foster independence for the children and supporting them to achieve their goals and integrate them into available networks of support
· Ensuring that the voice of the child is heard and remains at the heart of the service
· Contributing to national development work and feeding into national workstreams and raising awareness of the service and the issues facing these children
What are they looking for?
· Experience of working with children and/ or young people in particular those who have experienced Child Sexual Exploitation, Child Criminal Exploitation/ County Lines and/ or Trafficking
· A background in Social Services, the Police, Asylum and Immigration, Therapeutic Services, Domestic/ Sexual Abuse and/ or Children/ Family related services
· A knowledge of the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) and legislation relating to CYP, Modern Day Slavery and/ or Asylum and Immigration would be highly desirable
· Strong working knowledge of safeguarding and child protection
· Proven track record of working with a range of multi-agency partners and professionals
Supporting Futures Consultancy acts as an employer and agency
Having worked with this client for over ten years we would highly recommend them to any candidate – they have an excellent management team, offer numerous training and development opportunities and deliver high quality child focus services across the UK.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £16.50-£19.00 per hour
Expected hours: 37.5 per week
Schedule:
Licence/Certification:
- DBS on the update service? (required)
Work Location: In person
