AddressChild Exploitation Social Worker– Rotherham, South Yorkshire
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, Children and Young People’s Services
37 hours per week, permanent
Salary details: £43,421 & Excellent Benefits
Now is the time to come and work for Rotherham Council Children and Young People’s Service. For more information about Rotherham Social Care jobs, please visit:https://www.rotherham.gov.uk/childrens-social-work-jobs
ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY
Our Children and Young People’s Service are currently recruiting a Child Exploitation Social Workerfor 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 with the primary function of reducing risk around Child Exploitation. This includes working children and young people who are Looked After and are placed both in and out of the Rotherham area. Alongside the direct work with children, young people and their families, we work close with our multi agency partners and communities and provide training and learning opportunities for others to help in a consistent and robust response to exploitation throughout Rotherham. We are based with the Evolve Police and support young people as victims within the investigation and Court process.
The team focus is:
Trauma-informed one to one support for vulnerable young people who have been groomed by groups for sexual or criminal 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.
Group work
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 behaviors 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 a 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 with regard to developing practice model provides you 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 a best practice centre of excellence, you will play a vital role in building on our performance culture - providing direction and support that is rewarding in every sense, for every individual.
If you have any questions regarding these opportunities please email them to alexia.barber@rotherham.gov.uk
This post involves working with children and therefore if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at an enhanced level. Further information about the Disclosure Scheme can be found at www.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. For further information, please visit our website.
From 1st April 2017 to 31st March 2024 employees paid at Band D and above are subject to a temporary pay reduction of 1.15% spread out by means of a weekly / monthly deduction (dependent on pay frequency) from each pay period over the full financial year. In recognition of implementing this temporary measure, those who experience a pay reduction will be awarded of three additional day’s leave (pro rata for part-time).
