Senior Practitioner - Exploitation

Senior Practitioner - Exploitation

£42,403 up to £46,464

This exciting opportunity with one of our clients is within the Futures Matters service in the Child Exploitation Team. As part of their team, you'll support efforts to disrupt child sexual and criminal exploitation, including elements of Modern Day Slavery related to child trafficking. Additionally, you'll closely collaborate with multi-agency partners and connect with all areas of the children and families' service, particularly focusing on children who are missing from home or care.
Main Responsibilities
In this role, you will:

• Act as an independent source of support, advice, and contact for professionals directly working with children at risk of child exploitation.
• Facilitate communication between statutory agencies to enhance the ability of all parties to safeguard children at risk of exploitation by individuals outside their family.
• Coordinate Multi-agency Child Exploitation (MACE) panels and Disruption meetings to address risks faced by young people.
• Collaborate with other professionals to advise on safety plans and neighborhood assessments, ensuring the safety of young people within communities.
• Conduct mapping exercises to identify links between young people at risk of exploitation and maintain a county-wide view of exploitation trends and hot spot areas.
• Support the coordination of Joint Police Operations in response to identified child exploitation across the county.
• Recognize and promote good practice.

The Ideal Candidate
You should:

• Be an experienced worker with a passion for working with vulnerable adolescents, emphasizing engagement and relationship-based social work through Restorative Practice.
• Possess knowledge of contextual safeguarding, external risks to families and carers, and statutory experience in children and families services.
• Hold a social work qualification and have either statutory children and families experience or a degree qualification with significant specialist experience in child exploitation.

Please note that this role involves both on-site/office-based work and an element of remote/home working.
For further information about this role, please contact Georgia Wilson at or call me on (phone number removed).

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