Missing Coordinator

The job itself:

East Riding of Yorkshire, Children's Services have recently been rated GOOD by Ofsted in their recent ILACS inspection.

Ofsted in their recent report stated 'since the last inspection in 2019, when the overall effectiveness of services was judged inadequate with children in care and care leavers judged to be good, the leadership team has made significant and sustained changes in all the practice and leadership areas identified for improvement.

Through extensive engagement with external partners and scrutineers, the improvements in the service mean that children and young people in East Riding receive a timely and effective response and intervention when they need it.

They have ambitious plans and have secured significant investment to develop their services further as part of their continuous improvement journey.

Senior leaders lead by example, and this has supported practitioners to embed the relational model of practice with the families they work with.

We are currently recruiting a Missing Co-Ordinator within our Targeted Intensive Services.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our "Making a Change service" which is a multidisciplinary team for young people who are presenting a high level of vulnerability and who are at particular risk of harm from sexual and criminal exploitation and/or going missing.

Within this role you will deliver face to face support to young people who go missing and complete return home interviews (Missing Chats).

You will be working alongside partner agencies including Humberside Police to coordinate the response to missing children across children's services as part of a multidisciplinary team.

This will include young people who are presenting a high level of vulnerability and who are at particular risk of harm from sexual and criminal exploitation and/or going missing/trafficked.

Fixed Term duration will be 3 years from appointment. Internal secondments welcome.

Our Model
'You can, I can, We can'

We have created a bespoke practice model that reflects and connects our vision, our value base and our behaviour as one East Riding of Yorkshire approach to working with children, young people and their families, which is nurtured and grown from within East Riding of Yorkshire CYPSSS and owned by our workforce.

We remain committed to Signs of Safety as a practice framework, but this will be set within a much wider, values based, model of practice that clearly connects Signs of Safety much more clearly with the East Riding value base, and our overall approach to making and sustaining relationships with children, families and communities.

Without a well embedded model, there is nothing to centre our practice on to ensure that, while the work may be different, all of our teams are grounded in the same values, beliefs, theories and approaches.

Having a well-developed practice model helps to create a common language for the service and enables everyone to understand how we go about doing the right things, in the right way and for the right reasons for children and their families.

You will have excellent written and oral communication skills, be able to demonstrate a high level of motivation and have the ability to work independently, with skills in working within timescales and with conflicting priorities.

This will be an extremely demanding role, but also equally rewarding, with opportunity for training and development within the role.

If you meet all of these qualities, have the right value base, and are an innovative practitioner then what are you waiting for?

Should you require any further details or an informal chat about the role please contact:
Mark Ash or Sian Lomas-Morgan

Please note Interviews will be conducted face to face.

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