Engage Missing From Home Practitioner

4 weeks ago


Blackburn with Darwen, United Kingdom Blackburn with Darwen Council Full time

Job description

**Terms and conditions: Full time, 37 hours per week, Permanent**

**Department: Childrens**

**Interview date: Tuesday 28**th** November 2023**

Engage is a multiagency co-located team who specialise in supporting young people who are at risk of harm from and experiencing child sexual exploitation and child criminal exploitation, and those who go missing from home. A vacancy has arisen in the Engage team for a Missing From Home Practitioner to work within the Blackburn with Darwen social care team, based at Greenbank Police Station.

We are seeking to appoint an organised, motivated and experienced individual, who will support some of the most vulnerable children and young people within the borough. Possessing effective risk management skills, you will be knowledgeable in the complexities of missing from home and able to adapt to the challenges of the role. You will have an understanding of child exploitation and how this links to children going missing.

As a Missing from Home Practitioner, you will be required to offer and complete Return Home Interviews with children and young people who go missing within Blackburn with Darwen, ensuring that your practice follows national legislation and guidance and the Pan Lancs Missing from Home Protocol. Adopting a child-focussed and trauma-informed approach, you will work creatively to engage and develop positive relationships with children and young people to help explore their experiences of going missing, undertaking direct work and safety planning as part of this, and will also liaise with parents, carers and partner agencies to triangulate information and assess risk. You will complete detailed and analytical Return Home Interviews and make recommendations regarding and any further actions and support required. You will be required to liaise effectively with colleagues in the Police, Health, PACE, Children's Social Care and partner agencies, and contribute to decision making forums.

The Missing From Home Practitioner role is varied and you will also be supported to prepare and deliver awareness raising and training. You will be based within a small, supportive and stable team and receive support from the Engage Deputy and Team Managers.

**In addition to your CV, please include supporting information which evidences how you meet the criteria detailed on the key requirements document.**

**Job details**:
Job reference
- REQ02398

Date posted
- 07/11/2023

Application closing date
- 22/11/2023

Location
- Blackburn with Darwen

Salary
- Grade F, SCP 17 - 23, £26,845 to £30,151 per annum

Package
- Pay award pending

Contractual hours
- 37

Basis
- Full time

Job category/type
- Council



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