Caseworker (Missing From Home & Child Exploitation)

6 days ago

St Helens, United Kingdom Catch22 Full time

Company Description

At Catch22, we are proud of our reputation as a modern and progressive employer. Our 1,300 colleagues and 300 volunteers work at every stage of the social welfare cycle, supporting over 60,000 individuals, from cradle to career. Our work spans education, social justice and rehabilitation, children's social care, family support, social action, and getting people into work.

**Pan Merseyside (Missing from Home and Child Exploitation)**

Our Pan Merseyside service provides critical specialist support services, that are designed to build understanding, and promote resolution, of complex difficulties that lead to young people becoming missing from home or care. Working in liaison with young people, their families, and the police, we build understanding and provide robust preventative support to young people who are at risk of:

- becoming involved in crime to survive - from stealing, to criminal gang involvement.
- drug and alcohol misuse.
- mental and sexual health issues.
- exclusion from school, and failure to meet educational milestones.

**Job Description**:
The role of **Missing from Home Caseworker **is an excellent opportunity to join a highly communicative team of professionals, who are actively working as part of a multi-agency team, to support and empower at-risk children and young people, across the St Helens area.
- **Access to a car, and a full driving licence, is a requirement of this role.**

**About You**
- An excellent communicator, with the ability to effectively engage young people, and their parents or carers, handling sensitive and confidential issues with tact and diplomacy.
- Experience of planning, delivering, and evaluating support activities for and directly with young people.
- Experience of case management (assessment, action planning, reviews).
- Great organisational skills, with the ability to proactively evaluate and monitor progress against targets, to achieve action plan deadlines.
- Able to work in partnership with a variety of agencies to achieve agreed outcomes.

**Main Duties and Accountabilities**
- Undertaking one to one work with children and young people who are vulnerable to child exploitation (CE), and planning and delivering appropriate support plans, pathways, and interventions.
- Identifying and supporting access to additional or specialist services for young people and parents where necessary, to ensure that their needs are met, and risk factors are reduced.
- Completing all required monitoring information by set timescales, and correctly recording all interventions, contacts, and multi-agency correspondence.
- Offering educational awareness raising within the local authority, to improve risk reduction, and co-facilitating CE Awareness training.
- Developing and sustaining productive working relationships with referring agencies, such as working in partnership with Children’s Social Care, to facilitate support.
- Working with the Local Authorities, and their Local Safeguarding Children’s Board, to ensure positive media messages, and marketing of the service to young people.

Please click here to view the full Job Description.

**Qualifications**:

- Minimum 5 GCSE’s (grade C or above), or equivalent.
- Knowledge of Safeguarding, Health and Safety, and Risk Management procedures, and knowledge of the issues affecting young people who are at risk of CE.
- Access to a car, and a full driving licence.

Additional Information
**Salary**:£24,001 per annum
**Hours of work**:Full time, 37 hours per week
**Contract**:Fixed term, until 31st of March 2025
- **Access to a car, and a full driving licence, is a requirement of this role.**:

- You may be required to work flexible hours including evenings, weekends, or anti-social hours, if required.

See the benefits of working for Catch22 here.
- At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live._

Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.

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