Exploitation Youth Worker

2 months ago

Aylesbury, United Kingdom Buckinghamshire Council Full time

**Salary**

£32,598 - £33,911

**Reference number**

BUC11385

**Contract type**

Permanent

**Working hours**

Full Time

**Level of DBS check required**

Enhanced with Barred List

**Date posted**

13 May 2024, 11 p.m.

**Application deadline**

28 May 2024

**Interview date**

10 Jun 2024

**Overview**:
We currently have an exciting opportunity within our Missing and Exploitation Hub for an Exploitation Youth Worker to deliver youth work interventions with children and young people at risk of and experiencing exploitation whilst supporting other professionals who are working directly with these individuals.

This could include working in universal settings, including schools and youth centres as well as outreach work in the community. The focus is to work in a contextual way to safeguard children who are at risk of extra familial harm.

**About us**:
Buckinghamshire Council is a relatively new organisation that combines the strengths and expertise of the previous five councils in the county to create positive change for local people, communities, and businesses. We are firmly focused on the future and have made a clear commitment to serve residents better and to provide stronger representation for Buckinghamshire, both locally and nationally.

Buckinghamshire is an ambitious, rapidly growing county, and our economy is one of the strongest in the country. It is an area of outstanding natural beauty and ranks as one of the top rural areas to live in the UK and yet it is incredibly well connected
- only an hour from London on the train. The county has a rich history and heritage and is the birthplace of the international Paralympic movement.

We are looking for motivated, ambitious and inspiring people to join us on our journey. You will be entitled to a range of different benefits to make sure you are happy both at work and at home.

**About the role**:
**The successful post holder will**:

- Engage vulnerable children and young people, using a trauma informed and relationship based approach.
- Work alongside Social Workers, Youth Offending Service Officers and other partners as part of a multi-agency team around the child.
- Manage a caseload of children to safeguard them from exploitation and extra familial harm.
- Nurture and promote places of safety with a view to increasing safety in the community.
- Ensure recording is up to date and accurate.
- Promote the delivery of Contextual Safeguarding approaches to exploitation and extra familial harm.
- Provide advice, training and consultation to other professionals within Children’s Social Care on working with young people at risk from extra familial harm.
- Attend multi agency meetings and undertake various additional tasks as part of the duty role.

**Please see job description for further detail.**

**About you**:

- Significant experience of working with young people and families
- Good knowledge of processes, procedures and issues relating to children and young people who experience harm outside of the home.
- Possess proven knowledge, skills and experience of working with those who are vulnerable to exploitation/serious violence/extra familial harm.
- Proven ability to carry out assessments (including risk assessments) and develop suitable plans to safeguard.
- Proven ability to advise and guide young people to encourage development and to access services which encourage positive engagement in community settings.
- Proven ability to influence and negotiate with a range of key stakeholders; including, but not limited to, children/young people, parents/carers, professionals.
- Working knowledge of legislation relevant to protecting children at risk of and experiencing Child Exploitation.
- Sound literacy and numeracy skills with accurate record keeping and report writing.
- Effective planning and workload management skills.

**Please see attached job description for full person specification.**

**Other information**:
**Closing date**: Midnight on Tuesday 28th May 2024

**Interview date**: Monday 10th June 2024

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

- All unspent cautions and convictions cautions
- All adult cautions and spent convictions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020). For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance, the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) guidance or Ministry of Justice (MOJ) guidance (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).

**Our values and culture**:
We have a set of values, which our employees have chosen, that represent what we are - Proud, Ambitious, Collaborative and Trustworthy.

By joining Buckinghamshire Council, you can expect:

- a fair and inclusive culture
- the chance to really make a difference to those around you
- health and well-being initiatives including an Employe

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