Missing from Home Worker, Merseyside

Missing from Home Worker, Merseyside 
Pay rate £20.19 per hour  
Contract role 
 
Pertemps are recruiting for an experienced Missing from Home Worker in the Merseyside area. 
The purpose of the role is to 

• Provide return home interview for children and young people who are reported missing as per the Missing from Home protocol and Statutory Duty. 

• Taking effective action to enable all children to have the best outcomes by contributing to and influencing care planning for children.  

• To provide independent advocacy for children who experience missing episodes.  

• To identify intelligence and ensure that it is passed onto the allocated Social Worker and Police. 

The Main Duties include: 

• To make contact, engage and be proactive with regard to all young people who run away and carry out child-centred interviews.  

• To ensure the reasons, push and pull factors impacting on the child and young person is recorded and influences care planning.  

• To provide a flexible creative response to engaging with children and young people. 

• To keep and maintain accurate records.  

• To educate and advise young people as a preventative measure on the dangers and risks of running away.  

• Ensure that children and young people are effectively assessed, planned for, engaged with, and suitably reviewed in a manner that enhances the likelihood of their behaviour changing. Monitor and record service activity and data in accordance with statutory regulations.  

• To ensure that the needs of the child are understood in the context of the families in which they live, and to ensure that the needs of those families are recognised and are being met by service providers. 

 
Please get in touch for more information. 
 
This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:- 

• A Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to 

• An easy registration process (all done online) 

• Referral schemes and incentives  

• Ongoing compliance managed for you 

• Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more. 

Please contact Graham Leatham on 07484 513909 or email graham.leatham@pprsocialcare.co.uk for more information.  
We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this isn’t the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO, BIA, MASH, LAC, Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager