Support Worker

Support Worker
Missing from Home
Location: Merseyside
Pay rate:  £20.19 per hour

Our client is looking for Experienced  Support  Workers to join the My Space Protection Against Child Exploitation  Services within the  Vulnerable People team. In this role you will work as part of a multi-agency team delivering creative interventions for children and young people assessed as suffering harm through Exploitation.  To provide intensive, evidenced based interventions for children and young people using a Trusted Adult, Child First and trauma informed approach.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore you are required to declare any convictions, cautions, reprimands and final warnings that are not ‘protected’ (i.e., filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2013. 

Perfect candidate will be:

• Relevant social care qualification
• Flexible and forward thinking in approach.
• Work in a Social Services Directorate or other Statutory or Voluntary Agency.
• Constantly striving for continuous improvement to provide the best outcomes for individuals and their families
• Able to use excellent mediation and negotiation skills on behalf of service users.
• Work with a range of client groups within an Agency
• Highly skilled at building meaningful relationships with children and families to engage them in assessments and plans
• Committed to providing our service users with a high-quality service
• Experienced in working in a multi-disciplinary, interagency basis
• Knowledge of legislation relating to general social work practice

In this role you will:
 

• Provide return home interview for children and young people who are reported missing as per the Missing from Home protocol and Statutory Duty.
• Take effective action to enable all children to have the best outcomes by contributing to and influencing care planning for children.
• Provide independent advocacy for children who experience missing episodes.
• Identify intelligence and ensure that it is passed onto the allocated Social Worker and Police.

• Make contact, engage and be proactive with regard to all young people who run away and carry out child-centred interviews.
• Ensure the reasons, push and pull factors impacting on the child and young person is recorded and influences care planning.
• Provide a flexible creative response to engaging with children and young people.
• 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. 8. 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.
• Act as a representative of the service in a range of different environments and convey a positive image of the service.
• Provide additional support as required within the remit of the service.
• Promote and develop the use of Young Peoples Centres by other agencies and local partners.

 
 
This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:-
Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to, easy registration process, referral schemes and incentives, ongoing compliance managed for you, prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.
 
This role is ideally located for those travelling from Liverpool, Birkenhead, Widnes, Warrington, Wirral, Huyton, Wallasey, Sefton, Wigan, Southport, St Helens, Runcorn, Widnes, Chester, Queensferry, Chester, Preston, Blackpool, Wrexham and Skelmersdale

We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this is not the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO (Independence Reviewing Officer), BIA (Best Interest Assessor), MASH, Children Looked After, MASH, Safeguarding, Duty & Assessment,  Support Worker, Children in Need, Child protection,  EHCP, children in care, Vulnerable People, Children’s Social Work, Children with Disabilities, Fostering, youth justice practitioner,  Adult Social Work, Long Term, Mental Health,  Hospital Discharge,   Homeless Intervention, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager.