| Your new organisation |
| An exciting opportunity has arisen within Southend-on-Sea Borough Council for a fixed term Child Exploitation Team Manager (maternity cover) within the Adolescent Intervention and Prevention Team, which is a new multidisciplinary team within Children's Services. They are focused on supporting those children identified as being most at risk of criminal or sexual exploitation. The Team works closely with other providers within the borough, including statutory social care, Police, Safeguarding Children Board, schools and other teams within Youth and Family Support Services (YFSS), amongst others, to prevent the sexual exploitation of children. The team is responsible for working with all young people identified as being at risk of CSE in Southend and includes offering information and advice to other services, working within the early help framework, undertaking section 47 investigations and managing child protection plans. |
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| Your new role |
| This is a duel post involving team management responsibility for a small number of Social Workers and the other part of the role is being the operational lead for Child Exploitation within the Children's Services workforce and undertaking the Child Exploitation work plan. You will be providing a professional service within the Social Work Teams by being responsible for the efficient and cost-effective provision of a needs-led service to children, young people and their families. Providing high quality social work practice advice and input to Team Managers, Senior Practitioners, Social Workers, Children & Families Workers and Administrative staff. In particular to provide advice, support and training in relation to Child Exploitation, Honour Based Abuse, Female Genital Mutilation and Forced Marriage. |
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| What you'll need to succeed |
| To be successful in this position you must be a HCPC qualified Social Worker with a keen interest and strong knowledge of child exploitation and related issues. This is a specialist position that requires someone who is able to manage a small team of Social Workers with complex cases, but also be the operational lead for child exploitation for the local authority and undertake training in child exploitation across the partnership and work on the LSCB Exploitation workplan. |
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