Exploitation Support Worker

Tower Hamlets Council Pension Fund; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Tower Hamlets Council is seeking a dedicated individual for the Exploitation Service to support young people at risk of harm outside the home. This role involves working within a multi-agency team to prevent exploitation and serious youth violence, while promoting positive outcomes for children and families. Candidates should possess strong people skills and a caring nature, with a commitment to empowering practices.

Qualifications

• Experience working with young people at risk.
• Ability to work within a multi-agency team.
• Caring nature and commitment to anti-oppressive practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to young people and families at risk of exploitation.
• Raise awareness of issues related to serious youth violence.
• Work collaboratively with professionals and local organizations.

Skills

People skills

Engaging with young people

Creative problem-solving

Job description

Town Hall
160 Whitechapel Road
LONDON
E1 1BJ

We believe that the best place for children is to beraised within their own families, immediate or wider,wherever it is safe and appropriate to do so. In Tower Hamlets we are committed tobuildingrelationships and strengthening familiesby workingwithpeople in a compassionate and understandingway.

We areambitiousfor Tower Hamlets children andfamilies and endeavour for every child and youngperson to behealthy, safe and successful.

Tower Hamlets is a progressive, ambitious and diverse place to work. We place children and families at the heart of everything that we do and are relentless in our pursuit of positive outcomes for all.

Our Better Together Practice Framework is based on the ideas and concepts which underpin Restorative Practice and draws from other strength-based approaches, such as Systemic and Trauma Informed Practice.

Our C-Change approach: Connect, Curious, Community, Co-Produce, Collaborate, Check - sets out “6 C's” for our work with children, young people, their parents and carers and each other.

Your Role:

The co-located Exploitation Service have an exciting opportunity to work directly with young people who are at risk of harm outside of the home. The purpose of the role is to provide support to a cohort of young people and their families at risk of exploitation and serious youth violence. It is also to prevent offending and re-offending by young people by providing an effective service to young people and their carers. Furthermore, to raise awareness with children, families, communities and professionals around the issues of exploitation, serious youth violence and associated risks.

You will be working within the multi-agency Exploitation Team where we are developing an innovative harm outside the home approach to issues around exploitation, missing and serious youth violence. You will need good people skills and experience of engaging with young people effectively. You will have a caring nature and an ability to work creatively in an effort to engage children who are at risk of harm outside of the home. You will be able to work within a team approach and with other professionals and local organisations to identify and address the issues that young people face as a result of exploitation and serious youth violence, this will be underpinned by empowering, anti-oppressive, trauma informed and culturally competent practice (training will be provided for this).

Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.

Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.

We are a Disability Confident Employer, which means applicants who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the post are guaranteed an interview. Care experience has also been adopted by the Council as an additional protected characteristic.

We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.