Sessional Missing from Care Practitioner North West

The Children's Society; Wythenshawe; Sur place; GBP 29 000 - 42 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Pension matching up to 8%

Free counselling service

Professional development opportunities

2 days paid volunteering per year

Résumé du poste

The Children’s Society is seeking a dedicated professional to deliver the Missing From Home Return Interview Service within England and Wales. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to safeguard missing children and respond to at-risk youth with appropriate support.

Experience with vulnerable children, risk assessment, and coordinating with various agencies is essential. The role emphasizes safeguarding, anonymised shortlisting, and flexible collaboration across services.

Qualifications

• Experience of working directly with vulnerable children.
• Experience with assessing needs and risk and planning interventions.

Responsabilités

• Complete Missing from Home Return Interviews with children and young people.
• Co-work interventions with multidisciplinary team and other agencies.
• Ensure safeguarding procedures are followed and supervised appropriately.

Connaissances

Return interviews

Assess needs & risk

Caseload management

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Safeguarding procedures

Description du poste

To deliver the Missing From Home Return Interview Service, the Successful applicant will work within a multi-disciplinary approach in response to children missing from care. Ensuring that children and young people who are at risk of or are missing, are kept safe and supported to reduce or prevent missing episodes.

About us

The Children's Society has been helping children and young people in this country for over 140 years. We deliver essential local services that provide safe, trusted support to children and young people during times of significant need.

Our Youth Impact domain creates impact for children and young people. With highly skilled and experienced staff working across England and Wales, we provide direct support to children, young people, parents and carers, as well as conduct research and influence Government to make changes. We also provide training for professionals. Our value driven team change the lives of children in this country for the better - and with your help and expertise, tomorrow we can support even more.

Key skills

• To complete Missing from Care Return Interviews with children and young people.
• Assess needs and risk, providing short term support
• Take specific responsibility for direct work with referred children and young people and manage own caseload
• To co-work interventions with colleagues from the multi-disciplinary team and those in other agencies
• To ensure all safeguarding procedures are followed and supervised appropriately

The Children's Society is committed to safeguarding and protection of the children and young people we work with. As such, our safer recruitment process includes a Basic or Enhanced DBS check, 5 years of references, and additional vetting checks relevant to the role. We have a comprehensive range of policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices across all areas of our organisation.

In support of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, shortlisting is carried out on an anonymised basis. Personal details are hidden from the shortlisting panel, and candidates are referenced by a candidate number only. As part of this process, we ask that your CV is anonymised before submission - this means removing personal information such as your name, contact details, age, and any other identifying details.

Experience

Experience of working directly with vulnerable children particularly Who are missing and in care of local authorities

• Substantial experience of undertaking assessments of need and risk and planning interventions.

Benefits

• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• We match up to 8% pension
• Free counselling service
• Opportunities to develop and widen your skills
• 2 days of paid volunteering time per annum to support another part of the organisation