Trauma-Informed Adolescent Safeguarding Social Worker

Tameside MBC; Droylsden; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Tameside MBC is seeking an experienced Social Worker to join the Complex Safeguarding Team in Manchester. You will work with adolescents and young people at risk of extra-familial harm, applying trauma-informed, relationship-based practice to assess needs and plan targeted interventions.

Across partnerships with families, schools, police and health services, you will deliver high-quality assessments, reports and court statements, ensuring compassionate, outcomes-focused support for vulnerable

Qualifications

• Significant post-qualifying experience within children's social care or complex safeguarding.
• Understanding of adolescent development and the ways trauma and exploitation influence behaviour.
• Experience with extra-familial harm and contextual safeguarding concerns.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with adolescents and young people at risk of CCE, CSE, county lines, missing episodes and online harm.
• Perform specialist assessments and develop targeted intervention plans addressing harm across family, peers, education, community and online environments.
• Apply contextual safeguarding principles to understand and respond to the contexts where harm occurs, coordinating with partners to improve safety beyond the home.
• Embed transitional safeguarding approaches when working with older adolescents and young adults to ensure continuity of support.
• Collaborate with parents, carers, families, communities and professionals to strengthen protective factors and drive sustainable change.
• Contribute to Child in Need, Child Protection, Public Law Outline and Children Looked After processes where appropriate.
• Participate in multi-agency safeguarding responses alongside police, education, health, youth justice, housing, and voluntary sector partners.
• Produce high-quality assessments, reports and court statements, ensuring interventions are evidence-based and outcome-focused.

Skills

Complex safeguarding

Trauma-informed practice

Adolescent development knowledge

Multi-agency collaboration

Risk assessment

Education

Qualified social worker

Job description

Tameside MBC is seeking an experienced Social Worker to join the Complex Safeguarding Team in Manchester. You will work with adolescents and young people at risk of extra-familial harm, applying trauma-informed, relationship-based practice to assess needs and plan targeted interventions.

Across partnerships with families, schools, police and health services, you will deliver high-quality assessments, reports and court statements, ensuring compassionate, outcomes-focused support for vulnerable