Trauma-Informed Adolescent Safeguarding Social Worker

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

Job summary

Tameside Council is seeking a Social Worker to join the Complex Safeguarding Team at Manchester Road, Ashton-under-Lyne. You will assess and support adolescents at risk of harm using trauma-informed, contextual safeguarding approaches and work across families, schools and partners.

You will lead specialist assessments, develop intervention plans, and contribute to multi-agency safeguarding processes, ensuring compassionate, evidence-based practice and positive outcomes for young people.

Qualifications

• Significant post-qualifying experience within children's social care or safeguarding.
• Understanding of adolescent development and impact of trauma, exploitation and social adversity on behaviour.
• Experience with extra-familial harm, exploitation, or contextual safeguarding concerns.
• Knowledge of trauma-informed and relationship-based practice; ability to engage hard-to-reach young people.
• Understanding of transitional safeguarding challenges as young people move to adulthood.
• Strong assessment, analysis, risk management and multi-agency working skills.
• Commitment to anti-racist, anti-oppressive, and culturally responsive practice.
• Resilience and professional curiosity in high-risk situations.

Responsibilities

• Work with adolescents and young people at risk of CCE, CSE, county lines, missing episodes and online harm.
• Build trusting relationships through persistent, strengths-based, trauma-informed practice.
• Undertake specialist assessments and develop targeted intervention plans across family, peers, education, community and online environments.
• Apply contextual safeguarding to understand extra-familial harm contexts with partner agencies.
• Embed transitional safeguarding for older adolescents and young adults to ensure continuity of support.
• Collaborate with parents, carers, families, communities and professionals to strengthen protective factors.
• Contribute to Child in Need, Child Protection, Public Law Outline and looked-after processes where appropriate.
• Participate in disruption activity and multi-agency safeguarding responses with police, education, health and others.
• Produce high-quality assessments, reports and court statements.

Skills

Complex safeguarding expertise

Adolescent development understanding

Trauma-informed practice

Multi-agency collaboration

Risk assessment & management

Job description

Tameside Council is seeking a Social Worker to join the Complex Safeguarding Team at Manchester Road, Ashton-under-Lyne. You will assess and support adolescents at risk of harm using trauma-informed, contextual safeguarding approaches and work across families, schools and partners.

You will lead specialist assessments, develop intervention plans, and contribute to multi-agency safeguarding processes, ensuring compassionate, evidence-based practice and positive outcomes for young people.