Child Trafficking Advocate (North East)

Role:               Child Trafficking Advocate

Based:            Home Based with travel across the North East

Rate:                  £15 - 18 per hour, depending on experience

Start Date:      September 2024

Duration:        6 months ongoing (strong possibility of becoming a permanent opportunity)

Hours:             Full Time

Our client, one of the UK’s leading Children’s Charities, is looking to recruit a Specialist Support Worker to join their Child Trafficking Service in the North East .

The service runs several national programmes supporting and advocating on behalf of children who have experienced trafficking and/ or exploitation across the UK.

What does the role involve?

• Managing a caseload of young people and providing them with practical and emotional support and advocating on their behalf as and when required
• Key working clients through both face to face and online support and using creative approaches to ensure the child/ young person is engaged, supported and receives an excellent standard of care
• Working in partnership with a range of partner agencies, professionals and statutory services including Social Services, the Police, Probation, Schools, CAMHS and various medical professionals
• Identifying and responding to safeguarding and working with partner agencies to deliver robust safeguarding responses
• Supporting children and young people through the criminal justice system and building strong rapport with them
• Working to foster independence for the children and supporting them to achieve their goals and integrate them into available networks of support
• Ensuring that the voice of the child is heard and remains at the heart of the service
• Contributing to national development work and feeding into national workstreams and raising awareness of the service and the issues facing these children

What are they looking for?

• Experience of working with children and/ or young people in particular those who have experienced Child Sexual Exploitation, Child Criminal Exploitation/ County Lines and/ or Trafficking
• A background in Social Services, the Police, Asylum and Immigration, Therapeutic Services, Domestic/ Sexual Abuse and/ or Children/ Family related services
• A knowledge of the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) and legislation relating to CYP, Modern Day Slavery and/ or Asylum and Immigration would be highly desirable
• Strong working knowledge of safeguarding and child protection
• Proven track record of working with a range of multi-agency partners and professionals

Having worked with this client for over ten years we would highly recommend them to any candidate – they have an excellent management team, offer numerous training and development opportunities and deliver high quality child focus services across the UK.

For more information, please call us on either (phone number removed) and ask to speak to Katie or Ria or email us your CV at (url removed)

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