Exploitation & Serious Youth Violence Co-ordinator (Maternity Cover)

Exploitation & Serious Youth Violence Co-ordinator

Fixed term contract - 1 year maternity cover

Hours: 35 per week

Grade L: £55,158 - £58,197 per annum inclusive of London Weighting

Benefits

You will also be eligible for an annual Travel card covering zones 2-3.

London Borough of Tower Hamlets Children’s Services is committed to making a difference to children, young people and families. To help achieve this we are looking for an experienced Child Exploitation and Serious Youth Violence Co-ordinator.

As a Child Exploitation and Serious Youth Violence Co-ordinator, you will be a key to the continued improvement of our response to children who are vulnerable to, or at risk of, child exploitation, serious youth violence and/or going missing.

For this role, you will need to be a Social Work England registered Social Worker with a professional social work qualification, or equivalent, and at least three years’ experience. You will contribute to the identification of unmet local needs and address blockages to an effective multi-agency response and development of services across London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

The postholder will have a role in developing the knowledge and skills of the workforce through advice, guidance and training. You will engage in strategic work providing professional support and challenge to improve local responses to CE, SYV and missing. In addition, you will take a lead role in the raising of professional awareness across Council services and partner agencies.

You will co-ordinate the Multi-Agency Child Exploitation Panel (and be involved in other associated meetings to this Panel). You will be responsible for the management and organisation of the MACE Panel, coordinating meetings, tracking cases and developing action plans.  

Your experience, personal and professional skills will enable you to work autonomously and equally as part of a team of other professionals. Good communication skills, confidence, self-motivation and enthusiasm is important to this role as is an excellent grasp of IT and data gathering. There will be an opportunity to contribute to the strategic direction of this service including policy and procedure developments as well as to be responsible for the day to day management of the tasks associated with this very important area of safeguarding work.

There is a requirement to be flexible and adaptable to meet the expectations of the role and deliver consistent high-quality service provision.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and will require an Enhanced DBS Check.

About you

·   Qualified Social Worker with at least 3 years experience

·   Skilled communicator – ability to accurately and confidently orally present to various audiences adapting style and delivery to suit audience participation and learning

·   High standard of written work and report production

·   Experience in working collaboratively across multi-agency networks and partnerships

·   Ability to apply research and data analysis skills to a wide range of crime and community safety issues

For further information about the role, please contact Sarah Hall on sarah.hall@towerhamlets.gov.uk.

Closing date: 15th September 2024

Application Details

This post is open to the following types of applicants: Redeployees/ Internal/ External

If this role is available to Internal employees only - this will include agency workers but does not include independent contractors or Skills Match trainees.

All applications should be made via our online application system. No CV’s or alternative forms of applications are accepted.

Internal employees should apply via the council's Intranet. External applicants apply via the Council's website www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/careers

Additional Details

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.