Blackpool Council
Location
Blackpool, Lancashire | United Kingdom
Job description
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week
Salary: Grade F SCP 19-24 £29,777 - £33,024
Closing Date: 18th March 2024 at 12 Noon
Blackpool is looking to recruit a full time family worker to work within the Awaken Team.
Awaken is a multi-agency Child Exploitation and Missing from Home service led by Children's Social Care, Police and Health who's primary function is to support children and young people who are at risk / victims of Child Criminal and / or Child Sexual Exploitation, and bring offenders to justice.
As a family worker on Awaken your work will be focused on building trusted meaningful relationships using a trauma informed approach in order to build on their resilience and strengths to bring around positive change. This will include completing 1:1 direct work sessions with children and young people around exploitation whilst attending relevant meetings such as CIN meetings, core groups, and children in our care review in order to share information in respect of Awakens intervention. You will also be responsible for being a single point of access to our education providers and support them with any concerns around there students where there are exploitation concerns.
You will also be responsible for the completion of missing from home return interviews as Awaken also leads Blackpool's missing from home service due to close link between missing from home and exploitation.
The team are looking to recruit a motivated individual with a diverse range of skills who are able to demonstrate a flexible approach and clear understanding of child exploitation and has a passion for working with Adolescents. Awaken is a busy team and we are looking for an enthusiastic, hard working and energetic Family Worker.
The Council operates an Introduce a Friend Scheme for a small number of agreed jobs in Children’s and Adults Services which encourages our Blackpool Council employees to initiate a successful introduction. This job is one of those roles, therefore if you have received a recommendation from a friend please ensure you select ‘Introduce a Friend’ when asked on the application where you heard about the vacancy.
Click here to view the Job Description.We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children/vulnerable adults. This post is subject to satisfactory reference history of at least two years, Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, medical clearance, evidence of any essential qualifications and proof of Right to Work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and amendments to the exemptions order, which mean that certain offences are ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed, guidance on the "filtering" of offences can be found at New filtering rules for DBS certificates (from 28 November 2020 onwards) - GOV.UK (
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£29.78k per annum
