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A unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a focused engagement with children who have gone missing. Work will help in reducing future missing episodes, address contextual safeguarding risks and assess safeguarding concerns. The role requires extensive travel across the region, so flexibility and self-motivation and self-resilience are essential. While you’ll work autonomously, you’ll also be part of a multi-agency Exploitation Hub, collaborating with professionals and local organisations to address the root causes of missing episodes and wider contextual safeguarding concerns and contributing to making the lives of Birmingham children safe, fun, happy and full of opportunity.
Job Responsibility:
Offering high-quality return home interviews with children who go missing
Reducing future missing episodes
Addressing contextual safeguarding risks and assessing safeguarding concerns
Making recommendations to prevent further missing episodes
Managing own schedule and caseload
Extensive travel across the region
Part of a multi-agency Exploitation Hub, collaborating with professionals and local organisations
Requirements:
Experience in engaging young people in creative, non-judgemental ways
Being able to engage children effectively without the benefit of a pre-existing relationship
Strong safeguarding knowledge and the ability to identify and address risks
Confidence to work independently, prioritise tasks, and travel citywide
A caring, curious nature and a commitment to empowering children and amplifying their voices
Must reside within a suitable commutable distance around Birmingham
Have the correct right-to-work documents to work in the UK
No sponsorship provided
Appropriate level of Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check