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Company Description
At Catch22, we are proud of our reputation as a modern and progressive employer. Our 1,300 colleagues and 300 volunteers work at every stage of the social welfare cycle, supporting over 60,000 individuals from cradle to career. Our work spans education, social justice, and rehabilitation, children's social care, family support, social action, and getting people into work.
The Case Worker role will undertake 121 work with boys and young males under 18yrs old supported by Catch22’s Pan Merseyside Missing & Child Exploitation Service
Job Description
- Build relationships and develop referral pathways specifically for boys and young men to increase the number of boys and young men accessing the service.
- Upskill professionals to understand and recognise indicators and risk factors for boys & young men who are at risk of/experiencing sexual exploitation.
- Undertake one to one work with children and young people vulnerable to CSE. Work in partnership with Children's Social Care to facilitate support where CSE is highlighted as a risk.
- Work with Stakeholders to contribute towards the collation of soft intelligence / information on CSE issues / trends.
- Proactively utilise safeguarding protocols to information share and protect children from harm.
- Offer Educational Awareness raising within local authority Inc. placement providers, education, parents and young people.
- Develop and sustain productive working relationships with referring agencies to ensure the regular and appropriate referrals are received.
- Manage a caseload undertaking assessments of young people’s needs and gathering all necessary information to develop intervention plans, vulnerability plans, within set timescales.
- Plan and deliver interventions in accordance with Catch22 policies and procedures and local authority guidance, to ensure effective use of resources and targets are achieved.
- Develop and sustain productive working relationships with referring agencies to ensure the regular and appropriate referrals are received.
- Develop materials and deliver activities to develop resilience and safety for young people.
- To work with the Local Authorities and their Local Safeguarding Children’s Board to establish strong multi-agency safeguarding partnerships.
- Record all intervention, contacts and multi-agency correspondence in accordance with the service specification within prescribed Management Information Systems
- Complete all required monitoring information by set timescales to assist the production of feedback reports to funders and stakeholders to track and monitor progress against outcome targets, KPIs etc.
Qualifications
- Extensive experience of working directly with young people on level 2- 4 on the continuum of need presenting a variety of support needs
- Experience of planning, delivering and evaluating support activities for and with young people and their carers
- Experience and understanding of case management including assessment, action planning and reviews.
- Experience and application of Health and Safety and risk management procedures.
- Experience of working in partnership with a variety of agencies to achieve agreed outcomes.
- Extensive experience and understanding of Child Protection including Safeguarding processes and procedures.
- Experience of writing good quality reports that demonstrate the impact of work undertaken YP on a 1:1 basis.
For further details, please see our full job description and person specification.
Additional Information
Salary: £27,500
Hours of work: 37
Contract: Permanent
- Access to a car, and a full driving licence, is a requirement of this role.
- You may be required to work flexible hours including evenings, weekends, or anti-social hours.
- This role is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
See the benefits of working for Catch22 here.
Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.
At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.
Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.
If you are applying for this role and are care experienced/care leaver, Catch22 offers a mentor to assist with the application process. Please contact
[email protected] if you would like to find out more about this support. This information will not be passed to the team recruiting for this position. For more information about the Propel Programme and a guide for candidates who wish to join the programme, please see here. You can also watch an animation on the programme here.
