Senior Practitioner - Specialist Exploitation Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Practitioner within the Specialist Exploitation Team to work full time based in Redbridge.

The salary for this permanent Senior Practitioner role is up to £58,323per annum.

Main duties:

• Identify and assess exploitation risks (criminal & sexual), including county lines, gangs, trafficking and peer-on-peer abuse, using exploitation screening tools and intelligence from police, schools & partners.
• Undertake statutory safeguarding work under s17 (CIN) and s47 (CP) of the Children Act 1989, progressing cases to Child Protection & court where thresholds are met.
• Apply contextual safeguarding, assessing risks in places, peer groups and networks (schools, parks, transport hubs), not just within the family home.
• Work directly with young people, building trusted relationships, completing safety planning, disruption work, return-home interviews and motivational interventions to reduce harm.
• Coordinate multi-agency responses, including chairing or contributing to MASE panels, working closely with police, youth justice, education, health and specialist exploitation services.
• Support and advice families & carers, helping them understand exploitation risks, strengths protective factors and manage complex behaviours.
• Lead on disruption and protection planning, including intelligence-led actions, civil orders where appropriate, and escalation to legal planning meetings and care proceedings when required.
• Maintain robust recording and analysis, evidencing risk, patterns of exploitation and outcomes to inform safeguarding and strategic responses.

Requirements of this Senior Practitioner Job.

• Degree or Equivalent in Social Work.
• Current Social Work England Registration.
• Post Qualifying Social Work Experience.

Contact:
This Senior Practitioner job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning 'Best Candidate Care' at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.