Social Worker Exploitation Team

Location:
Cable Plaza, Brierley Hill, Dudley. DY5 1LW

Grade 9 and Grade 10 posts available

Dudley Exploitation Hub is a multi-disciplinary team that specialises in supporting children who are experiencing or at risk of experiencing harm outside the home. This includes sexual and criminal exploitation, modern slavery, youth criminality, and anti-social behaviour. The service provides a central triage point for referrals from across Dudley Borough and works with partners, our vulnerable young people and their families to disrupt and reduce risk through child‑centred safety planning and intensive intervention.

Our exploitation hub practitioners work intensively with young people assessed to be at high and medium risk of exploitation and also support Lead Practitioners from across the partnership, including Family Help and Youth Justice services, our health, education and police colleagues and our commissioned specialist exploitation services, to ensure that early vulnerabilities are recognised and early intervention and support is co‑ordinated.

Working alongside families using our Restorative Model of practice, we use family‑led decision making strategies and Motivational Interviewing skills to help families access creative and targeted support packages that will help to develop meaningful and lasting change for families. You will work with a small number of young people—no more than 10 at any one time—to lead interventions and support specific to the risks outside the home.

This may mean that you also co‑work with practitioners in our Family Help or Youth Justice service so that packages are well‑co‑ordinated, creative and reflect individual child and family needs.

You will also contribute to learning with colleagues by mentoring, coaching, and participating in reflective discussions.

Candidates should demonstrate sound knowledge around exploitation, missing and contextual safeguarding and have the ability to build and develop effective relationships with young people and families facing these complex challenges. A maximum caseload of no more than 10 young people at any one time is required. All applicants must be able to provide documentation to prove their right to work in the UK.