Exploitation Team Manager

Exploitation Team Manager -

G12: £55,662 - £59,490 per annum.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Exploitation Team Manager to join our Aspiring Futures Team in Walsall.

Walsall Children’s Social Care have created a service for exploited young people, with exploited young people. We have listened to what our exploited young people, families and professionals have said about what is needed and created a model of working based on this. Collectively, we are incredibly proud of what has been created and the positive impact the team have had with our exploited young people in Walsall.

The team ensure that our highest risk exploited young people receive one consistent worker, who works alongside the Children’s Services Team. No matter where a young person is within their social care journey, they will have one worker who will work in a relationship‑based, trauma‑informed way to seek to reduce the exploitation risks. Exploitation Risk Assessments are vital with a clear focus on context weighting to inform next steps and appropriate plans.

The same worker will complete all Return Home Conversations following a missing episode, enabling a rapport to be built which brings the ability to gather more rich and vital information which not only contributes to keeping that young person safe, but to mapping all exploitation risks across Walsall. We actively attend and advocate for our young people in all statutory meetings and contribute to wider planning, having an in‑depth understanding of our young people, the push and pull factors, behaviours and who they are as individuals.

We work closely with partner agencies, including but not limited to:

• Police
• Street Teams
• the Youth Justice Service
• Education
• Health
• the Violence Reduction Partnership
• Mentoring Services
• Detached Youth Work Services
• and Voluntary Organisations

We undertake MACE (Multi‑Agency Child Exploitation) Meetings on a monthly basis for all our high‑risk young people.

Daily Exploitation Triage is currently in place and oversees all age exploitation and missing episodes and is attended by partner agencies. This is chaired by the Team Manager or Assistant Team Manager on rotation.

Mapping of risks for individuals and across Walsall is completed by the exploitation coordinator utilising information gathered by the Aspiring Futures Practitioners and wider Children’s Services.

The same offer which we deliver to our high risk exploited young people is delivered to our medium risk exploited young people by Street Teams, who we work seamlessly alongside. Our low risk exploited young people have their needs met through our internal Youth Worker offer.

You will be Social Work Qualified;
Social Work England Registered. You will be an experienced Team Manager who is enthusiastic, passionate and knowledgeable about reducing exploitation. You will be professional, dynamic and lead with care and compassion. You will understand risk management, context weighting and push and pull factors which contribute to our children becoming exploited. You will be comfortable with data analysis and report writing and will be able to work well with partner agencies both internally and externally.

You will be comfortable with chairing meetings including Complex Strategy Discussions and able to manage and direct resource appropriately. Above all you will be driven to make positive changes for our exploited young people in Walsall and invested in the development of the staff and service. If this is you, we are excited to hear from you.

Our staff are our biggest resources, and we want to invest in them! We have a great range of benefits available to us as Council employees. These benefits include Discounts for holidays, groceries, clothes, electrics and gym membership;
Financial benefits, Expenses, Flexible leave and Professional Development.

Our model of work is hybrid, you will work 2-3 days office based (or as required) and the ability to work from home. We also offer a 9 day per fortnight pattern of working for Team Managers. As a qualified Social Worker, you will also be entitled to a 15% retention payment after 2 years in post.

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