Child Sexual Exploitation Social worker

CHILD EXPLOITATION & CSE EXPERIENCE ESSENTIAL

We are seeking an experienced Child Exploitation Social Worker to join a specialist Young People's Safeguarding service in Peterborough.

This role is specifically suited to a Social Worker with strong, demonstrable experience working with children and young people affected by exploitation, particularly Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE).

PLEASE NOTE:
Previous hands-on experience working with Child Exploitation and CSE is ESSENTIAL. Candidates without this specific experience will be rejected.

You will work with children and young people experiencing complex safeguarding risks, with a particular focus on child exploitation and CSE
.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Managing a statutory caseload across Children in Need (CIN), Child Protection (CP) and Children in Care (CIC).
• Working directly with young people at risk of or experiencing Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) and other forms of exploitation.
• Undertaking comprehensive safeguarding assessments and identifying exploitation risks.
• Developing and implementing effective safety and risk management plans.
• Completing direct work with children, young people and families
  .
• Building trusted relationships with young people who may be reluctant to engage with professionals.
• Responding to complex safeguarding concerns and escalating risks appropriately.
• Working closely with police, education, health, youth services and other partner agencies.
• Contributing to multi-agency safeguarding meetings and strategy discussions.
• Preparing high-quality assessments, reports and statutory documentation.
• Ensuring the child's voice, wishes and feelings remain central to all safeguarding activity.
• Supporting young people to reduce their vulnerability to exploitation and achieve improved outcomes.

We are looking for a qualified Social Worker who has recent and substantial experience of child exploitation work
.

You MUST have:

• A Social Work qualification and current Social Work England registration.
• Significant experience within children's safeguarding
  .
• Direct experience working with Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE).
• Experience supporting children and young people affected by child exploitation
  , including identifying vulnerabilities, assessing risk and implementing safeguarding plans.
• Experience of statutory CIN, CP and/or CIC work.
• Strong experience undertaking direct work with young people and families.
• Excellent understanding of safeguarding and contextual safeguarding.
• Experience working within complex multi-agency safeguarding environments.

This is a Child Exploitation-focused Social Worker role.

We are specifically looking for candidates who have hands-on experience of working with children and young people affected by CSE and/or child exploitation.

Candidates who only have general children's social work experience, but cannot demonstrate specific Child Exploitation/CSE experience, will NOT be considered or submitted.

If you have specialist experience working with CSE, criminal exploitation, county lines, contextual safeguarding or vulnerable adolescents
, we would be particularly interested in hearing from you.