Disrupting exploitation Insight & engagement officer

37 hours per week (including some evenings and weekends)

Salary: £23,855.76 per annum – with progression up to £26,506.74 per annum

(Funded until 31 January 2024)

Location: The Big Peg/ Lancaster Circus Birmingham

Are you interested in joining an award-winning national programme working to disrupt the exploitation of children and young people?

This role will support the identification of patterns and problems in the system that responds to young people and action solutions to disrupt exploitation. The disrupting exploitation team in Birmingham sit as part of the Birmingham EmpowerU hub This role will support the identification of patterns and problems in the system that responds to young people and action solutions to disrupt exploitation.

Interested If so – please read on!

The Disrupting Exploitation Programme is a project that supports children and young people (CYP), aged from 10-18 years who are at risk of or who are being exploited. This is an innovative programme combining high quality one-to-one work with young people and their families, with systems change work. Our systems change work is focused on the policies, procedures, contexts, and cultures around young people to improve the response to children in comparable situations in the future.

The programme seeks to explore barriers and enablers affecting young people’s safety and the risk of harm posed by child exploitation. The service supports CYP from early intervention and those with more complex needs; for example, risk of school exclusion, criminal convictions, trafficking and being missing from home.

The Children’s Society has been helping children and young people in this country for over 140 years. We run local services that support children when they are at their most vulnerable and in desperate need of help. We’re there for children, every step of the way.

This role sits within our Youth Impact domain, which works to provide one-to-one and group support for children who urgently need support. Your role will be to help us maintain and develop innovative practice to support our work in this programme and other services around the country.

We are currently looking for someone with substantial experience in working with vulnerable young people and their families to join our dynamic, ambitious team.

A key part of this role will be your ability to motivate and lead a team of youth, parenting and systems change practitioners, oversee systems change projects, work with key partners and stakeholders, manage changes in priorities and possess the flexibility to respond accordingly.

To be successful in this role, you must have:

• Experience of preparing documents and plans that are informed by data analysis
• Excellent experience in, and knowledge of key principles in relation to safeguarding, child exploitation, youth justice, trafficking, health and safety, dynamic risk management, date protection, quality practice and professional boundaries.
• Sound knowledge of professional networks and partners; Social Care, Youth Offending Teams, Police, The Youth Service, CAMH’s, Schools, Housing etc and how these operate.
• A good awareness of systems change approaches and issues facing children, young people and their families, impacting on their ability to navigate systems.
• Experience engaging, facilitating, and training professionals and advocating for young people using youth participation.
• A strong commitment to equality and diversity in working relationships and practice.

Benefits

Family-friendly policies: Including enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave.

Season ticket loan: Interest free loan for annual or quarterly season tickets for public transport to and from work.

Cycle to work scheme: Save up to 39% on the cost of a new bike and spread the cost across the year.

Pension: Stakeholder pension scheme with company-matched employee contributions of up to 8%.

Death in service benefit: Four times annual salary for all employees.

Discounted health scheme: Simply health cash plan – 20% discounted rate on healthcare such as dental, optical and chiropody for yourself and your children.

Free confidential counselling service: Available to all staff and volunteers

‘Xtras’: Employee discount scheme offering a range of savings across groceries, fuel, clothing, and holidays.

ABOUT THE CHILDREN’S SOCIETY

The Children’s Society runs over 100 local services that help thousands of young people who desperately need our support, and we campaign to get laws and policies changed to make children’s lives happier and safer.

Every day we’re changing the lives of children in this country for the better – and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more.

The Children’s Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.

Therefore, candidates applying for work in our Youth Impact Domain will be required to complete an “Employment history_template” document prior to interview. The fully completed document should be loaded by the candidate at the point of uploading your CV.

The closing date for applications is midnight on Tuesday 25th April 2023. If, after 14 days, we have received enough applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy on Tuesday 11th April 2023.

Interviews will be held on a date TBC