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Job Description
1 Month Contract With A Local Authority
Job Purpose
- The role involves conducting timely Return Home Interviews (RHIs) with children and young people building trusting relationships over time and providing them with information advice and advocacy to protect against further missing episodes abuse or exploitation. It includes using insights from these interviews to help prevent future incidents identify risks and support disruption of exploitation. The role also coordinates Birmingham s response to missing children by acting as a central hub for information sharing and expertise raising awareness of the links between going missing and wider exploitation and supporting a consistent multi-agency safeguarding approach in partnership with the Children s Trust Birmingham Safeguarding Children Partnership and West Midlands Police.
Key Duties/Accountabilities
- To make an offer of a RHI to children allocated to you within a timely manner in a way that is appropriate to the child or young person.
- To provide RHIs to children who have returned to explore their reasons for going missing; explore the risks; share information about services available to help them; and to consider alternatives to going missing in the future
- The RHI service will be provided to all Birmingham children who have gone missing from home or from care. This may involve travel outside of Birmingham if a child s placement is outside of the city. The service may involve RHIs to children placed by other local authorities within Birmingham.
- A flexible approach is necessary to ensure that RHIs are conducted with children and young people at a time that will maximise their engagement.
- To complete a RHI report for allocated workers to provide them with information with a view to identifying any areas of concern reducing further missing episodes and to refer into CASS any children not allocated for whom there are safeguarding concerns.
- To produce and maintain written records statistics / data sets and reports as required.
- To work alongside the co-located Exploitation Hub and other professionals to identify and discuss missing still missing and found / returned children; and contribute to planning discussions around children who have frequent missing episodes. This may include attending strategy discussion and disruption planning meetings.
- To make recommendations as to what work is needed; and if unallocated consider whether any referrals could be made following the RHI to prevent escalation to statutory services.
- To act as point of contact for the workforce on missing children and the links to wider exploitation and provide specialist advice to a range of agencies
- To contribute to meetings (individual child s or general ones) and strategies regarding the missing themes or the individual plans for children so that children are safeguarded and services are developed.
- To take responsibility for own ongoing professional development in this area.
- To explore best practice / national research to inform local responses to missing children
- To build and establish partnership links with local and wider community organisations to enhance both disruption and diversion for children and young people
- To undertake any other duties that can reasonably be required.
Essential Experience Required
- Skilled in building trusting relationships with vulnerable young people through Return Home Interviews (RHIs).
- Experienced in identifying risks and using insights to support disruption of exploitation and prevent repeat missing episodes.
- Central in coordinating multi-agency safeguarding responses and information sharing for missing children.
Essential Qualifications Required
- General education is essential.
Additional Information To Note
- Working hours: 36 hours per week.
Employment Type
Full Time
