Job Description

The Adolescent Safeguarding Team delivers the statutory social work functions for children and young people identified as requiring an assessment or plan to reduce their risk of harm outside the home (particularly peer on peer sexual abuse or violence and child criminal or sexual exploitation). This includes the range of social work from assessments and investigations to child in need, child protection or children in care plans, including court work when required. The team works closely with Police, Health and Education colleagues to ensure a robust multi agency response to young people. The team represents their children at Pre-MACE, Youth Integrated Offenders Management Panel and Missing panel to support timely responses and robust safety planning. We promote a front-facing and relationship based approach and expect workers to be seeing children and coming to the office at least 3 days per week and as needed. We support protected admin days on a fortnightly basis (as agreed with managers) and have a duty rota to ensure that workers can focus on their tasks and complete work in a timely manner while also supporting the team. The Adolescent Safeguarding Team is part of the Specialist Adolescent Service, working alongside Youth Justice, Health and Wellbeing and Project X teams who deliver a range of interventions with young people, supporting a holistic response to adolescent safeguarding.