Missing From Home Worker

JOB: Missing From Home Worker – Sefton MBC CONTRACT: 36 hours per week, Monday to Thursday, 9-5.pm, Friday 9 – 4pm JOB PURPOSE: • To provide return home interview for children and young people who are reported missing as per the Missing from Home protocol and Statutory Duty.  • Taking effective action to enable all children to have the best outcomes by contributing to and influencing care planning for children.  • To provide independent advocacy for children who experience missing episodes.  • To identify intelligence and ensure that it is passed onto the allocated Social Worker and Police.  MAIN DUTIES:  1. To make contact, engage and be proactive with regard to all young people who run away and carry out child-centred interviews.  2. To ensure the reasons, push and pull factors impacting on the child and young person is recorded and influences care planning.  3. To provide a flexible creative response to engaging with children and young people.  4. To keep and maintain accurate records.  5. To educate and advise young people as a preventative measure on the dangers and risks of running away.  6. Ensure that children and young people are effectively assessed, planned for, engaged with, and suitably reviewed in a manner that enhances the likelihood of their behaviour changing.  7. Monitor and record service activity and data in accordance with statutory regulations.  8. To ensure that the needs of the child are understood in the context of the families in which they live, and to ensure that the needs of those families are recognised and are being met by service providers.  9. To act as a representative of the service in a range of different environments and convey a positive image of the service.  10. To provide additional support as required within the remit of the service.  11. Promote and develop the use of Young Peoples Centres by other agencies and local partners Please note these are agency positions and the contracts are 3 months at a time, renewal has to be sought quarterly over the year. Why work with We do Social Work? New ‘Faster Pay’ service getting you paid more quickly Twice weekly payroll Free DBS and compliance service Your own dedicated friendly consultant with extensive social work knowledge Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK Refer a friend “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £250 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place* “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us* We Do Social Work is an equal opportunities employer and is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.  Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes* Please contact (email address removed) / (phone number removed) for further assistance