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Role:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Child Trafficking Advocate
Based:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Home Based with travel across South London
Rate:              £16.5 to 19 per hour depending on pay status
Start Date:Â Â Â Â Â As soon as possible
Duration:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 6 months FTC
Hours:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Full Time -Â Home Based with travel across South London
 Our client, one of the UK’s leading Children’s Charities, is looking to recruit a Child Trafficking Advocate to join their service.
The service runs several national programmes supporting and advocating on behalf of children who have experienced trafficking and/ or exploitation across the UK
What does the role involve?
- Managing a caseload of young people and providing them with practical and emotional support and advocating on their behalf as and when required
- Key working clients through both face to face and online support and using creative approaches to ensure the child/ young person is engaged, supported and receives an excellent standard of care
- Working in partnership with a range of partner agencies, professionals and statutory services including Social Services, the Police, Probation, Schools, CAMHS and various medical professionals
- Identifying and responding to safeguarding and working with partner agencies to deliver robust safeguarding responses
- Supporting children and young people through the criminal justice system and building strong rapport with them
- Working to foster independence for the children and supporting them to achieve their goals and integrate them into available networks of support
- Ensuring that the voice of the child is heard and remains at the heart of the service
- Contributing to national development work and feeding into national workstreams and raising awareness of the service and the issues facing these childrenÂ
What are they looking for?
- Experience of working with children and/ or young people in particular those who have experienced Child Sexual Exploitation, Child Criminal Exploitation/ County Lines and/ or Trafficking
- A background in Social Services, the Police, Asylum and Immigration, Therapeutic Services, Domestic/ Sexual Abuse and/ or Children/ Family related services
- A knowledge of the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) and legislation relating to CYP, Modern Day Slavery and/ or Asylum and Immigration would be highly desirable
- Strong working knowledge of safeguarding and child protection
- Proven track record of working with a range of multi-agency partners and professionals
 Supporting Futures Consultancy acts as an employer and agency
Having worked with this client for over ten years we would highly recommend them to any candidate – they have an excellent management team, offer numerous training and development opportunities and deliver high quality child focus services across the UK.
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