Child Criminal Exploitation Practitioner - Creative Arts

Catch22 exists to help build a society where everyone has a good place to live, good people around them, and a fulfilling purpose. We call these our '3Ps'.

We achieve this in two ways. Firstly, we improve lives on the frontline through delivery of public services. Secondly, we use our knowledge to change 'the system', to fix the complex web that can trap and disempower those it was set up to help. With the heart of a charity and the mindset of a business, we are uniquely placed to deliver on this challenging agenda.

Young People and Families

Our Young People and Families (YPF) hub provides early intervention, targeted and specialist support services to those in crisis, leaving care, missing from home or with substance misuse or mental health problems. Our services support people no matter what their situation – and have demonstrated a high success rate.

Music to My Ears (MTME)

Music to My Ears (MTME) is a creative arts project that supports young people who are directly affected by CCE. We use music, photography, film making, and other creative arts, to engage young people and build trusted relationships. We are an outreach service, allowing us to work in diverse settings that are comfortable for young people.

About the role

You will deliver interventions to C&YP to enable them to develop and build their resilience, confidence, healthy relationships and make positive decisions. Using the medium of creative arts, you will aim to engage and start a dialogue where traditional “talking interventions” would not be appropriate.

Main Duties and Accountabilities:

• Undertaking one to one work with children and young people (C&YP) who are vulnerable to CCE. Undertaking assessments, and informing risk management plans, in liaison with the designated lead professionals and other relevant partners/agencies - holding a caseload of up to 10 young people at any one time, agreeing a care plan with young people, and reviewing this at regular intervals.
• Developing and sustaining productive working relationships with referring agencies, police, our partners at Surrey Risk Management Meetings (RMM’s), and other relevant agencies such as Surrey County Council Children’s Services, to facilitate support in association with the local CE protocol where CCE is identified.
• Recording all interventions, contacts, outcomes, and multi-agency correspondence, in accordance with the service specification Management Information Systems.
• Completing all required monitoring information by set timescales, to assist the production of feedback reports to funders and stakeholders.
• Completing Outcome Stars, to track and monitor progress against outcome targets and KPI’s, identifying individual needs and measuring distance travelled.
• Undertaking all relevant Child Exploitation Training, to inform best practice when working with young people at risk of CCE, inclusive of Solution Focussed Therapy.

Please click here to view the full Job Description.

• Minimum 5 GCSE’s (grade C or above), or equivalent.
• Skills, knowledge, and experience relevant for the job.
• Desirable: relevant qualification in youth/community work, social care, health, or education.

Salary: Up to £27,000- dependent on knowledge skills, and experience 
Hours of Work: 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent 
Flexibility: Opportunities for flexible homeworking available (main office is in Leatherhead)

*This role requires an up to date driving licence, access to a vehicle, MOT and business insurance.
*You may be required to work out of hours, including evenings and weekends where necessary, in addition to travel around Surrey on a daily basis, and occasional travel around the UK.
*Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check required.

Catch22 is committed to staff recruitment and retention and offers a range of training, learning and development opportunities. Your continuous professional development is as important to us as it is to you.

Catch22 is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice will be followed and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. The post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

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Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.

At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.

Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.

If you are applying for this role and are care experienced/care leaver, Catch22 offers a mentor to assist with the application process.  Please contact [email protected] if you would like to find out more about this support.  This information will not be passed to the team recruiting for this position. For more information about the Propel Programme and a guide for candidates who wish to join the programme, please see here. You can also watch an animation on the programme here.