Independent Child Trafficking Guardian Wales
Job description
Barnardo's National Counter Trafficking Service runs several different services across England and Wales. This includes the Independent Child Trafficking Guardianship Service, a statutory provision set out in Section 48 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
Do you want to improve the lives of young people affected by modern slavery? Do you have immigration, social care or criminal justice experience? Are you ready to join a passionate growing team and step up to this challenge? If your answers are yes, we want to hear from you.
Independent Child Trafficking Guardians:
- Work directly alongside young people who do not have a figure of parental responsibility for them in the UK, guiding them through immigration, social care and criminal justice processes
- Support professionals, including Social Workers, Police, Youth Offending Workers Foster Carers and Residential Support Workers, to identify young people exploited through modern slavery, meet their needs and keep them safe
- Ensure that every young person in the Service is referred into the National Referral Mechanism (NRM)
- Assist in enabling young people access to effective legal or other advice, including by appointing and instructing legal representation as needed
- Enable young people to build safe networks of support and work with professionals to disrupt unsafe networks
- Encourage and assist young people to access growth opportunities and develop their talents and skills
This is a Hybrid Workinh role but will involve extensive travel around the region to regularly meet with children and attend multi-agency meetings.
Areas covered:
ICTG - North, Midlands, Wales, London, South, GAT, National Team
Additional information:
Available posts: 5
When completing your application, please make clear your skills, knowledge and experience in relation to the Job Description, Person Specification and Additional Information document.
If you require any further details please email [email protected]
Barnardo's offers a hybrid working model covered under our `Work from Anywhere' Framework, therefore vacancies advertised with this as an opportunity are open for applicants to either work from home or any location within the UK, including Barnardo's Hub/Office that is a reasonable distance from your home address.
Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which should be in place by 1st April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to grow and develop in their career at Barnardo's.
