Support Worker - Independent Child Trafficking Guardian

Available posts: 5 Areas covered:

ICTG North

ICTG Midlands

ICTG Wales

ICTG London

ICTG South

GAT

National Team

Purpose:

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 some 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 Guardian Support Workers:

• 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 Home-Based role but will involve extensive travel around the region to regularly meet with children and attend multi-agency meetings.

If you would like any further details please email nctsrecruitment@barnardos.org.uk

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.

Flexibility

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.

About Barnardo's At Barnardo's we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.
Barnardo's is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers. We actively encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within Barnardo's.