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