Missing from Home Project Worker

The Missing from Home Project Worker role is to support Tameside with ensuring that young people who go missing are independently interviewed within 72 hours of notification. The service is central to Tameside's strategy to safeguard young people from harm and vulnerability. We are looking for a committed individual who can successfully engage young people, and is comfortable working in close collaboration with statutory partners. You will be joining our dynamic, ambitious team, providing a key role in engaging young people often for the first time. Young people are listened to carefully and safety plans developed to help eliminate the risks of going missing alongside strategies to steer them on a brighter path.

We aim to reduce the numbers of missing episodes and prevent potential harm.You will also attend statutory meetings when needed and the monthly missing from home panel meeting in order to give updates of those young people that frequently go missing.

The service operates within a wider framework of a contextual safeguarding provision in Tameside.

We are looking for candidates with excellent interpersonal, communication and administration skills, as well as the ability to build positive relationships with children, young people and families., Our employees' skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. This position is subject to Enhanced with Barred List Disclosure Procedures.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English.

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.