TEAM: Children’s Section
LOCATION: Dover Atrium, Kent
GRADE: 3
HOURS: 35 hrs per week (average over 4 week rota)
One of the leading charities in the UK is looking to recruit a Support Worker.
The Children’s Section is responsible for delivering services to separated children seeking asylum and refugee children. The Section also leads on raising the profile of their clients and advocates on their behalf. Supporting this work, the Section also promotes good practice to statutory and voluntary agencies and seeks to influence government to national level.
This charity supports separated children across the country from their offices in Kent, London, Luton, Leeds and Birmingham.
This job will be based in Dover, providing a temporary safeguarding service for separated children and other vulnerable clients entering the country, ensuring that their basic needs are met.
The unit is reactive to the needs of clients, who may arrive at any time. It is therefore staffed on a 24 hour basis, and staff are expected to cover a variety of shifts.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, all convictions, cautions and bind-overs, including those regarded as ‘spent’, must be declared at the application stage. An offer of employment is subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check. Repeat checks are initiated every two years.
This post is funded by the Home Office and they require that the post-holder undergo a Counter Terrorism Check (CTC); an offer of employment is subject to this check.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- To work in the best interests of the child.
- To provide shift cover for separated children and other clients, such as families and vulnerable adults arriving in Dover, in a lone working capacity.
- To ensure all safeguarding issues are reported on time to all relevant agencies.
- To assess need basic needs of newly arrived clients and provide as appropriate.
- To respond to the unpredictable time of client arrival and plan workload accordingly.
- To work effectively with a range of statutory bodies that are part of the chain of responsibility for separated children, including the Home Office and Local Authority staff.
- To carry out effective handover, reporting all necessary information regarding the clients who use the unit.
- To carry out all work with regard to the charities organisational policies and procedures, in particular to adhere to the Safeguarding of Children policy and procedures.
- To provide a positive working role model for other colleagues and clients.
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