Gangs & Exploitation Outreach Worker

Seven Social Care is looking for a Gangs & Exploitation outreach worker to fill an exclusive opportunity in Hammersmith & Fulham.

 We have opportunities available for up to 12 months and the pay is £29.94 per hour.

 The Hiring manager is looking for someone who can work 36 hours a week (various shifts available from Monday to Sunday).

The role:

To deliver Hammersmith & Fulham’s approach to supporting young people out of gangs, violence, and exploitation. This will involve a significant amount of joint working to ensure that Hammersmith & Fulham establishes and delivers early intervention approaches, case management and bringing about reductions in the number of young people involved in violent incidents. Work with other departments within the council, police and other strategic partners will be a key part of the role.

Key Responsibilities:

Hold a caseload of young people and be responsible for providing each young person with support and assistance in engaging with a variety of important interventions with a focus on early intervention and preventative measures in relation to gangs, violence, and exploitation.

Assist with the identification of young people who are at risk of becoming involved in gangs, violence and exploitation and the devising of intervention plans to help them move positively onward in their lives.

Provide targeted interventions to high-risk young people to prevent them from joining gangs and/or support them in exiting gangs and curtail and stop (re)offending.

Assist those young people identified to access and sustain engagement with support services, positive activities, education, employment, and training.

Assist young people to become linked in with services when making the transition from youth to adult services.

If this role is something you’d be interested in or available to undertake, please could you reply to this email with your CV ASAP? Alternatively, if this role would not be suitable for you but you know someone who may be interested then please feel free to share my contact details.

Seven also run a referral scheme – if you know anyone looking for this type of work then please put them in touch, and we can pay you £250 once they are placed and have worked 100 hours!