Senior Practitioner (County Lines, Slavery and Trafficking) - Part Time

FHQ
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Part Time
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Fixed Term
18 - Months
up to £45730.91 (FTE)
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Senior Practitioner (County Lines, Slavery and Trafficking) within our County Lines Task Force Safeguarding team is required for a Part Time, Fixed term contract role paying up to £45,730.91 (FTE) per annum, plus £3,033.56 London Allowance per annum (if applicable) with the British Transport Police (BTP) based at FHQ Crime, Ivason House.

BTP is the national police Force for the rail network throughout Great Britain, including London Underground, across which we ensure the safety and security of nearly 3 billion passenger journeys and over 100 million tons of freight every year. The world in which we work is fast-paced, operationally and commercially demanding, and constantly changing.

Safeguarding is a key priority for British Transport Police in their work to tackle exploitation including County Lines, Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking. The child exploitation senior practitioner is part of the County Lines Task Force Safeguarding team and supports the prepare, protect, prevent functions. The purpose of this role is to provide advice, guidance, training and operational support to improve preventative and statutory responses to exploitation, slavery and trafficking. 

 

As Senior Practitioner you will be required to:

  • Consult and provide specialist statutory safeguarding expertise on operational activity being undertaken by the British Transport Police (primarily as part of Op Defiant County Lines Task Force), liaise and build relationships with statutory and voluntary partners to ensure statutory safeguarding requirements are met and preventative responses developed across the rail network
  • Support the active investigation and safeguarding of children known to British Transport Police including liaison, gathering information, analysis and recommendations pertaining to their effective safeguarding
  • Coordinate with other agencies to ensure children, young people and vulnerable adults have effective plans in place to protect them and their families and support the investigation into crime
  • Create and deliver bespoke interventions dependent upon identified service need, including but not limited to delivering bespoke training and learning sessions, developing guidance and resources and providing consultation expertise to rail partners

 

Further information about this vacancy can be found in the attached job description. The successful Senior Practitioner will be required to evidence the following:

  • The role requires a professional qualification/registration including Social Worker, youth justice, Teacher, Nurse, Probation Officer or equivalent
  • Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
  • Ability to work with multiple partners across relevant professional disciplines, to achieve collaborative responses for individuals, groups and locations
  • Ability to recognise vulnerable children and adults, and the required response to ensure safeguarding activity is proportionate and robust and in accordance with statutory requirements
  • Ability to work flexibly on a national basis with a range of staff at various levels across organisations. This will include extensive travel and overnight stays away from home.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of exploitation including Child Sexual Exploitation, Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE); in particular the understanding of County Lines.
  • Working knowledge of the relevant legislation such as: Children Act 1989, Children Act 2004, Working Together 2018, Modern Slavery Act 2015, Modern Slavery Statutory Guidance 2022, Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders 2012 and the Care Act 2014

 

If you are interested in applying to this Senior Practitioner (County Lines, Slavery and Trafficking) role then please do not delay as interviews will be held as soon as appropriate candidates are highlighted.

How to APPLY: Please submit a CV and covering letter outlining how you meet the required knowledge, skills and experience as outlined within the Job Description

In return for your experience, we can offer you:

  • Salary of up to £45,730.91 (FTE) per annum, plus £3,033.56 London Allowance per annum (if applicable)
  • Yearly base salary increments (subject to satisfactory performance in last PDR year)
  • Flexible agile working approach
  • 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Family friendly policies including up to 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave
  • Bespoke benefits platform and access to Blue Light Card
  • Development opportunities including fully funded apprenticeships
  • Employee assistance programme and dedicated wellbeing hub
  • Pension scheme

 

BTP is an employer who cares about the impact we have on the environment and the wider challenges of climate change, and as such we are committed to reducing our carbon footprint and achieving Net Zero Carbon (NZC) through offsetting by 2035.

At BTP we are proud guardians of the railway and it is crucial that we represent the diverse communities we serve and protect. As ‘One BTP’ across the UK, we know that diversity, inclusion and belonging help us improve our decision making, foster creativity and drive innovation so all our people can thrive.

Our vacancies are open to everyone and all appointments are made based on merit. So that we can become more diverse we encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, women, people who have a disability, those who are neurodiverse and persons who identify as LGBTQI+. We use positive action to encourage potential candidates from underrepresented groups through targeted workshops or advice sessions.  If you have the skills, experience and values that here in BTP we pride ourselves on then we would welcome you to apply.

For more information on Positive Action please click here or email the team on PART-Recruitment@btp.police.uk

If you want to ask us any awkward or ‘obvious’ questions, if you are you unsure whether your personal circumstances are suitable for a career as a Police Constable but don’t know how to talk to us about it OR you have any questions about the application process, please email our friendly and helpful team where we will be happy to help you:  RecruitmentTeam@btp.police.uk. If your question related to equality or diversity then you can also contact our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team directly at: PART-Recruitment@btp.police.uk To reassure you, anything you ask us will be in the strictest confidence and will not form part of your application.

In order to apply, you must have the permanent right to live and work in the UK and have been resident in the UK for the previous 5 YEARS. You will be asked these and other questions to determine your eligibility to work for British Transport Police when you start your application and you must answer honestly.

BTP has undertaken a review of Police Staff pensions and as a result of this the Police Staff pension will be changing. The current police staff pension is a Defined Benefit scheme which is administered by the Railways Pension scheme. The new pension scheme which is launching is a Defined Contribution scheme which is administered by Royal London. The new pension scheme has been approved with an expected introductory date of 1st October 2023.- Therefore, any new starters that join on the 1st of October and after will be inducted onto the new defined contribution pension scheme. If you have any queries, please contact the pensions team – pensionqueries@btp.police.uk

Internal candidates must have completed their probation for their current substantive posting and can only apply in tenure if Head of Department approval is emailed to Recruitmentteam@btp.police.uk prior to the vacancy closing. Internal candidates must confirm that they are not subject to formal action plans for sickness/complaints/discipline or poor performance and that all mandatory training courses have been attended and are in ticket/up to date. A minimum rating of 3 (performing) or a rating of U (no rating) must have been achieved on the last reporting year PDR.

 

 

This opportunity is closed to applications.