Advertised from 5 June 2025

Role

Following a restructuring of our services in South East Scotland we have identified key themes of provision across the locality. You may be allocated to a specific funding stream and/or asked to undertake work in any of the delivery areas detailed below depending on need across the locality.

We currently have a vacancy for a Project Worker 2 post within our Barnardo's Early Intervention Service. Barnardo's Early Intervention Service aims to support children, families and communities to recognise and understand the signs of child sexual exploitation (CSE), ensuring early identification of children vulnerable to CSE, and the prevention of harm. 

We are seeking project workers with an awareness of child sexual exploitation including signs and indicators; impact on young people and their families; assessment; intervention and supporting recovery.

Interventions include long and short term 1:1 support session with young people, delivering group work in schools around healthy relationships and exploitation and providing consultancy to key stakeholders within children and young people's helping teams. The team also provides awareness training to professionals through a range of community events from briefing sessions to full training days supporting communities to better understand CSE and strategies to keep children and young people safe.

Application notes

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