Experience

Wiltshire Council

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Exploitation and contextual safeguarding practitioner

  • Oct 2015 - Present

  Working within a multiagency specialist team of practitioners to identify, support and intervene with concerns around contextual safeguarding for young people.We work directly with young people who are at risk of, or experiencing, exploitation. This includes grooming, sexual exploitation and abuse, trafficking, criminal exploitation and county lines.We also work alongside a number of professionals to support them to identify and support with contextual safeguarding, complete mapping exercises and analyse the patterns and concerns of behaviours in the community involving children who are being exploited. Show less

• Adolescent support practitioner

  • Mar 2013 - Oct 2015

  Working alongside other professionals, particularly children's social care, to help and support young people and their families. Main focus of my role is to work with young people and families with extremely complex needs and difficulties, to reduce risk, support reunification and/or work with young people on the edge of care.Our role came about through the troubled families agenda and following indication that percentages of adolescents being taken into care, or fall beneath the threshold of social care involvement, are increasing. Show less

• Prevention project caseworker

  • Jul 2012 - Mar 2013

  Working with young people between the ages of 8-15years who are involved in antisocial behaviours.Working alongside the youth offending team to try and prevent youth crime increasing; catching it before the courts.



Orchard house family assessment centre

• Assistant psychologist

  • Aug 2011 - Jul 2012

  Working alongside psychologists, therapists and family support workers in parenting assessments and interventions. My role included working directly with families and their young children, residing in the centre, to help support improvements in their parenting skills, whilst assessing them and their capabilities to build their skills and sustain them. My role also included writing court and psychologist reports detailing the assessments of the families within the centre. Some families were able to return home with their child/ren, however many of them were unable to sustain change and unfortunately our assessments concluded that they were unable to successfully and safely parent their child/ren. Show less



Tumblewood

• Senior project worker

  • Sep 2007 - Aug 2011

  Working within a therapeutic residential unit for young girls with profound, complex and multiple needs in terms of their emotional, psychological and attachment development. I worked alongside other project workers, therapists, psychiatrists, teachers and psychologists to support young girls who are unable to contain their anxieties or express their needs without adult intervention. We worked with young girls who express many acting out behaviours, as a result of damaging histories; the children we worked with have experienced abuse in some form and their behaviours triggered by a number of factors including; self harm, sexual exploitation, and dysfunctional and destructive family patterns. Show less