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The Team – Young People’s Team at Basis Yorkshire

The Young People’s team work across Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield providing specialist support to young people experiencing CSE. The team work to Basis’ organisational values, taking a harm reduction approach to enable and empower young people to make positive choices, whilst working to reduce risk. The team have an established reputation for providing high quality, effective safety advice, information and support, enabling young people to navigate exploitative and abusive relationships. Services are provided within the community, at venues as young people determine.

The Job

This role will work closely with parents, supporting them to support their children as well as supporting them to liaise and advocate with other services. It will also work with teachers and other partners in schools of children who are experiencing CSE who are also neurodivergent. This role will work closely with the Basis colleague who will be supporting the young person directly.

This role will include working with school to deliver some small-scale group work to Children and Young People deemed to be at low/emerging risk of Exploitation and Abuse, offering training to schools around CSE and the link with neurodivergence for those schools where we see particularly high number of referrals.

The post-holder will also offer 1 to 1 support to parents of children being supported by our CSE worker; both to address the impact on the parent(s) as well as ensure that the young person still has support at home once the specialist input from Basis is no longer needed. Where necessary, this will also include some training for parents should the demand be there (either directly or through schools).