Child Exploitation, Missing and Prevention Coordinator

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: PO5
Salary: £52,194 – £55,323 per annum
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent (36 Hours per week)
Closing Date: Sunday 2nd November 2025
Interview Date: Week commencing 10th November 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture. Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

The role of the Child Exploitation, Missing and Prevention Coordinator is to coordinate and deliver effective practice and robust responses to children and young people who are missing and/or at risk of Exploitation, delivering training/learning events and raising awareness.
The role requires working in partnership, with key stakeholders, to deliver a coordinated and robust approach to the reduction and management of contextual safeguarding in the borough.
Attendance and input within Exploitation Panel, Missing Meeting, Pre-Mace, MACE and other key stakeholders’ meetings and panels, as the lead in Haringey social care for missing and exploitation.  Using the intelligence and information to assist social care teams to manage and reduce risk for the children & young people.  Facilitating peer mapping with key stakeholders to understand the areas, gang culture and risks in the borough working collaboratively when required to drive practice policy to safeguard children & young people.

About You

A qualified Social Worker with extensive experience in developing and delivering action plans, strategies, and improvement projects tailored to meet the Local Authority’s Exploitation and Missing needs. Proven ability to lead initiatives addressing Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE), Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE), and Modern Slavery through workshops, training, and strategic planning. Committed to continuous professional development for both self and others, with a strong foundation in project management, staff supervision, and multi-agency collaboration. Skilled in managing complex workloads and competing priorities while maintaining high standards of service delivery.
Demonstrated expertise in working directly with young people from diverse backgrounds, offering both one-to-one and group support for those facing sensitive and complex challenges. Adept at preparing and presenting data-informed reports, documents, and strategic plans. Known for clear and adaptable communication skills, effectively engaging children, young people, and key stakeholders across various agencies. Experienced in influencing decision-makers and fostering strong partnerships to drive positive outcomes in safeguarding and exploitation prevention.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.
Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.
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