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Children’s Social Worker, Missing Co-ordinator, West London
Pay rate to £41.10 per hour
Contract role, Missing Co-ordinator
Vitalis are recruiting for experienced Children’s Social Worker in West London
This is a specialist role focused on children and young people who go missing, particularly where this overlaps with harm outside the home (e.g. exploitation, peer harm, serious youth violence).
Pay rate to £41.10 per hour
Contract role, Missing Co-ordinator
Vitalis are recruiting for experienced Children’s Social Worker in West London
This is a specialist role focused on children and young people who go missing, particularly where this overlaps with harm outside the home (e.g. exploitation, peer harm, serious youth violence).
Key responsibilities:
– Providing expert advice and guidance to social workers and multi-agency partners in relation to missing children and harm outside the home
– Chairing and contributing to multi-agency strategy meetings
– Supporting teams to manage risk, improve recording, and ensure timely completion of statutory processes (including return home conversations)
– Monitoring and analysing missing episodes and identifying patterns and themes
– Reporting to senior forums and contributing to service development
– Building strong working relationships across Children’s Services, police and wider partners
– Supporting training and awareness across the workforce
– With support, leading Ealing’s Return Home Conversation Champions
About you:
– Qualified Social Worker with current Social Work England registration
– Strong experience of safeguarding adolescents and complex child protection work
– Confident in chairing meetings and influencing multi-agency decision making
– Able to analyse risk, use data, and contribute to strategic thinking
– Strong communication and relationship-building skills
This is a varied role combining operational, strategic and advisory responsibilities, and would suit someone with strong experience of adolescent safeguarding or working with harm outside the home.
There is plenty of hybrid working available.
Please get in touch for more information.
Don’t forget, if this role isn’t the perfect fit, we’re confident we can find one that is. We recruit across a wide range of public sector specialisms, including:
Independent Reviewing Officer (IRO)
- Best Interest Assessor (BIA)
- Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)
- Looked After Children (LAC)
- Children’s Social Work
- Adult Social Work
- Service Manager
- Head of Service
- Team Manager
- Assistant Team Manager
- A wide range of housing roles
- Careers in SEND in local authorities
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