Location
5 Pancras Square, London N1C 4AG/Community Hubs

Hours
36 hours per week

Salary
£37,716

Contract Type
x 2 Fixed Term/Secondment for 12 months

Closing Date
Monday 11th August 2025 at 23:59

Interview
Week commencing 18th August 2025

About Camden
Camden is changing on the inside to make life better for everyone. Our residents and communities are at the heart of everything we do. We’re home to the most important conversations happening today and we’re making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind. Here’s where you can help decide a better future for us all. This role is based within our team responding to missing and exploitation concerns for Camden children.

What You’ll Be Doing / How You’ll Be Involved
This role will undertake return home conversations with children who are reported missing from home or care, creatively engaging with children and providing a consistent offer of support. It will deliver a dynamic and proactive approach to working with children at risk from extra-familial harm, identifying risk across exploitation and abuse. It will advocate for children, ensuring their voice is heard within their families and professional networks. It will also work with children within their communities, engaging with them in the spaces where they feel most comfortable. The Missing Outreach Worker will work collaboratively with multi-agency partners, raising awareness of the risks impacting missing and exploited children, and supporting the borough to identify and prevent extra familial harm.

We are currently recruiting to 2 posts. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and will require an Enhanced DBS.

Experience
You will have experience of delivering meaningful work and engagement with children, with the ability to overcome barriers to build trusted relationships.

About you
You will have the knowledge to recognise risk factors for children who are vulnerable to/experiencing extra familial harm, including exploitation and youth violence. You will also have the ability to work creatively within a team setting, sharing information appropriately with multi-agency partners and raising awareness of your area of work. You will have the ability to take responsibility for planning your own work, consistently delivering high quality work against tight timescales and conflicting priorities. In addition, you will be comfortable delivering outreach work in the community, developing relationships with community hubs.

Qualifications
No specific qualifications are mentioned, but relevant experience and skills in working with children and understanding of extra-familial harm are essential.