About the Role
Peterborough City Council is seeking an experienced and highly skilled Social Worker to join the Exploitation and Missing Team, part of the Young People's Safeguarding Service. This specialist team works with children and young people at risk of exploitation, trafficking, and those who go missing from home or care.
This role requires a practitioner with strong safeguarding experience, confidence in multi-agency working, and the ability to build meaningful, trauma-informed relationships with vulnerable young people.
Responsibilities:
- Build trusting and effective relationships with vulnerable children and young people.
- Use trauma‑informed approaches to understand experiences of exploitation.
- Respond promptly to children reported missing from home or care.
- Provide oversight of return home interviews and support next steps within safeguarding plans.
- Conduct timely and meaningful return home interviews to explore reasons for going missing.
- Identify push and pull factors impacting behaviour and risk.
- Contribute to the development and delivery of safeguarding plans.
- Deliver training to professionals across Peterborough on exploitation and missing themes.
- Attend Strategy Meetings as required.
- Participate in weekly Risk Outside the Home Panels and monthly Multi-Agency Child Exploitation (MACE) meetings.
- Work collaboratively with police, education, health services, youth justice, and voluntary sector partners.
- Share intelligence appropriately and proportionately to safeguard children.
- Provide oversight and support for missing workers within the service.
- Engage in ongoing training and continuous professional development.
- Maintain professional registration with Social Work England.
