Missing Outreach Worker

Salary: £37,716

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

Hours per week: 36

Contract Type: x 2 Fixed Term/Secondment for 12 months

Closing Date: Monday 11^th August 2025 at 23:59

Interview: Week commencing 18^th 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 multiagency 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. Please note Camden also offers the DBS update service.

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All About You

To find out more about what it is like to work at Camden, meet some of our People by visiting 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/our-stories'.

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 you 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.

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

What We Offer

At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits including:

• 27 days annual leave for new starters, rising to 31 days after 5 years
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Flexible working opportunities
• Interest free loans
• Access to our incredible staff networks
• Career development and training
• Wellbeing support and activities

Visit 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details.

Inclusion and Diversity

We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.

To discover more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit https://www.camdenjobs.co.uk/inclusion-and-diversity 

Asking for Adjustments

Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at resourcing@camden.gov.uk or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG.

Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.