Role Overview
This is a rare and important opportunity to take a leading role across Cambridgeshire in shaping how we respond to children who have engaged in Harmful Sexual Behaviour (HSB) and Child Sexual Abuse (CSA). As the HSB Support Coordinator, you will provide strategic and operational leadership for a developing, specialist service that supports children, young people, families and professionals where harmful sexual behaviour is a concern. Working at the heart of a complex multi‑agency partnership, you will ensure that responses are safe, proportionate, trauma‑informed and rooted in evidence‑based practice. This role has a county‑wide remit across Children’s Services and Education, offering the opportunity to influence practice, policy and outcomes at both strategic and frontline levels. Interviews will take place on 30 June 2026.
Responsibilities
- Providing strategic leadership and direction for HSB work, including service planning, partnership priorities and policy development
- Coordinating and overseeing complex assessments and interventions, including AIM‑based assessments and multi‑agency decision‑making
- Acting as a specialist advisor to professionals across Social Care, Youth Justice, Education, Police, Health and partner agencies
- Ensuring effective multi‑agency governance, quality assurance and performance oversight
- Contributing to and chairing safeguarding forums, strategy discussions and public protection processes where required
- Supporting and developing the workforce through training, practice leadership, supervision and consultation
- Maintaining clear oversight of service activity, performance data and reporting to ensure accountability and continuous improvement
This role combines strategic influence with hands‑on specialist practice and will suit someone who thrives in complex, high‑impact work.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network ‘IDEAL’ and self‑organised peer support groups, help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
Qualifications
- A relevant professional qualification (e.g. Social Work, Psychology, Nursing) and current professional registration
- Strong knowledge of HSB and CSA, including assessment, risk management and intervention
- Experience of working in multi‑agency safeguarding environments, contributing to complex decision‑making
- Working knowledge of the AIM Framework and its application in practice
- The ability to exercise sound professional judgement, including making defensible decisions in challenging circumstances
- Excellent communication, influencing and report‑writing skills, with confidence chairing professional meetings
- A commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion and safeguarding, and to improving outcomes for children and young people
You will be resilient, reflective and motivated by the opportunity to lead meaningful change in a demanding but rewarding area of practice.
Disability Confident
As a Disability Confident employer, we offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by us. In certain recruitment situations such as high‑volume, seasonal and high‑peak times, we may limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled and non‑disabled people. For more details please contact our recruitment team.
Benefits
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro‑rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in‑store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
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