Harmful Sexual Behaviour Support Coordinator in Cambridge

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.

What will you be doing? You will lead and coordinate the HSB and CSA service, ensuring robust safeguarding, risk management and high quality professional practice. This will include:

• 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.

About you: You will be a confident, values led professional with strong safeguarding expertise and the credibility to influence practice across agencies. You will bring:

• 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.

About us: Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes. Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do. We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities.

If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager to discuss any adjustment needs.