Children’s Social Worker, Missing Co-ordinator, West London

Children’s Social Worker, Missing Co-ordinator, West London 
Pay rate to £41.10 per hour 
Contract role, Missing Co-ordinator 
 
Pertemps are recruiting for experienced Children’s Social Worker in West London 
This is a specialist role focused on children and young people who go missing, particularly where this overlaps with harm outside the home (e.g. exploitation, peer harm, serious youth violence). 
 
Key responsibilities: 
 
- Providing expert advice and guidance to social workers and multi‑agency partners in relation to missing children and harm outside the home 
- Chairing and contributing to multi‑agency strategy meetings 
- Supporting teams to manage risk, improve recording, and ensure timely completion of statutory processes (including return home conversations) 
- Monitoring and analysing missing episodes and identifying patterns and themes 
- Reporting to senior forums and contributing to service development 
- Building strong working relationships across Children’s Services, police and wider partners 
- Supporting training and awareness across the workforce 
- With support, leading Ealing’s Return Home Conversation Champions 
 
About you: 
 
- Qualified Social Worker with current Social Work England registration 
- Strong experience of safeguarding adolescents and complex child protection work 
- Confident in chairing meetings and influencing multi‑agency decision making 
- Able to analyse risk, use data, and contribute to strategic thinking 
- Strong communication and relationship‑building skills 
 
This is a varied role combining operational, strategic and advisory responsibilities, and would suit someone with strong experience of adolescent safeguarding or working with harm outside the home. 
 
There is plenty of hybrid working available. 
Please get in touch for more information. 
 
This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:

• A Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to
• An easy registration process (all done online)
• Referral schemes and incentives
• Ongoing compliance managed for you
• Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.

Please contact Elle McKenna on 07823 789233 or email elle.mckenna@pprsocialcare.co.uk for more information.
We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this is not the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO (Independence Reviewing Officer), BIA (Best Interest Assessor), MASH, LAC, Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager.