Child Exploitation and MACE Coordinator

Stoke-on-Trent City Council; Stoke-on-Trent; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid and flexible working options

Local authority pension scheme

Professional development and training

Lifestyle and employee discounts

Job summary

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is seeking a Child Exploitation and MACE Co-ordinator to safeguard vulnerable children and coordinate Multi-Agency Child Exploitation (MACE) arrangements in Stoke-on-Trent.

You will work with social care, police, health, education and community partners to coordinate complex processes, analyse data, chair meetings, and deliver training to shape innovative safeguarding approaches.

Qualifications

• Experience in safeguarding, child exploitation, adolescent services or related multi‑agency environment.
• Strong analytical ability to interpret complex information and identify risks, trends and actions.
• Highly organised with the ability to manage competing priorities and coordinate complex processes.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with professionals from various agencies.
• Confident using digital systems and tools, including information management systems, to manage and present data.
• Passionate about improving outcomes for vulnerable children and young people and committed to a child-centred safeguarding approach.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate day-to-day operation of the MACE process, ensuring information sharing and decision-making across partners.
• Analyse safeguarding information, data and intelligence to identify risks, themes and patterns of exploitation.
• Organise, chair and support multi‑agency meetings with tracked actions.
• Provide specialist advice on child exploitation and contextual safeguarding.
• Develop and maintain systems, reports and performance information to support safeguarding and service improvement.
• Work with children, families and partners to improve outcomes and strengthen the city’s response to exploitation.

Skills

Analytical skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Digital skills

Data management

Multi-agency coordination

Partnership working

Microsoft 365

Tools

Microsoft 365

Job description

Child Exploitation and MACE Co-ordinator Do you want a role where your work makes a real difference to some of the most vulnerable children and young people in Stoke-on-Trent? We are looking for a highly organised, analytical and passionate Child Exploitation and MACE Co-ordinator to join our Adolescent Services team. This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in safeguarding children at risk of exploitation, coordinating the city's Multi-Agency Child Exploitation (MACE) arrangements and helping partners work together to reduce harm and improve outcomes. Working closely with social care, police, health, education and community partners, you will coordinate complex multi‑agency processes, analyse intelligence and data, support strategic safeguarding activity, chair meetings, deliver training and help shape innovative approaches to contextual safeguarding.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the day-to-day operation of the Multi-Agency Child Exploitation (MACE)process, ensuring effective information sharing and decision-making across partner agencies
• Analyse safeguarding information, data and intelligence to identify emerging risks, themes, locations and patterns of exploitation
• Organise, chair and support a range of multi‑agency meetings, ensuring actions are tracked and completed
• Provide specialist advice, consultation and guidance to professionals on child exploitation, contextual safeguarding and related harms
• Develop and maintain effective systems, reports and performance information to support safeguarding activity and service improvement
• Work collaboratively with children, families and partner agencies to improve outcomes and strengthen the city's response to exploitation
• Experience of coordinating complex safeguarding or multi‑agency processes.
• Strong analytical, organisational and communication skills.
• Knowledge of child exploitation, contextual safeguarding and partnership working.
• Excellent digital skills, including Microsoft 365 and data management systems.
• The ability to work confidently with professionals at all levels and manage competing priorities.

In return, you'll join a council that is committed to improving the lives of children and families, where innovation, partnership working and professional development are actively encouraged. You'll work alongside dedicated colleagues who are passionate about making Stoke-on-Trent a safer place for children and young people.

Qualifications and Experience

• You have experience of working within safeguarding, child exploitation, adolescent services or a related multi‑agency environment
• You possess strong analytical skills and can interpret complex information to identify risks, trends and required actions
• You are highly organised, able to manage competing priorities and coordinate complex processes effectively
• You have excellent communication and relationship‑building skills, with confidence working alongside professionals from a range of agencies
• You are confident using digital systems and tools, including Microsoft 365 and information management systems, to manage and present data
• You are passionate about improving outcomes for vulnerable children and young people and committed to a child‑centred approach to safeguarding

About the Council

We are a city of strengths, with a proud heritage and bright future. Working for Stoke-on Trent City Council is more than just a job, it's about making, protecting and improving the services for the local population, reducing inequalities and improving independence for the people who live and work in the city. And that's where you come in. We are always looking for people of the highest calibre with skills, knowledge and experience to help us deliver our compelling vision.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council's diverse and talented workforce is its greatest asset and most valuable resource. The skills, knowledge and experience of our c.4,600 employees are essential to delivering our ambitions and vision for our organisation and Stoke-on-Trent. We want to be an employer that people are proud to work for, and where our staff are supported, developed and rewarded in an inclusive way that helps them to excel and to deliver the high‑quality services that our residents need.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is a unitary authority employing approximately 4,600 staff who deliver 700 services to more than 260,000 residents. Our city comprises of six towns: Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke and Tunstall. We are a city of strengths, with a proud heritage and bright future. We have undergone significant changes over the last few years. New ways of working have already transformed many service areas and we are determined to continue to develop more innovative approaches to ensure that we can maximise the benefits of transformation.

Our city Although the 13th largest city in the UK, Stoke-on-Trent is rapidly outstripping a number of parts of the country with our economic growth and recovery. Stoke-on-Trent is a city with a strong sense of civic pride - we've been voted the kindest city in the UK - and a place where you'll receive a hugely warm welcome. We have a rich and diverse culture, steeped in our prestigious industrial heritage as the celebrated 'world capital of ceramics'. But we don't just want to celebrate our proud past - we firmly believe that Stoke-on-Trent's best years are ahead of it. We are determined to raise aspirations and match them with high‑quality education and health provision, as well as improved opportunities to secure fulfilling and well‑paid work. Through uniting social and economic opportunities, we are maximising the full power of the city council as a secure and steadfast institution within the city.

Benefits

• A competitive salary based on your skills, experience and talent
• Hybrid and flexible working options
• An excellent local authority benefits pension scheme
• Professional development through learning opportunities, regular training sessions and apprenticeship and management schemes, When you work for Stoke-on-Trent City Council you'll be helping to improve the lives and wellbeing of our residents. We'll provide you with support, learning opportunities and flexible working options and some amazing benefits including; a competitive salary, generous holidays, an excellent defined local authority benefit pension scheme, annual leave purchase scheme, cycle to work schemes just to name a few. We also have access to lifestyle benefits which offer a wide range of discounts such as family days out, travel, retail and many more.

Diversity and Inclusion

Our commitment to you Vibrancy and diversity are two of Stoke-on-Trent's greatest assets. A city founded on creative endeavour should value and celebrate the multitude of voices, ideas and identities that shape its culture. We are committed to creating a culture which is truly inclusive, where all staff feel valued, listened to, supported and able to do their work to the best of their abilities at all times. And we must ensure that our decisions and policies nurture and empower communities across our city and do not inadvertently disadvantage groups and individuals that we want to help to thrive. Our approach to Equality and Diversity is an invitation to all our communities to work with and for us so we can continue to improve how we deliver services residents need. Our employee networks are inclusive, open forums for colleagues with similar lived experiences. They allow staff to meet, support and mentor each other, alongside being a voice for under‑represented groups to advise and support the organisation when developing policies and services.