Harm Outside The Home Lead

Bristol City Council; Bristol; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government body in Bristol is seeking an operational lead for the Safer Connections team. The role focuses on coordinating responses to children at risk of exploitation and violence, requiring expertise in child protection and a collaborative approach with various agencies. This position offers a supportive environment and an excellent benefits package, including flexible working and pension scheme membership.

Benefits

Flexible working

Local Government Pension scheme

Generous annual leave allowance

Qualifications

• Experience in multi-agency child protection practices.
• Understanding of legislation related to safeguarding children.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop multi-agency responses to reduce children's vulnerability.
• Provide guidance on child protection and safeguarding.
• Coordinate operational responses to harm outside the home.

Skills

Multi-agency collaboration

Child protection expertise

Safeguarding knowledge

Understanding of extra-familial harm

Crisis management

Job description

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Job details

Job reference VAC007442. Date posted 22/09/2025. Application closing date 08/10/2025. Location City Hall College Green City Centre Bristol BS1 5TR. Salary BG13: £47,181 - £50,269. Package Blank. Contractual hours 37. Basis Full time. Job category/type Social Care.

This is an exciting opportunity to become part of the newly established adolescent team in Bristol.

This role is an operational lead for the citywide Safer Connections team whole-system response to harm outside the home (including CSE, CCE, peer-on-peer violence and abuse, trafficking, knife crime) building consistent approaches for identifying and responding to harm outside the home through mature and effective multi-agency partnerships, systems and processes working with the locality areas to develop delivery and response to children being harmed extra-familiarly.

Responsibilities

What will I be doing?

You will develop multi-agency and community preventative responses that reduce children’s vulnerability to extra-familial harm (including CSE, CCE, Peer-on-peer violence and abuse, trafficking, knife crime and county lines, radicalisation).

Provide practice expertise and guidance on the child protection, children in care, safeguarding and prevention system locally, regionally and nationally, ensuring the work of Bristol City Council Children and Families Services is enabled to be innovative, compliant with statutory legislation and guidance and provide the best outcomes for children and young people in Bristol.

This role is part of a wider service that has a supportive and improvement focus to ensure the Bristol City Council consistently achieves an effective multi-agency response to children and young people affected being harmed outside the home including identification, support, disruption and prosecution.

The role coordinates and supports Bristol City Council operational responses to harm outside the home working within the localities to provide support on all aspects of cases open where harm outside the home is identified as an area of harm. The role will also collate and exchange information and intelligence to develop the local profile, understanding and expertise.

Safer Connections Team

The vision in Bristol is that every child and young person is kept safe from exploitation and violence and supported to achieve their aspirations. The objectives of the Safer Connections Team are to contribute towards the reduction of significant acts of exploitation and violence committed against young people.

The Safer Connections team is a multi-disciplinary service aiming to identify and disrupt exploitation (criminal and sexual), serious youth violence (extra-familial harm) and to assess and understand risk both to individuals and across an area and deliver interventions to those at risk and or being harmed through exploitation and violence and survivors of this.

Please note this role requires Enhanced DBS checks.

Why Bristol City Council?

At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation.

Join us and you’ll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance.

We're a Disability Confident employer which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people. Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview. We'll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career.

Interviews will be held on 16th and 17th October.

For further information, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification or alternatively, please contact [e-mail] or [e-mail]