Team Manager Vulnerable Exploitation and Missing

Number of Vacancies: 1 Time Type: Full time Worker Type: Regular Proposed Interview Date: Friday, July 31, 2026 Hours of Work: 37 Hiring Manager: Gaynor Skelton Contact Number: 01482 612284

Job Description Summary:

This is a full time Permanent Position. Hull Children's Services has recently achieved its strongest ever Ofsted judgement, being rated Good overall, with Outstanding judgements for the impact of leaders on social work practice and for the experiences and progress of care leavers. Inspectors recognised the significant progress made across the service, describing it as "safer, stronger and more consistent" for children and families. Ofsted highlighted Hull's strong workforce culture, effective early help services, strong management oversight, and a commitment to ensuring children's voices are central to decision-making.

This is an exciting time to join Hull. We are a service with a clear vision, ambitious plans for the future, and a workforce committed to improving the lives of children, young people and families every day.

ROLE AND PURPOSE

Children, Young People and Families Services together with partner agencies will form a Vulnerable and Exploitation Team. The focus of the team is where partners jointly prioritise and maximise their collective efforts to ensure that children, young people are not at risk of CSE, CCE, Trafficking or Missing or if they are experiencing any form of exploitation, reduce the potential for further occurrence. The team will work with children and young people in achieving positive change and developing supporting relationships to achieve and eliminate further abuse.

The objective of this professional role will be to lead and work closely with other agencies in providing support to vulnerable and exploited young people who are experiencing or at risk of CSE, CCE, going Missing, or Trafficking, and to have full management oversight and manage the risk associated with working with the young person.

The Team Manager for the child/young person will have management oversight and will be the ultimate decision maker in all Safeguarding matters. This role will support all cases that are subject to CSE/CCE/Missing and Trafficking and will be the nominated Team for Vulnerable and Exploited missing young people. This will ultimately develop positive working relationship with partner agencies in tackling CSE/CCE/Missing and Trafficking within Hull. It will also support the children, young people and families providing a high level of intelligence and data to Senior managers in respect of CSE/CCE and Missing. The Team Manager will be required to gather the information from all partners enabling analysis to provide a holistic assessment of a child’s needs and identification of which service is most appropriate.

This post holder will be expected to lead a dedicated team. The work involves a high level of professional autonomy and the post holder must be prepared to develop a pioneering piece of work in the context of professionally challenging circumstances, contributing to a national approach to this area of work.

If the postholder requires a Standard or Enhanced DBS disclosure the candidate is required to declare full details of everything on their criminal record unless the conviction/s and/or caution/s are considered “protected” in line with filtering rules for DBS checks.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

1. Strategy – Contributes to the overarching strategy in Hull Children’s Social Care and to manage the delivery of a new and innovative project, making key contributions towards developing policies both nationally and locally.
2. Customer Focus - Ensures professional relationships with all partner agencies, children and young people, and those identified as their significant network and that these relationships are used to gain positive outcomes. To ensure that staff within the project work purposefully with other agencies to promote positive outcomes for children, young people and their families.
3. Performance Management – Guides and develops the practice and performance of staff within the team and ensures that meaningful management/ performance information is produced to enable the effective monitoring and evaluation of the impact and outcomes of the work undertaken.
4. Leadership – Models and directs the work of the team and the priorities within the project through a collaborative and systemic approach to work with all partners and networks, children and young people.
5. Statutory Obligations – To promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and/or vulnerable adults.
6. Service Delivery:
   • Holds key responsibility as the lead Team Manager in regard to Vulnerability/Exploitation and Missing and directs individual pieces of work where necessary or promoting other agencies to undertake the work.
   • Ensure that a systemic approach is deployed within the Team, both in terms of working with children, young people and their families, practitioners working together and throughout the whole system of Children Social Care and relationships with partners.
   • Ensure that Senior Managers are aware of all risks associated with CSE, CCE and Missing, giving detailed analysis of CSE, CCE and Missing Young people within Hull and the impact for services.
   • Ensures focused and purposeful conversations are held with partners to agree explicit aims and objectives about desired outcomes within the context of working with children and young people and their families.
   • Chairs MACE meetings to ensure a sound oversight of all cases in relation to progress and a balance between risk and protective factors.
   • Directs the work of the Team Coordinator in relation to case recording, organisational support and liaison and managing resources.
   • Work closely with fellow professionals in order to devise and develop appropriate support and intervention in a coordinated manner. Uses research findings to inform practice.
   • Provides and presents concise reports to the HSCB and CYPFB when required.
   • Acquires knowledge about different groups, races and cultures which inform service delivery and to understand the impact of racism and discrimination on children and families.
   • Manages and utilises cash limited budgets in order to commission services and assistance from other sources to support children and young people.