Team Manager - Child Exploitation & Missing

Role: Team Manager

Team: Child Exploitation and Missing

Location: Wakefield Council

Pay Rate: £40.00 per hour

Contract: Full-Time, Ongoing

Are you an inspirational, resilient leader with a deep commitment to protecting vulnerable young people?

Wakefield Council is seeking a highly skilled Team Manager to take operational command of its specialized Child Exploitation and Missing Team. Offering a competitive rate of £40.00 per hour, this is a critical leadership role designed for a professional who thrives in a high-stakes safeguarding environment and knows how to drive multi-agency disruptions against contextual risks.

As the Team Manager, you will lead a dedicated squad of specialists to intercept risk, disrupt exploiters, and safeguard children at risk of extra-familial harm:

• Operational Leadership: Manage the daily operations of the Child Exploitation and Missing team, ensuring high-quality, trauma-informed intervention strategies are delivered.

• Multi-Agency Disruption: Work at the forefront of partnership working, collaborating closely with West Yorkshire Police, health partners, education providers, and the voluntary sector to map and disrupt exploitation networks.

• Risk Management: Oversee complex, high-risk cases involving Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE), Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE), county lines, and persistent missing episodes.

• Performance & Quality Assurance: Lead on case directions, sign off robust risk assessments, conduct regular audits, and provide high-quality reflective supervision to your practitioners.

To step into this specialist leadership slot, you must bring a solid track record in adolescent safeguarding:

• The Essentials: A recognized Social Work qualification and an active registration with Social Work England.

• Leadership Background: Proven experience operating at a Team Manager or Assistant Team Manager level within statutory Children's Services.

• Subject Matter Expertise: Deep, demonstrable knowledge of contextual safeguarding, child exploitation frameworks, tracking missing trends, and National Minimum Standards.

• Decisive Judgment: The ability to make swift, defensible decisions under pressure to ensure child safety.

• Premium Earning Power: A competitive hourly rate of £40.00 per hour.

• A Focused Specialism: Step away from standard, generalized frontline workloads and focus your leadership energy entirely on a critical, rewarding safeguarding niche.

• Hybrid Working: Benefit from modern, flexible working arrangements that allow you to balance office-based leadership presence with remote working.

Leadership vacancies in highly specialized teams fill fast. At Randstad, we bypass the standard HR portal queues and send your CV directly to Wakefield's Service Manager.

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

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experience

Children services

skills

be able to manage challenging situations

qualifications

university

education

BA in social work