Are you passionate about safeguarding vulnerable children and ensuring their voices are heard?
Slough Children First (SCF) is looking for a dedicated Missing from Home Coordinator to join our Adolescent Service and play a vital role in supporting children who go missing from home or care.
In this role, you will coordinate our response to missing episodes, ensuring Return Home Interviews are allocated, completed within statutory timescales and used effectively to understand and reduce the risks faced by children and young people. You will work closely with social care teams, Thames Valley Police and a wide range of partner agencies to gather and share intelligence, identify emerging themes and support robust safeguarding and risk management planning.
The successful candidate will oversee the quality and effectiveness of Return Home Interviews, ensuring the child's voice is central to assessment and planning. You will analyse missing episode data, monitor trends and contribute to strategic and operational safeguarding discussions, helping to shape services and interventions that improve outcomes for vulnerable children.
This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled and motivated professional with experience of safeguarding, exploitation, contextual safeguarding or children's services. You will have strong organisational and partnership-working skills, a commitment to child-centred practice and the ability to manage information, data and competing priorities effectively.
Join us and help make a difference to the lives of children and young people across Slough by reducing missing episodes, identifying risks early and promoting safer futures.
We work on a hybrid basis, with a minimum of 3 days per week based in the office.
If you’re looking for a new challenge and want to be part of an exciting journey to turn children’s services around in Slough, then come and join us. In return, we can offer you:
- Training and development opportunities
- Agile working supported by technology
- Flexible working policies
- Friendly working environment and great colleagues.
Slough is one of the UK’s most diverse and well‑connected towns, offering a vibrant place to live and work just outside London. Ongoing regeneration and investment have enhanced local amenities, public spaces and employment opportunities, while the cost of living remains more affordable than central London. With direct trains to Central London in under 20 minutes and excellent road links via the M4, M25 and M40, Slough is an accessible and welcoming location to build your career.
Our Values and Commitment
We are driven by our vision to ensure Happy, Safe & Loved, Thriving children and young people. Our work is guided by strong values — being child focused, honest and respectful, improving constantly, looking ahead, and delivering together.
We are looking for people who share these values and are passionate about making a positive difference. In return, we offer a supportive, inclusive environment where collaboration, learning and care truly matter.
If this reflects who you are, we would love to hear from you!
