Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
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A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
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Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
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Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
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Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
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Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
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Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
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Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
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Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
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An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About the role
This is a rare and important opportunity to take a leading role across Cambridgeshire in shaping how we respond to children who have engaged in Harmful Sexual Behaviour (HSB) and Child Sexual Abuse (CSA).
As the HSB Support Coordinator, you will provide strategic and operational leadership for a developing, specialist service that supports children, young people, families and professionals where harmful sexual behaviour is a concern. Working at the heart of a complex multi‑agency partnership, you will ensure that responses are safe, proportionate, trauma‑informed and rooted in evidence‑based practice.
This role has a county‑wide remit across Children’s Services and Education, offering the opportunity to influence practice, policy and outcomes at both strategic and frontline levels.
Interviews will take place on 30 June 2026.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Darren Minns Team Manager on 07789652430.
What will you be doing?
You will lead and coordinate the HSB and CSA service, ensuring robust safeguarding, risk management and high‑quality professional practice. This will include:
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Providing strategic leadership and direction for HSB work, including service planning, partnership priorities and policy development
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Coordinating and overseeing complex assessments and interventions, including AIM‑based assessments and multi‑agency decision‑making
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Acting as a specialist advisor to professionals across Social Care, Youth Justice, Education, Police, Health and partner agencies
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Ensuring effective multi‑agency governance, quality assurance and performance oversight
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Contributing to and chairing safeguarding forums, strategy discussions and public protection processes where required
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Supporting and developing the workforce through training, practice leadership, supervision and consultation
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Maintaining clear oversight of service activity, performance data and reporting to ensure accountability and continuous improvement
This role combines strategic influence with hands‑on specialist practice and will suit someone who thrives in complex, high‑impact work.
About you
You will be a confident, values‑led professional with strong safeguarding expertise and the credibility to influence practice across agencies. You will bring:
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A relevant professional qualification (e.g. Social Work, Psychology, Nursing) and current professional registration
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Strong knowledge of HSB and CSA, including assessment, risk management and intervention
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Experience of working in multi‑agency safeguarding environments, contributing to complex decision‑making
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Working knowledge of the AIM Framework and its application in practice
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The ability to exercise sound professional judgement, including making defensible decisions in challenging circumstances
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Excellent communication, influencing and report‑writing skills, with confidence chairing professional meetings
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A commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion and safeguarding, and to improving outcomes for children and young people
You will be resilient, reflective and motivated by the opportunity to lead meaningful change in a demanding but rewarding area of practice.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
