Lead profession Harmful Sexual Behaviour

Job Description

Organisation: London Borough of Waltham Forest- Youth and Family Resilience Service

Salary: PO5 £52,194 - £55,323
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract (12 months)

Working hours per week: 36

Application Deadline: 19/01/2026

Proposed Interview Date: TBC

Reference: 1862

About Us:

Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.

We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities. Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents.

London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard employers. This accreditation is a proof of our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression and diversity and recruitment.

About the role:

The HSB lead is responsible for coordinating services to children and young people who display sexually harmful behaviour, sexually inappropriate behaviour and/ or sexually offend.

You will work closely with schools and other professionals to offer advice and support on practice issues relating to sexual behaviours and work alongside practitioners to carry out AIM3 assessments and interventions both statutory and non-statutory. This will include carrying out school and home visits in order to complete interventions.

You will co-ordinate a borough wide training plan for AIM3 to include services such as; Schools, Foster carers, Social Workers, and Youth Justice and contribute to training to raise awareness in recognising and reporting sexually inappropriate and harmful sexual behaviour.

You will ensure effective and appropriate monitoring of requests / referrals / activities in order to maintain Information Systems and to inform evaluation of activities and the broader work of the service.

You will develop a borough wide Harmful Sexual Behaviour protocol outlining AIM's use and implementation and thresholds for appropriate assessment and interventions

You will carry out the requirements of criminal justice legislation, safeguarding legislation and other legislation and statutory guidance.

You will liaise closely with Youth Justice Service, Police, CAMHS and Children are Social Care; and ensure CAMHS are linked in where this is appropriate.

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Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the strategic direction of local services regarding harmful sexual and sexually inappropriate behaviours.
• Ensure the development in all aspects of the harmful sexual and sexually inappropriate behaviour service work, that victims are considered and safeguarded.
• Ensure all risk procedures are adhered to in order to manage the risk to children and young people and the community.
• Ensure effective and appropriate monitoring of requests / referrals / activities in order to maintain information systems and to inform evaluation of activities and the broader work of the service.
• Contribute to overarching sexual health strategy and be a link to the appropriate strategic groups.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Demonstrate clear and effective verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrate a commitment to anti-oppressive practice
• Demonstrate a sound working knowledge of legislation and guidance in relation to child protection and youth offending
• Demonstrate a sound working knowledge of child and adolescent development
• Have experience of assessment and delivery of a therapeutic intervention
• Demonstrate a sound working knowledge of best practice in working with children and young people who display sexually inappropriate and harmful sexual behaviours
• Demonstrate a sound working knowledge of the skills and strategies required to assess and intervene with children, young people and their families
• Demonstrate enthusiasm and commitment to working with professionals from a range of backgrounds
• Demonstrate an ability to plan, coordinate and deliver training to a wide range of practitioners across the children’s workforce
• Experience of using the AIM3 assessment model to carryout assessments relating to sexual harmful behaviour.
• Have the ability to effectively chair meetings and follow up agreed actions
• Demonstrate an understanding of risk management, including an awareness of MAPPA processes and procedures.
• Demonstrate the ability to plan and make effective decisions being aware of their implications.
• Demonstrate a willingness to undertake appropriate training and development.
• This role will require you to travel across the borough to schools and professionals in various locations.

Qualifications

• A professional qualification relevant to Health, Youth Justice or Social Services
• AIM 3 trained.

Terms and conditions:

The below terms and conditions apply to this role:

Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks;

Satisfactory declaration of interest;

This role is subject to safer recruitment practices as it involves work with children and/ or vulnerable adults;

Satisfactory DBS check;

As a public authority, we must ensure that members of staff in public-facing roles are able to speak fluent English. This means that they must have a command of spoken English, with confidence and accuracy, sufficient for the effective performance of their role. This requirement does not refer to any particular English language qualifications, regional or international accents, dialects, speech impediments or the tone of conversations. It does not require staff to speak only in English.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications online by pressing the ‘Apply’ button below. This includes a supporting statement that outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all. Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.

To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting. The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy.

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below or feel free to discuss this during your interview.

For more information on the benefits of working for the Council, please visit https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/find-jobs-and-other-opportunities/working-us.

Contact Information:

If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact Anne-Marie Koroma- Assistant Director for Youth and Family Resilience Service at anne-marie.koroma@walthamforest.gov.uk or 07776660067.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Recruitment Team via email at recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk.

The Council’s preference is for online application. However, if you have a disability and are unable to complete an online application, please email recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk so we can arrange an alternative application method.

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