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Prevention Officer - Wales (6026)

• Annual:29,155
• Location:Home Based, United Kingdom
• Group:
• Vacancy type:permanent with funding
• Closing date:5 April 2026

Permanent contract (subject to funding). Current end date of funding 31st March 2027.

35 hours per week

£29,155 per annum

Home Based within Wales

The Children’s Society has been helping children and young people in this country for over 140 years. We deliver essential local services that provide safe, trusted support to children and young people during times of significant need.

This role sits within our Youth Impact Domain, Your role will be to work regionally alongside the Police, Social Care and a range of other partners in the public, private and third sector to help prevent and improve responses to all forms of Child Exploitation (financial, criminal, sexual exploitation).

We are currently looking for an organized, innovative, problem solver with knowledge of child exploitation to join our dynamic, ambitious team.

A key part of this role will be your ability to drive forward systems change work to better prevent and improve responses to child exploitation and abuse. This will involve collaborative learning using a variety of delivery approaches including facilitation, training, resource creation, promising practice advice and guidance to explore new approaches to preventing and tackling child exploitation and abuse

The required skills and competencies for this role are

Skills:

• • Strong planning and organisational skills with ability to manage and drive forward own workload.
  • Ability to consider evidence of a problem and be critical and innovative in producing solutions with partners.
  • Strong communication, teamwork and motivation skills.
  • Ability to deliver engaging workshops/presentations with confidence and passion both in-person and virtually.
  • Ability to produce a range of written material.
  • Ability to represent the organisation in a professional, competent, and credible manner.
  • Ability to develop partnerships and support collaboration to facilitate and enable problem solving, innovation and adaptation
  • Good IT skills
  • Strong project management skills including an ability to use online planning tools.
  Knowledge:
  • Knowledge of current children’s and young people’s legislation and safeguarding best practice guidance and procedures.
  • Sound understanding of the issues facing young people at risk of exploitation, trafficking and modern slavery.
  • Knowledge and understanding of child and adolescent development and the impact of trauma.
  • Knowledge and understanding of relevant national, regional and local organisations, strategies and initiatives.
  • An understanding and commitment to diversity, inclusion and anti-racist ways of working.
  • Knowledge of problem solving and systems change approaches.
  Experience:
  • Multi-agency working, for example with statutory and voluntary sector partners in Wales.
  • Working within and managing effective and innovative projects or services for vulnerable children.
  • Working to and meeting deadlines and targets.
  • Developing and delivering learning sessions or problem solving workshops to different audiences.
  • Working to create positive change in a service or organisation.
  • Communicating to a range of audiences at all levels of seniority, through a range of different mediums.

It would also be an advantage if you have any of the following skills and competencies

• • Familiarity with local and regional police, local authority and/or health structures.
  • Experience of multiagency work at a strategic level
  • Working within a geographically dispersed team.
  • Experience of incorporating children and young people’s voices to inform systems change work with partners.
  • Welsh language

The Children’s Society runs over 100 local services that help thousands of young people who desperately need our support, and we campaign to get laws and policies changed to make children’s lives happier and safer.

Every day we’re changing the lives of children in this country for the better – and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more.

T he Children’s Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, which includes the disclosure of criminal records, vetting checks, and the provision of appropriate references. The number and type of references required may vary depending on the nature and responsibilities of the role, ensuring that each appointment is carefully assessed. We have a comprehensive range of policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices across all areas of our organisation.

The closing date for applications is midnight on Sunday 5th April 2026. We reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier if we receive enough applications. 

Interviews will be held between on April 20th, 21st and 22nd, although internal candidates at risk of redundancy may be considered earlier. 

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• Annual:29,155
• Location:Home Based, United Kingdom
• Group:
• Vacancy type:permanent with funding
• Closing date:5 April 2026