Children's Missing Advocate

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Basis Full time

Job profile for Children's Missing Advocate

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Salary £33,119 - £35,570 & Excellent Benefits Contractual hours 37 Basis Full time Region Rotherham Job category/type Social Care Date posted 21/10/2026 Job reference REQ
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Directorate - Children and Young People's Services

12 months Fixed Term Contract to cover maternity leave, Full Time, 37 hours per week. Monday-Friday 8:30-17:30

Now is the time to come and work for Rotherham Council Children and Young People’s Service. For more information about Rotherham Social Care jobs, please visit:

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Evolve Service in Rotherham. The Evolve Service compromises of a multiagency team including Social Workers, Missing Advocates, Police, Nurse and Family Support Workers and works with some of the most vulnerable young people in Rotherham who go missing from home or care and/or are victims of exploitation.

The successful candidate will be based in Rotherham and will work closely with the team to complete Return Home Interviews and direct work with children and young people in the borough.

There is a statutory duty on the local authority to ensure that return home interviews are undertaken with children and young people who have been missing from home or care. The purpose of these interviews is to identify risks to the young person; including the risk of sexual and/or criminal exploitation, to share safeguarding concerns to relevant agencies and to explore the circumstances that have led to a missing episode.

As a Missing Advocate, you will undertake high-quality interviews with young people to undertake a return home interview within 72 hours and record the interview as a report for the responsible local authority. Some young people regularly go missing and therefore there is scope within this role to undertake preventative and longer-term pieces of work.

We are looking for someone who is able to engage with young people who have missing from home, advocate on their behalf and conduct return interviews within specified timescales. This is a fast-paced environment, and any candidate would need to be flexible, dynamic and be able to work as part of a multi-agency team. Communication and interpersonal skills, as well as experience of working in partnership with child, young people and their families and carers, is a key requirement for this role.

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