Safeguarding Officer, South Yorkshire

Safeguarding Officer 

37 hours per week over 37 weeks 

Permanent Opportunity

South Yorkshire-based College. 

£24,249 per annum (£20,052 pro-rata) + benefits

In this rewarding role, as Safeguarding Officer, you will provide a high quality, responsive service to students faced with welfare and safeguarding issues, in accordance with statutory responsibilities. 

You will work closely with the College Safeguarding Leads when making referrals to appropriate agencies. You will also be a first point of contact to provide an advisory service for staff when dealing with student welfare and safeguarding issues and act as a first point of contact providing a confidential information and advice for all students on safeguarding related concerns including child protection disclosures.

An important part of the Safeguarding Officer role is to monitor and manage safeguarding referrals through internal information systems (ProMonitor) ensuring interventions are timely and responsive, in line with child protection legislation and statutory guidance; Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSiE). You will therefore ensure child protection records relating to student safeguarding information are accurately recorded and stored in line with statutory guidance.

Our excellent benefits and rewards package:

• Access to local government pensions scheme
• Up to 41 days annual leave per year including closure during Christmas period
• Access to our gyms, restaurants and salons
• Staff health & wellbeing and benefits schemes including in-house Occupational Health service
• Full, part time and flexible working hours available in many roles
• Parking available at all of our sites
• Fantastic career development opportunities including funding for teacher training, apprenticeships and various other industry recognised qualifications
• Recruitment Referral Scheme for all employees worth by to £200 per referral made

You’ll have

• You should have recent experience of working in safeguarding in an education or community setting. 
• Experience of youth engagement, advice and guidance or education with young people.
• Ideally, your experience will be within post-16 education (FE) and involve managing a range of safeguarding cases.
• You will have a good working knowledge of confidentiality, child protection, data protection/consent and anti-discriminatory and trauma informed practice.
• Level 3 safeguarding qualification and have achieved a further Level 3 qualification in a general vocation (but this is not essential).
• A level 2 (or equivalent) qualification in English and Maths. 
• DBS on the update service (or be willing to apply for a new one)

Interested, click apply! 

As a Disability Confident business, we warmly encourage applications from people with disabilities. Protocol is committed to offering opportunities to people from diverse communities. If you have specific requirements or adjustments please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your application.

About Protocol

Protocol are the specialist full-service recruiter dedicated to education, training and skills. People are at the heart of everything we do. We place people first.

We’re more than a recruitment agency – we pride ourselves on our ongoing support and aftercare delivered by our expert team, and all our candidates benefit from free access to our exclusive online CPD portal, Learning Zone.

Whatever your career goals, we’ve got the right role for you. With a wide range of temporary and permanent positions available, from lecturing and training jobs to assessment and support staff roles, all with very competitive pay rates and benefits – your future is in good hands.

The Legal Bit

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