Safeguarding Lead

Safeguarding Lead

We have a unique opportunity within a rapidly growing Organisation for an individual with an approachable attitude and a commitment to promoting a positive working environment to support all staff in matters of risk, safeguarding and child protection.

Position: Safeguarding Lead

Location: Liverpool/Hybrid

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week. (Would consider a job share with two people)

Salary: £28,226 to £32,798 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: Sunday 21st April 2024 at 23:59pm

Interview date: Wednesday 24th and Thursday 25th April 2024

The Role

The Safeguarding Lead will bring their extensive knowledge and experience to this role to offer the highest level of support for LE staff and all of our client groups (including children, young people and adults). There would be a requirement to take lead responsibility for safeguarding and child protection across the Organisation and take part in strategy discussions and inter-agency meetings.

They will advise, train, and support all members of staff on risk, incident, safeguarding, and child protection matters, and liaise with relevant third-party agencies such as the local authority and police.

The role is subject to receiving satisfactory references and a probationary period.

Main areas of responsibility include:

• To act as a source of support, advice, and expertise in managing safeguarding and clinical issues for LE staff.
• To be fully equipped to independently manage clinical risk safely and in line with all LE policies and procedures, in consultation with the member of staff raising a safeguarding concern.
• Coordinate the safe check-in and check-out of all clinical staff scheduled to work during the shift.
• Oversee the management of any risk/safeguarding concerns ensuring that relevant paperwork is completed and signed off within adequate timeframes.
• Support and advise staff to help them feel confident in dealing with risk, safeguarding and child protection matters.
• Support staff during the referral, triage and assessment process
• Liaise with the SMT and the local authority designated officer(s) (LADO) for child protection concerns in cases which concern a staff member
• Act as a point of contact and liaise with relevant 3rd party agencies/professionals on matters of risk, safeguarding and child protection
• Report cases to the police where a crime may have been committed
• Communicate relevant safeguarding issues to the SMT
• Work with the SMT to ensure that LE’s safeguarding and child protection policy is reviewed annually (as a minimum) and that the procedures and implementation are updated and reviewed regularly
• Understand the importance of information sharing, both internally and with safeguarding partners, other agencies and organisations ensuring that accurate records are shared confidentially

About You

You could already be working as part of a safeguarding team and looking for the next step in your career. You might have years of experience working in other sectors and are now looking for a change within a rapidly growing charity.

To succeed in the role of Safeguarding Lead you will have:

• Expert knowledge of legislation and guidance on safeguarding and working with vulnerable adults, children & young people, including knowledge of the responsibilities of other agencies
• Significant experience in managing risk and the policies, procedures, and process maps for escalating risk as appropriate through relevant third-party agencies
• Qualification and/or a minimum of three years’ experience in managing safeguarding in an education, community, health / social care setting
• Three years post-qualification experience working in a helping profession
• Ability to work with conflict and emotionally distressing content.
• Good knowledge and understanding of Trauma Informed Care and Adverse Childhood Experiences
• Experience in managing risk around single and complex trauma
• An understanding of mental health services in the voluntary sector

Benefits include:

• Face-to-face training, induction and warm welcome provided at our headquarters in the North West to meet colleagues and welcome you to the organisation
• Values-driven organisation supporting vulnerable people across England
• Work within a BACP-Accredited Organisation that delivers support recognised by the Support After Suicide Partnership and Public Health England as best practice
• Annual Training and CPD Allowance to support growth and career development
• We support flexible home working practices and you will be supplied with an iPhone and laptop, plus a DSE Assessment during induction to support safe and comfortable home working
• Access to free and confidential counselling provided through LE’s Insurance Provider, to support staff welfare
• Pension contribution at 3%
• Daily informal communications with colleagues via remote platforms
• Annual Christmas celebration with colleagues

To fulfil the role, you must abode within the UK and have the right to work in the UK.

About the Organisation

They are a leading third-sector, mental health organisation, with its headquarters in Knowsley, Merseyside. The organisation specialises in delivering therapy and support services to children, young people and adults presenting with bereavement and traumatic loss, occupational health counselling and suicide postvention support services.

Holding a full BACP Service Accreditation for its adult and CYP services (the first organisation to achieve BACP accreditation in Merseyside in 2004) the organisation is continuing to grow and now offers services in Merseyside, Cheshire, Lincolnshire, Essex, South Yorkshire, Coventry and Warwickshire, Kent & Medway, Thames Valley, Hampshire & the IOW and Lancashire.

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