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SalarySafeguarding Officer
- Reports to: Line Manager
- Location: Swindon
- Salary: up to 32,000
- Type: Full time
Dovetail and Slate are recruiting on behalf of a leading education provider based in Swindon.
Please note this role requires an ASAP start!
Role Purpose
- To provide a high quality, responsive service to students faced with welfare and safeguarding issues.
- To be a first point of contact to provide an advisory service for staff when dealing with student welfare and safeguarding issues.
- To work with the Safeguarding Leads when making referrals to appropriate agencies.
Responsibilities
- Provide support to student who have made disclosures of a safeguarding nature.
- Provide guidance to staff who have concerns around student safety.
- Support external learner related meetings as required.
- Report on current trends and explore external support who can provide guidance direct to staff and students.
- Provide an advisory service for staff in dealing with student safeguarding concerns.
- Monitor and manage safeguarding referrals through ProMonitor ensuring interventions are timely and responsive
- Ensure child protection records relating to student safeguarding information are accurately recorded
- Establish, maintain and develop effective relationships which engage students
Requirements
- Experience of working in safeguarding in an education or community setting.
- Experience of working in an educational environment.
- Ability to establish, sustain and disengage from relationships with clients.
- Knowledge of confidentiality, child protection, data protection and anti-discriminatory /oppressive practice.
- Ability to work effectively on own initiative without close supervision and manage own workload.
If this role is of interest, please send your CV through to James Grace at Dovetail & Slate.
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