Safeguarding Officer

4 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Place2Be Full time

About The Role

Together we can change children's lives. At Place2Be, we believe every child should have easy access to mental health support whenever they need it. We create a safe place in schools where children and young people can open up without pressure or stigma. Allowing our highly skilled and diverse counsellors to reach children, young people and their families who need us.

As a safeguarding officer, you'll be a vital part of the safeguarding team at Place2Be. Providing safeguarding training to all Place2Be staff and volunteers, across our regional and head office teams. While also providing advice, support, and guidance to Place2Be school-based staff around matters relating to child protection and safeguarding cases.

You'll have experience providing safeguarding and child protection advice and support to professionals working with children, young people and families with thorough knowledge of current legislation, guidance and thresholds on child protection. You'll have experience of delivering training and/or seminars to multi-agency groups

You're able to occasionally work non - standard hours and to travel throughout the UK to provide training to our services and teams.

For a career with purpose, this is your place.

Recruitment Process:

As part of your application you will need to answer some shortlisting questions. Please answer these as fully as you can, we recommend using the STAR model. Situation, Task, Action Result.

Closing date for application: 22th August 2024

Interview date: 27th August 2024

Our Benefits

When you work at Place2Be –whether that's in a school, supporting families, providing clinical supervision, or in IT, Finance, or Fundraising –every role can make the difference to a young person. To achieve this, we ask that you bring your best self to your role and our commitment to you, is to welcome you into our community, and help you progress. Because we know that you being at your best, means the best outcomes for the children we support.

Here's just a few things we have on offer:

  • Annual Leave that increases with service
  • Comprehensive learning and development to enable you to progress your career
  • 5% contributory pension scheme
  • Life assurance of four times your annual salary
  • A comprehensive employee assistance programme
  • Mobile Phone Discounts (EE network)
  • Wellbeing days to allow you some 'you' time
  • Christmas holidays closure period in addition to your annual leave

    We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented within our organization.

    Please note if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please apply asap.

    Safeguarding the young people we support is our top priority. We are committed to recruiting candidates who share this commitment to safeguarding, and we therefore apply robust recruitment and selection procedures to ensure all candidates are appropriate for the roles they apply for and are appropriately screened prior to appointment including DBS checks and social media background checks.

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