Safeguarding Officer

3 weeks ago

Aylesbury Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom Buckinghamshire Council Full time

Are you passionate about the safeguarding and welfare of children? Do you have experience in training, policy formation, and providing advice and guidance on safeguarding and child protection in an educational setting? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as an Education Safeguarding Advisory Officer.
This is a fixed term position until April 2025.
Buckinghamshire Council is a relatively new organisation that combines the strengths and expertise of the previous five councils in the county to create positive change for local people, communities, and businesses. It is an area of outstanding natural beauty and ranks as one of the top rural areas to live in the UK and yet it is incredibly well connected– only an hour from London on the train. The county has a rich history and heritage and is the birthplace of the international Paralympic movement.
You will be entitled to a range of different benefits to make sure you are happy both at work and at home.
You will be responsible for supporting schools and the local authority in safeguarding and welfare of children through training, policy formation, advice and guidance. This is an interesting and varied role, where you will have the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of children and their families. Devise, develop and implement training strategies with regards to child protection and safeguarding for a variety of needs within education
Monitor school’s performance on child protection and safeguarding matters
Provide advice, guidance and support to Designated Safeguarding Lead or child protection in schools and to other Education colleagues
Line management responsibilities for the Education Safeguarding Team, consisting of 3 direct reports.
We are looking for someone, with significant, relevant and recent experience of safeguarding in schools and effective child protection processes, excellent communication and line management skills, the credibility to build relationships with multi-agency partners and the ability to manage workload and work on their own initiative.
The successful candidate will have a teaching qualification or social work qualification or equivalent, and will have undertaken continual professional development and post-qualification training. The candidate will be able to demonstrate significant training and expertise relating to safeguarding in schools.
If you are passionate about keeping children safe and well, supporting a culture of vigilance and safeguarding to be developed in schools across Buckinghamshire and are keen to make a positive difference every day, we would love to hear from you.
Midnight on Monday 27th May 2024
Buckinghamshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, youngpeopleand adults at risk.
All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e.that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
health and well-being initiatives including an Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and mindfulness workshops
ongoing support, and the opportunity to develop and progress in your career with us
opportunities to take part in fun activities such as fundraising and social events
From dedicated staff networks overseen by our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Steering Group, to proudly standing as a Disability Confident employer, it’s important to us that all our colleagues feel engaged, listened to, and valued. Our offer of flexible working empowers a productive and happy workforce and allows employees to combine work with other responsibilities and commitments.
We believe our workforce should reflect the diverse communities we service in Buckinghamshire, and are looking for like-minded individuals to join us in promoting equality, fairness, and inclusion for everyone.
About the Business Unit
Ensuring that children and young people in Buckinghamshire reach their potential is a primary focus within our Education service. It’s essential that we provide inclusive and life-long learning opportunities for all of our young people - so we look to raise standards, attainment and aspirations in a number of ways.
Our key priorities include: improving the quality and timeliness of Education, Health and Care Plans and the support families of children with SEND receive; reducing the number of exclusions both permanent and fixed term; and providing the children of Buckinghamshire with the highest quality education possible.
We aim to provide the right support, at the right time for families requiring non-statutory intervention, and provide sufficient, high quality early years and school places for children in Buckinghamshire. We are keen to strengthen the services we deliver to provide the children of Buckinghamshire the highest quality education possible.
We actively encourage a good work-life balance and promote flexible and agile working arrangements. We provide discounts on various Cafés, restaurants, shops and auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme. We also offer a salary sacrifice personal car lease scheme to those who are eligible and have passed their probation period. In addition to the opportunity to gain membership to Costco, we have discounted gym memberships, travel discounts with Arriva and much more.
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