Safeguarding Officer

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Independent School Inspectorate Full time

Red Snapper Recruitment (RSR) is a public safety & enterprise security recruitment specialist.

We assist public safety employers find the right talent.

RSR Justice is a leading recruitment service provider for the offender management, specialist support and direct supervision roles.

We are working with The Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) to recruit Safeguarding Officer.

The role of the inspectorate is to provide assurance on the standards and quality of school life for over half a million children and young people

This an opportunity you to contribute by bring significant safeguarding experience and in-depth knowledge of relevant legislation, policy, procedures and good practice regarding children and young people.

You will be one of the first points of contact (together with the Safeguarding Lead) for all matters pertaining to Safeguarding concerns, to take action as appropriate and to maintain accurate records of actions, notifications, reports and records so that ISI maintains its record for high quality, reliable and secure inspection services.

Location: Central London/ Hybrid

Contract: Permanent

Work hours: Full time

**Salary**: £30,000 per year

Main Responsibilities:

- Be one of the first points of contact (together with the Safeguarding Lead) for safeguarding concerns received by ISI, and ensure all matters are dealt with in accordance with ISI’s Policy.
- Recording concerns/queries internally as and when they are received in an efficient manner. Sharing these concerns both internally and externally where necessary ahead of inspections.
- Liaising with various stakeholders such as the; DfE staff, LADOs and Children’s Social Care regarding concerns. Recording these contacts, and following up with actions accordingly.
- Summarise and log all concerns effectively - Maintain a summary sheet for each school detailing contacts, key issues, ISI actions and responses.
- Inputting contacts received into the tracker and keeping this up to date ready for daily concerns review meetings.
- Contribute to up-to-date list of Local Authority Designated Officers (LADOs) or teams for contact purposes
- Instigate, track, follow up and log contacts with other agencies, including LADOs to ensure information is available 4 weeks prior to inspection
- Follow up no response contacts from other agencies by phone where the inspection is deemed sensitive.
- Ensure that inspector records are kept up to date in relation to safeguarding or Prevent matters.
- Monitoring online databases/press for information about independent schools.
- Providing support to Directors/Duty Team on safeguarding and Prevent-related on-inspection issues.

Co-ordinating ISI response to incoming Prevent queries:

- Maintain accurate records and provide timely responses to Prevent queries from ISI staff
- Respond to Home Office enquiries as directed by line manager

Education
- DSL trained (desirable)

Skills and abilities
- Excellent IT skills
- Highly organised
- Ability to work under pressure and to specific timescales
- Ability to analyse data and present it in a variety of formats
- Attention to detail
- Ability to work within a team and autonomously
- Be able to manage with confidence and sensitivity points of contact which are of a challenging, conflict and difficult nature.
- Ability to respond calmly and proportionately in demanding circumstances
- Good general knowledge and awareness of current affairs
- Ability to deal with a range of stakeholders and provide good customer service
- Excellent people skills and relationship management
- Demonstrable ability to work across multiple projects and teams
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work with and manage sensitive and confidential matters in absolute confidence
- The ability to identify concerns/risk when managing concerns
- Ability to show initiative and work independently

Necessary Experience:

- Experience of safeguarding principles and effective practice
- Previous experience of working for a local authority or interfacing with a local authority - (including LADOs and other safeguarding partners)
- Computer literate with knowledge of all Microsoft Office products

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alternations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary

This role will require an enhanced DBS check and other vetting checks

RSR is member of the Red Snapper Group.

The Red Snapper Recruitment Group is an equal opportunities employer.

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