Safeguarding Lead

**Job Reference**

JOB00000352

**Location**

Greenwich

**Salary**

£35,782 - £37,722 inclusive of London Weighting where appropriate

**Vacancy Type**

Permanent/Full Time

**Working Hours**

37.5 hours per week

**Application Deadline**

28 August 2023

**Job Summary**

**The Role**

Key to this role is the opportunity to develop and hand over a robust and transparent safeguarding framework that ensures a legacy of excellent safeguarding practice.

As the safeguarding lead, you will be required to engage with frontline staff, parents/carers living in the borough who are involved in problematic drug and/or alcohol misuse to minimise the impact on their children.

You will:

- be a key part of the management team, working with the service manager you will proactively engage your peers to support the frontline staff to develop excellent safeguarding practice throughout the service.
- where necessary, complete parental needs assessments, conduct home visits in conjunction with frontline staff to develop skills and knowledge in those staff.
- develop systems and pathways that ensure safeguarding of service users, children and those in our community are safeguarded from harm and abuse.
- work within the central hub and across multi-agency settings and will engage parents/carers known to the service, those who have disengaged, and those with an identified substance misuse need who are not yet known to the service.

**The Service**

Launched in 2020, Via Greenwich is a fully integrated substance misuse service, providing clinical and psychosocial interventions, operating from a main treatment hub in Woolwich. The team actively promotes recovery and works with individuals that are directly and indirectly affected by substance misuse, working with the local community to improve the health, wellbeing and functioning of Greenwich residents, irrespective of circumstance.

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities - visit our Benefits Package

Interviews are likely to take place week commencing **8 September 2023.**

Via welcomes enquiries from everyone, and we value diversity in our workplace. Our commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process.

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**_ or call 020-8921-8977_**

Organisation
- Charity/ Social Enterprise
- Reference
- REC/23/00605
- Salary Details
- £35782 - £37722
- Additional Allowances
- inclusive of London Weighting where appropriate
- Location Postcode
- Greenwich
- Job Term and Hours per Week
- Permanent; 37.5 hours per week
- Closing Date
- 28 August 2023 11:00 PM
- For more details of this job, please contact