Senior Policy Officer

2 weeks ago


Cardiff, United Kingdom Cardiff Council Full time

**About The Service**
The Senior Policy Officer role is based within our Strategic Safeguarding Team within Cardiff Council. The Strategic Safeguarding team exist to facilitate cross-department and city collaboration to deliver on our safeguarding priorities, provide a platform for innovation through the delivery of priority improvement projects, identifying and sharing effective practice and supporting data-led practice through high quality analysis and insight reports. To support successful delivery since the expansion of the team’s programme of work, we are seeking to grow the team and require a motivated Senior Policy Officer to join our team and contribute to our team’s work to improve the outcomes and experience for children and adults at risk in the Welsh capital. This is a very exciting time to join the team as we work to develop new and innovate ways to ensure children and young people are safe in our city and the Local Authority and its partners fulfil their Safeguarding responsibilities to keep young people and vulnerable adults safe from harm.
**About the job**
The Strategic Safeguarding team have a varied and exciting programme of work, delivering research, joint projects, and policy advocacy to support Cardiff Council, children’s services and support safeguarding within the city. You’ll work as part of the Strategic Safeguarding area, to co-ordinate the implementation and delivery of our key objectives in order to achieve our safeguarding duties as an authority. Part of the role will involve supporting our migration and asylum team to increase safeguarding awareness and embed robust safeguarding mechanisms across this area of work. A knowledge of immigration policy would be advantageous. This will involve developing policies, procedures and toolkits to support practitioners working in this area, developing and delivering training and acting as the Designated Safeguarding Person (DSP) for this service, in line with our Corporate Safeguarding working arrangements. The positions will involve you playing a key role to: - Develop clear mechanisms to improve, embed and monitor safeguarding self-evaluation processes. Supporting service areas across the council to address identified gaps and areas for improvement relating to their corporate safeguarding responsibilities for both children and vulnerable adults. - Capture priorities and develop and articulate the strategic direction of the local authority and partners to respond to key issues through a contextual safeguarding approach. - Develop ways to monitor and evaluate progress. - Maintain and develop relationships with a diverse network of stakeholders - Develop ways to ensure the voice and lived experience of children young people and vulnerable adults is systematically embedded strategy development and implementation
**What We Are Looking For From You**
**Additional information**
Job Reference: PEO03552


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