Designated Safeguarding Lead

**Who are we?**

Kibble supports at risk children, young people, and vulnerable adults (aged 5-26) across the UK. Many of the young people we care for have experienced significant trauma in their lives and Kibble offers dedicated care and support to help them move forward. This includes residential care, secure care, fostering, adoption, and community support, as well as dedicated schools and wellbeing services. Kibble is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. All staff and volunteers are therefore expected to behave in such a way that supports this commitment.

We are seeking a Designated Safeguarding Lead to drive forward safeguarding support and delivery across our services. You will be responsible for ensuring statutory procedures are followed to appropriately respond to safeguarding concerns that may be raised regarding children, young people, and vulnerable adults in our care.

You will be an energetic and self-directed individual who will drive forward the safeguarding agenda at Kibble. You will ensure the early identification of the signs and symptoms of abuse or individuals at risk, to comply with legislation and local and national policy relating to safeguarding practice, and to appropriately report and act on safeguarding concerns relating to children, young people, and vulnerable adults. Along with a small team of safeguarding advisors, you will have responsibility for delivering and monitoring Kibble’s safeguarding activities. Working across all areas of the organisation you will ensure the wellbeing and safety of our children and young people is at the centre of all that we do, and ensure compliance is built in throughout our services.

**The role will include**:

- Ensuring Kibble is meeting its legal and statutory requirements in relation to safeguarding
- Undertaking regular review and analysis of safeguarding policy and activity, and when necessary, updating safeguarding policies and procedures.
- Ensuring that safeguarding policies, procedures and practices are fully implemented and adhered to by all staff, students, and volunteers
- Providing support, supervision and advice for any staff member, child, or young person with a safeguarding concern
- Ensuring that their own knowledge, skills, and abilities are kept up to date by accessing appropriate resources and training
- Ensuring safeguarding induction for new staff, students, and volunteers
- Ensuring that all staff are trained to the required standard in safeguarding children and adults by overseeing Kibble’s safeguarding provision
- Keeping all staff informed of good practice and changes to legislation and guidance
- Ensuring the referral obligations to the appropriate agencies are implemented
- Liaise closely with Senior Leadership Team, ensuring they are informed and up to date with any concerns, referrals, escalations, and ongoing investigations
- Liaising with and making referrals to appropriate agencies about individuals where there are safeguarding concerns, including, Local Authorities, Police Scotland, and the Care Inspectorate
- Managing allegations against staff, students, or volunteers
- Managing and conducting internal child protection investigations.
- Reporting to regulators on Kibble’s safeguarding activity and standards
- Monitoring and quality assuring a range of Kibble systems and processes that have crosscutting safeguarding content.
- Working in partnership with Who Cares Scotland to promote participation, advocacy, and young people’s voice across all services.
- Overseeing Kibble’s Delivering Equally Safe Programme
- Fulfilling the role of “Club Wellbeing and Protection Officer” at St Mirren F.C which forms part of Kibble’s Young workforce Development Prgramme.
- Liaising and networking with universities, government, and local authorities to maintain best practice in Safeguarding
- Collecting, collating, and presenting data on safeguarding matters across all services
- Preparation of reports
- Developing and managing clear, accurate and secure record keeping systems
- Participation in an on-call rota
- Management of resources identified to reduce risk and embed good safeguarding practices

**Person**
- An experienced and registered health and social care professional (_Social Worker, Nurse, Residential Child Care Worker_)
- In possession of, or be willing to work towards, a post graduate qualification in child protection
- Knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding of Children and vulnerable adult agendas, particularly in the context of residential child care.
- Knowledge of national policy/research and legislation relating to the Safeguarding agenda.
- Knowledge and understanding of health and social care workforce regulations and standards
- Excellent knowledge and experience of multidisciplinary working and ability to work collaboratively with local authorities, where appropriate, to safeguard children and young people
- Highly dev