Safeguarding Administrator

**About the Role**

Would you like to do a job that makes a difference and be part of a team whose aim is to improve the lives of children and families living in Cornwall?

Would you like to work for an organisation who has the following values embedded into everything that we do?
- Compassion
- Honesty & Integrity
- Trusting & Being Trustworthy
- Fairness & Respect
- Openness & Collaboration

We have a full-time vacancy for a Business Support Assistant whose core focus will be to support our Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO). The LADO Service supports and challenges agencies to work together effectively to safeguard children from neglect and abuse by professionals, volunteers and those in public office who have direct contact or responsibility for children. The LADO Business Support Assistant will deliver the full range of administrative functions to the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO).

The successful applicant will also work as part of the child protection conferencing team, supporting the ‘Children’s Rights Advocacy and Safeguarding Service’ (CRASS). The Children’s Advocacy Service works to ensure that children are central to the development and review of child protection and child in care plans, and that all professionals work together to improve outcomes for vulnerable children.

Duties will involve a range of tasks including;
- the monitoring of admin mailboxes;
- being a point of contact for the LADO and CRASS service, providing advice on the LADOs' roles and LADO process and signposting to appropriate services as requires;
- distribution of correspondence and reports, records management, meeting administration and detailed recording of complex meetings within strict timescales, and input of information to the Case Management System;
- be able to manage and prioritise workload effectively to meet statutory and non statutory deadlines,

This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

Whilst the location/work base for these roles has been specified, our evolving ways of working means that the role may require you to work remotely (e.g. from home/other locations). We work flexibly to most effectively support the people, services and organisations that we support and will discuss this with you during the recruitment process. There will be a requirement to assist with the delivery of business support within our core business hours, Monday - Thursday 08.45 - 17.15 & Fridays 08.45 - 16.45.

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options.

**About You**

Applicants should have 4 GCSEs (A-C), or equivalent, including English and Maths and have excellent keyboard skills. Experience of working in an office environment would be an advantage. Comprehensive training will be given and once established in the role, opportunities for career development will be available.

**About Us**

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.

Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Find out about working and volunteering for us.