Safeguarding Administrator

**Safeguarding Administrator**

**Location: Ealing - Hybrid working**

**Salary: £25,142 - 27,000 pro rata**

**Contract: Permanent, Part time, 17.5 hours per week**

**DBS check required: Enhanced**

**About us**
We’re a UK housing association committed to a new vision - providing homes people love to live in.

With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable and private rent, specialist housing services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.

Our 70,000 customers have diverse backgrounds and levels of income and we’re here to provide all of them with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable. And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit we make is reinvested into our charitable social purpose - delivering more homes and better services for customers.

We’re also members of the G15, a group of leading housing associations that work together to house one in ten Londoners and tackle the housing crisis.

**Role Overview**

Do you have a good level of administrative experience working in a customer centered environment with demonstrable technical knowledge and some understanding of safeguarding?

If so, we would love to hear from you.

This post is to work within a discreet safeguarding team that has an organisational wide responsibility for the effective case management of safeguarding. You will be responsible for assisting the team to support staff across the organisation to deliver effective safeguarding and achieving good outcomes in preventing and effectively responding to reports of harm, neglect and abuse.

We are looking for someone who has effective communication skills willing and able to collaborate both with our internal and external partners.

**Key responsibilities**:

- **Undertake a range of administrative duties and working as part of the safeguarding team and the wider business
- Assist with logging, updating safeguarding incidents and dealing with highly confidential information on dynamics system
- Support the administration of safeguarding group meetings, diary invites, taking minute, collate information and documents etc
- On-going communication and engagements with departments for feedback on safeguarding actions and updates
- Assist with logging contractors’ compliance data and follow-ups with departments for information to map the matrix database
- Provide administrative assistance with safeguarding updates and awareness for staff as required
- Provide admin support relating to associated safeguarding matters, such as audit preparations, safer recruitment, risk assessments and DBS admin support
- Support with audits and relevant accreditation preparations, organizing, creating folders and uploading relevant documents for assessments
- Assist with Local Authority compliance returns and any audit processes
- Take initiative, manage time and administrative priorities

**More about you**
- **Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Maths and English (Grades A*- C)
- Administrative experience working in a customer-centered environment, and dealing with people
- Excellent level of computer literacy. Ability to use MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint, MS Outlook
- Demonstrate ability to engage and communicate effectively with good networking and influential skills
- Demonstrate effective time management, takes initiative and excellent level of administrative skills

**Choosing us is easy**

As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:

- 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
- Up to 8% contributory pension
- Flexible working
- Investment in your learning and development.

In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.

We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.

Whatever the role, we want you to bring your knowledge and experience to play your part in improving people’s lives.

**A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will**:

- **actively look to attract and recruit disabled people
- provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process
- offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job
- be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job
- make reasonable adjustments as required

**Meeting the role requirements**

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