Designated Safeguarding Officer

1 week ago


Exeter, United Kingdom Exeter College Full time

**Salary**
- £29,299 - £31,002 (actual salary £28,006 - £29,634)

**Hours**
- 37 per week, 42 weeks per year

**Contract Type**
- Permanent

**Location**
- Exeter

**Closing Date**
- 26/08/2025

Caring but resilient? Great with teenagers? Meticulous and professional? You might be the next addition to our outstanding safeguarding team. Your role will be to work with students, parents, and external agencies to make sure our young people are safe. You’ll need to be caring and diligent, with great attention to detail and outstanding interpersonal skills. You’ll also need to be resilient with a sound understanding of professional boundaries.

Your role will be to work with students, tutors, teachers, social services, parents and other external agencies to ensure we’re doing everything we reasonably can to keep our young people safe. This will involve:

- maintaining a presence in staffrooms to provide advice and get involved early with safeguarding concerns
- meeting students to provide advice, assess risks, refer them to relevant support or involve other agencies to put a support plan in place
- keeping accurate records
- collaboratively working with the team to create college wide resources and staff training
- to attend multi-agency meetings (e.g. EH, CIN, and CP) relating to our young people

**Ambition, Collaboration, Energy.** These are our values. Watch this short video to learn more. And see what our staff have to say here.

**Benefits**

We’ll give you incredibly generous holidays and a superb pension scheme. You’ll also get a package of amazing benefits, including free counselling and discounted supermarket shopping, spa treatments, electric cars and paddleboarding. Read more on our careers page.

If you’re reading this advert on another site, visit our vacancies page.

**Interviews will be held in Exeter on 11th & 12th September 2025**

No CVs or agencies please.



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