Safeguarding is at the heart of everything we do, and we're looking for an experienced professional to help us continue delivering safe, high-quality services across our organisation.
As our Safeguarding Lead, you'll work alongside our teams to strengthen safeguarding practice, ensure compliance with local and national guidance, and help embed a positive safeguarding culture across Centre4.
Key tasks and responsibilities:
Planning
- Work with Line Manager to develop operational and project plans for area of work.
- Remain up to date with local and national policy and activity to ensure that services align and meet community need.
- Ensure effective engagement and networking communities, authorities, partners and all stakeholders to support project objectives, with an eye on identifying opportunity, potential partnerships and wider Centre4 projects.
Delivery
- Work with the team to deliver services that meet the needs of the community and beneficiaries, with a focus on empowerment and positive outcomes.
- Hold responsibility for safeguarding practice across projects, as Designated Officer, ensuring all delivery meets compliance and organisation, local and national policy and guidance.
- Ensure projects are delivered to meet all external compliance and action plans.
- Ensure all complaints are dealt with according to policy and procedure and learning influences future practice.
Safeguarding specific role
- Support the implementation of safeguarding processes across services, working under the direction of senior leadership (Head of Service/DSL), ensuring concerns are managed in line with organisational, local, and national guidance.
- Take a supporting role in the day-to-day use of MyConcern, ensuring safeguarding concerns are accurately recorded, updated, and followed through, and supporting colleagues to use the system confidently and consistently.
- Use data and reporting from MyConcern and other systems to support basic analysis of safeguarding activity, identifying trends, gaps, and areas of risk to inform team practice and service improvement.
- Work across teams to develop a shared understanding of safeguarding cases, supporting staff to recognise risk, understand thresholds, and consider the wider organisational implications.
- Assist in identifying and escalating high-risk or complex safeguarding concerns to senior leads, contributing to decision-making through effective information gathering and case oversight.
- Monitor safeguarding activity and highlight emerging themes or patterns, feeding into organisational learning, preventative approaches, and improved service delivery.
- Supporting the continual improvement of systems and policies
- Support the delivery of safeguarding briefings, training, and reflective practice sessions to embed a strong safeguarding culture across the organisation.
- Contribute to maintaining effective working relationships with internal teams and external partners to support coordinated safeguarding responses.
Leading teams
- Work with Line Manager to ensure that sufficient staffing and volunteer levels are recruited and maintained to deliver effective service and organisation objectives are met in relation to area of work.
- Line management responsibilities for allocated team members ensuring continuous training and development, targets and objectives are met to high standards with a focus on team health and wellbeing and retention of staff.
- Ensure effective team working, building harmonious and collaborative working across teams, the wider organisation and Centre4 family.
- Oversee the supervision of volunteers assigned to area of work to ensure safe and effective training, delivery and supervision.
Compliance and quality
- Safeguard children and vulnerable adults from harm and report concerns in accordance with Centre4’s internal and external referral arrangements.
- Always operate within health and safety procedures.
- Ensure lone working practices are minimal and thoroughly risk assessed pertinent to individual circumstances.
- Conduct risk assessments ensuring that teams are equipped to deliver safe services providing responsive support and guidance.
Monitoring and evaluation
- Work with Line Manager to design and oversee monitoring and evaluation frameworks to assess impact and delivery against objectives as appropriate.
- Provide reporting and monitoring as needed, ensuring teams monitoring and evaluation requirements are met.
Working for Centre4
- Uphold the ethos of Centre4 in all work and be a positive ambassador for the organisation.
- Comply and engage with all policy and procedure adopted by the organisation.
- Be committed to an inclusive approach to working that values and engages all our community and stakeholders.
- Maintain safe and high standards of practice in all work.
Other duties
The above is a non-exhaustive list of duties and you are expected to undertake any other duties as requested by your Line Manager. The organisation reserves the right to amend the job description in line with the changing demands of the business.
Pay: £17,232.80 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
Work Location: In person
