Safeguarding and Wellbeing Officer (Fixed Term Maternity Cover)
Ref: MAT
Hours: 37 hours per week during term time for 40 weeks per year
Salary: £25,118 - £25,737 per annum.
Plus generous benefits, including: Occupational Pension Scheme
About the role
As a Safeguarding and Wellbeing Officer, you’ll play a vital role in delivering impactful health and wellbeing and safeguarding initiatives across the College. You’ll be a key presence in our Wellbeing Hub, offering day-to-day support through drop-ins and booked appointments. Your work will include delivering engaging tutorials and group sessions on topics such as mental health, healthy relationships, substance misuse, and more. You’ll also take the lead in planning and coordinating college-wide safeguarding and wellbeing events and awareness campaigns, working closely with both internal teams and external partners.
You’ll be instrumental in developing and maintaining a bank of relevant resources, ensuring our materials reflect current local and national trends. Your role will also involve gathering feedback from students to help shape and improve our services, as well as contributing to the creation of content for the College website. From supporting student inductions to helping evaluate the impact of our services, your work will be varied, meaningful, and student focused.
About the person
We’re looking for someone with experience in a safeguarding, health and wellbeing or further education setting, who brings excellent communication and organisational skills. A strong understanding of the challenges young people face today, along with a proactive, creative, and resilient approach, will be key to your success in this role. Most importantly, you’ll be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and apprentices.
The role is fixed-term for up to one year to cover a period of maternity leave, the ideal start date would be the 2nd November 2026.
About the College
York College & University Centre is the largest further education college in the region, offering a comprehensive range of courses from Entry Level to degree level. We are committed to upholding our values of ambition, care, respect and success, and are dedicated to providing the highest standards of education and support to all our students and apprentices.
We have approximately 4,200 school leavers, 1,200 apprentices, 2,000 adult students, and 400 higher-level students studying with us.
With a vibrant working environment, excellent transport links to the city centre and surrounding area, plus on-site parking, you will find York College to be fulfilling and supportive place to work. As a member of College staff you will have full use of the College facilities including free gym membership at the Athletic Suite, our brand new state of the art gym.
Please visit our website: www.yorkcollege.ac.uk
Want to know more?
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Astrid Croasdale (Safeguarding and Wellbeing Manager) [email protected]
Staff benefits & Important notices
You can find full details on our job vacancies page, just below the current vacancies: Job Vacancies | York College & University Centre. Be sure to explore the range of additional benefits and perks that make York College a brilliant place to work.
Please note that we do not accept CV applications. If you are viewing this vacancy through any job board then please go to our website www.yorkcollege.ac.uk/job-vacancies and apply using our application form.
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Closing date: 21st September (9am)
Interview date: 28th September
