Safeguarding Officer

Job Description

RSR Justice is a market leading recruitment business dedicated to providing top quality candidates and services to the offender rehabilitation and supervision work sectors.RSR are currently recruiting for a Safe Guarding Officer. This is a hybrid role, 3 days in office, 2 day working from home. Job Summary:Be one of the first points of contact (together with the Safeguarding Lead) for all matters pertaining to Safeguarding concerns, to take action as appropriate and to maintain accurate records of actions, notifications, reports and records so that ISI maintainsits record for high quality, reliable and secure inspection services.Main Responsibilities:

• Be one of the first points of contact (together with the Safeguarding Lead) for safeguarding concerns received by ISI, and ensure all matters are dealt with in accordance with ISIs Policy.
• Recording concerns/queries internally as and when they are received in an efficient manner. Sharing these concerns both internally and externally where necessary ahead of inspections.
• Liaising with various stakeholders such as the; DfE staff, LADOs and Childrens Social Care regarding concerns. Recording these contacts, and following up with actions accordingly.
• Summarise and log all concerns effectively - Maintain a summary sheet for each school detailing contacts, key issues, ISI actions and responses.
• Inputting contacts received into the tracker and keeping this up to date ready for daily concerns review meetings.
• Contribute to up-to-date list of Local Authority Designated Officers (LADOs) or teams for contact purposes
• Instigate, track, follow up and log contacts with other agencies, including LADOs to ensure information is available 4 weeks prior to inspection
• Follow up no response contacts from other agencies by phone where the inspection is deemed sensitive.
• Ensure that inspector records are kept up to date in relation to safeguarding or Prevent matters.
• Monitoring online databases/press for information about independent schools.
• Providing support to Directors/Duty Team on safeguarding and Prevent-related on-inspection issues.

Co-ordinating ISI response to incoming Prevent queries:

• Maintain accurate records and provide timely responses to Prevent queries from ISI staff
• Respond to Home Office enquiries as directed by line manager

Education

• DSL trained (desirable)

Skills and abilities

• Excellent IT skills
• Highly organised
• Ability to work under pressure and to specific timescales
• Ability to analyse data and present it in a variety of formats
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work within a team and autonomously
• Be able to manage with confidence and sensitivity points of contact which are of a challenging, conflict and difficult nature.
• Ability to respond calmly and proportionately in demanding circumstances
• Good general knowledge and awareness of current affairs
• Ability to deal with a range of stakeholders and provide good customer service
• Excellent people skills and relationship management
• Demonstrable ability to work across multiple projects and teams
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work with and manage sensitive and confidential matters in absolute confidence
• The ability to identify concerns/risk when managing concerns
• Ability to show initiative and work independently

Necessary Experience:

• Experience of safeguarding principles and effective practice
• Previous experience of working for a local authority or interfacing with a local authority - (including LADOs and other safeguarding partners)
• Computer literate with knowledge of all Microsoft Office products

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alternations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessaryThis role will require an enhanced DBS check and other vetting checksIf you would like to be considered for this position and have the relevant experience, then please email your CV.Due to the high volume of applications received, if you do not hear from us within 7 working days, I am afraid your application has been unsuccessful.RSR is member of the Red Snapper Group.The Red Snapper Group acts as an employment agency (permanent) and as an employment business (temporary) - a free and confidential service to candidates.The Red Snapper Recruitment Group is an equal opportunities employer.