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Safeguarding and Wellbeing Officer

Randstad Care
Posted 3 days ago, valid for 17 days
Salary

£16.83 - £5 per hour

Contract type

Part Time

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  • Randstad is seeking a Safeguarding and Well-being Officer for Belfast Metropolitan College, focusing on student support interventions related to abuse and learning barriers.
  • The position offers a salary of £16.83 per hour and requires either a relevant qualification with 2 years of experience in a similar role or 4 years of experience working with young people.
  • This role entails acting as the campus Safeguarding Officer, providing emotional support and advocacy to vulnerable students, and implementing operational procedures for assessing educational barriers.
  • The position is full-time at 36 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with benefits including an enhanced holiday package, onsite discounted parking, and access to a canteen.
  • Candidates will undergo enhanced vetting due to the sensitive nature of the work involved.

Randstad are recruiting for a Safeguarding and Well-being Officer to join the existing team at Belfast Metropolitan College

The Safeguarding and Student Well-being Officer will provide a support intervention service focusing on identifying and reporting abuse and enabling students to overcome the barriers they face to their learning.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work at one of the UK's largest FE / HE colleges
  • £16.83 per hour - Band 5
  • 36 hours per week - Monday to Friday
  • Canteen
  • Enhanced holiday package
  • Titanic Quarter Campus
  • Onsite discounted parking

Requirements

  • Hold a relevant qualification - Diploma / Foundation Degree or above and 2 years experience in a similar role OR 4 years experience working with young people to overcome barriers to their educational success
  • Experience of providing support, advice and guidance to young people
  • Experience of implementing a range of support interventions necessary to meet the needs of individualstudents enabling them to overcome their barriers to education and learning.
  • Candidates will be subject to enhanced vetting and compliance due to the nature of this work

Responsibilities

  • To act as campus Safeguarding Officer, providing first line response to disclosures of abuse/ suspected abuse
  • Receive information from any staff, volunteers, children, parents or carers who have safeguarding concerns and record it and refer as appropriate
  • To proactively engage with the colleges most vulnerable students across all curriculum areas and provide one to one emotional support and advocacy
  • To provide an information, advice and guidance service to all Belfast Metropolitan College students across all campuses
  • To implement and maintain a set of operational procedures and codes of good practice in relation to the assessment of student barriers to education and learning

A more detailed description with a full list of duties is available on request

Randstad Business Support acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Business Support is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.