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Safeguarding Officer
National charity
£35,500 per annum including car allowance
Permanent
Oxford – on site with flexible working
Full time 35 hours per week with flexible working
Benefits: Excellent pension scheme, contribution of up to 10%, life assurance from day one and access to the Employee Assistance Programme
Do you have experience of safeguarding with an understanding of practices and legislation? Are you keen to work in a role where you can make a tangible difference to people's lives, promoting a safe environment for everyone?
Charity People are working with a well-established charity who are supporting farming communities, offering practical aid, financial assistance, and mental health support throughout England and Wales, to recruit a talented Safeguarding Officer.
The charity offers tangible, financial, and mental health support. Their funding initiatives enable farmers to attain financial stability. Their mental health support contributes to fostering emotional resilience, enabling individuals to effectively navigate challenges within the farming community. These resources are augmented by the round-the-clock hotline and a network of Support Managers across regions, delivering expert counsel and guidance. This is an exciting time to join a growing team, and this role will contribute to transforming safeguarding across the organisation.
The Role
The Safeguarding Officer will champion safeguarding practices and procedures, ensure compliance with policies and procedures, drive engagement and awareness with staff, volunteers and external teams around safeguarding, and embed a strong culture of safeguarding across all teams.
Key responsibilities
- Support the Designated Safeguarding Lead in developing and enhancing safeguarding practices, including creating and delivering training plans and materials.
- Oversee safeguarding systems such as CPOMS, ensuring effective management, follow-ups, reporting, and providing guidance to enhance understanding.
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to address safeguarding themes, share trends, and contribute to best practices while maintaining compliance.
- Provide practical safeguarding support to regional teams, ensuring escalations are handled effectively and building confidence in safeguarding practices.
What we are looking for
To be successful in this role, you will need to be able to demonstrate the following in your supporting statement:
- Experience of working as a Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
- Relevant up to date training in the specialist area of Safeguarding
- Knowledge of safeguarding practices and legislation
- Knowledge and experience of statutory agency practices and multi-agency working
- Ability to distinguish between observation, facts and information gained from others and confidently assess risk in a time sensitive manner
- Excellent communication, report-writing and recording skills
- Experience of providing safeguarding support to staff and volunteers working with adults and children who may be at risk of harm, their families and carers
- Experience of using data recording systems
- Confident working on own initiative and in communication and presenting to a wide range of staff and volunteers
- Highly organised and can manage multiple tasks and priorities
- Flexible, resilient and solution focussed working with sensitivity, integrity and without prejudice
If this role has resonated with you and you would like to be part of something truly rewarding, where your skills and dedication will make a tangible difference in the lives of others, then we would love to hear from you.
How to apply
The application process is CV and supporting statement. Please reach out to Jen D’Souza at Charity People to apply and for more information about the role: Jen@charitypeople.co.uk.
Due to the nature of the role, we are accepting applications and interviews are taking place on a rolling basis. Please do reach out if this impacts you in any way.
Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We match charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.
