Job Title: Safeguarding Officer
Location: Rotherham
Salary: £20,052 per annum
Hours: 37 per week - Term Time only
Gi Group Recruitment are now seeking to appoint a Safeguarding Officer to our client based in Rotherham. The Safeguarding Officer is responsible for providing a high quality, responsive service to students faced with welfare and safeguarding issues, in accordance with statutory responsibilities.
Duties of the Safeguarding Officer:
Act as a first point of contact providing a confidential information and advice for all students on safeguarding related concerns including child protection disclosures.
Monitor and manage safeguarding referrals through ProMonitor ensuring interventions are timely and responsive, in line with child protection legislation and statutory guidance, Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSiE).
Ensure child protection records relating to student safeguarding information are accurately recorded and stored in line with statutory guidance.
Establish, maintain and develop effective relationships which engage students, especially those identified as being at risk of leaving their course or failing to achieve, to remove potential barriers, so that assistance and support can be offered within a professional relationship on an ongoing basis if appropriate.
Role Criteria:
Recent experience of working in a Safeguarding role in an education or community setting
Experience of working in a post 16 educational environment
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