Job Details
Job details – Safeguarding Coordinator - HC620422
Location – Southampton Civic Offices
Salary - Scale 5 - £29109.00 - £31296.00 - 12.5% shift allowance and 6.88 weekend enhancement
Hours – 37 per week - 6 week shift pattern with 1 duty weekend – covering duties from 0700 – 2000 Monday – Friday and 0700 – 1700 Saturday and Sunday
Contract – Permanent
Closing date – Sunday 06 April at 23.59 hours
About the Role
To work within Public Protection to enhance safeguarding and reduce risk to vulnerable victims, adults and children. Through research and preparing reports across domestic abuse and adult protection, working with external agencies and through face to face contact.
Key Accountabilities include but are not limited to :
1. To research, prepare and administrate written summaries, reports and chronologies for disclosure to partner agencies and for use by police representatives in a variety of Adult/Child safeguarding related meetings.
2. To receive, process and record child and adult referrals from police and agencies and to research and grade all Risk referral Forms and apply structured professional judgement/grading to them. This will also include assessing CSE/CCE (Child Sexual Exploitation/Child Criminal Exploitation) /Missing referrals.
3. To research the relevant police systems including RMS, PNC (Police National Computer) and PND (Police National Database) and intelligence concerning parties to vulnerable adults and child safeguarding enquiries and decision making as to what can be shared with external agencies, conforming with Information sharing protocols and GDPR.
4. To answer enquiries from Police Staff, Officers and external agencies regarding all areas of Public Protection, including CCE/CSE
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5. To create and maintain RMS occurrences, persons and addresses relevant to safeguarding enquiries. Ensure all flagging is completed and maintained and all links are kept relevant in respect of occurrences and persons.
6. To complete specific reports for HRDA/MARAC (High Risk Domestic Abuse/Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference) meetings utilising research on all relevant IT systems.
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Essential Qualifications
: Educated to QCF Level 3 OR work experience deemed to have brought the postholder to a comparable level.
Essential Experience
Experience in an agency environment with experience of participating in multi-agency meetings. Presenting information to meetings.
Report writing and communication skills- e.g. the production of clear, concise and accurate records and reports. Experience in evidence gathering including that gathered in an interview type setting.
To be computer/keyboard literate and a competent keyboard user.
Competencies and Personal Qualities
We are Emotionally Aware Level 1
We Take Ownership Level 1
We are collaborative Level 1
We Analyse Critically Level 1
Candidate Guidance for completing application form
Contact details for an informal discussion
Please contact the Recruitment Team at police.recruitment@hampshire.police.uk
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