36 hours per week over 38 weeks - Term Time only contract (FTE 0.88) Are you an experienced safeguarding practitioner with a strong drive to make a difference? We are looking for a motivated individual to join our established team of Wellbeing and Safeguarding Advisers. If you are passionate about keeping students safe, removing barriers to learning, and helping every student reach their full potential, regardless of their starting point, we would love to hear from you. Benefits: As a support colleague you’ll go into the Local Government Pensions scheme and enjoy some really great benefit’s as well, Free on-site Gym at Beaufort Road, Beauty treatments and haircuts, Health care cash plan via Simply Health, saving clubs via Manchester Credit Union, Cycle to work. Costa Coffee on site, Onsite bakery products at Tameside One, The Restaurant at Tameside One, Retail discounts, Refectories on all sites. Here’s the standard bit: you will manage complex safeguarding cases as directed by the Wellbeing and Safeguarding Manager, including but not limited to child protection and mental health crises reported to the Wellbeing and Safeguarding Team. You will have up to date knowledge of Safeguarding practices and procedures. You will have experience of providing student support and safeguarding in a post 16 environment. You will have the ability to work under pressure, using you on own initiative and you will have a positive “solution focused” approach in dealing with learners and staff cross college. Ability to communicate a positively and promote safeguarding support. What you’ll need: Resilience and outstanding interpersonal skills in building good working relationships, use negotiating and diplomacy skills in dealing with other college staff, parents/carers, outside agencies, with a relevant level 3 qualification in safeguarding or wellbeing or equivalent coupled with a level 2 qualification in Literacy and Numeracy knowledge. Please see the person spec and JD for further information. About us: Tameside College has an excellent reputation and this is a real opportunity for you to make a difference in people’s lives. We’re based in Ashton-Under-Lyne, Greater Manchester in a diverse and vibrant further education college that offers a wide range of course including A level and advanced level vocational study programmes, Apprenticeships and adult courses up to degree Level. We aim to give all our students an exceptional experience. We believe in excellence and we back that up with high expectations, a superb working environment (as part of the Vision Tameside £100 million accommodation strategy) and outstanding teaching. We also believe that attending college is about more than achieving a qualification, important though that is. This is why we aim to give learners every opportunity to develop their full potential in a supportive and friendly environment. Subject to volume of applications, we may decide to close the vacancy early. Come join us on our journey to outstanding Recruitment Agencies: We are not utilising the service of recruitment agencies for this vacancy and will accept direct applications only. Any CV’s forwarded for this vacancy will be treated as a gift and not subject to your terms and conditions.