Safeguarding Team Leader (Fixed Term)

at  Leeds City College

About the Role
Fixed Term till March 2025
The Student Life team is responsible for the personal development, behaviour and attitude of all our Further Education students.
We directly deliver services to students - safeguarding, mental health and wellbeing are at the centre of what we do. The safeguarding team sits within the wider student life team and we work closely with curriculum departments to ensure arrangements are in place to effectively safeguard students and maintain and promote a culture of vigilance.
This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated, articulate and adaptable individual who embraces restorative and relational approaches in their every day practice.
The post-holder will work with the Safeguarding Manager to promote and maintain a culture of vigilance throughout the college, ensuring it is a safe space for students, staff and visitors. The post holder, as part of the Safeguarding Leadership Team will help deliver the strategic and developmental aims of the organisation. The post holder will safeguard children, young people, vulnerable adults and other adults at risk through supporting case management and escalation to external agencies. The Team Leader will provide direct line management and supervision to a team of specialist Stay Safe Officers across Luminate’s campuses. This will include performance management, appraisals and sickness monitoring.

What You Will Do

• Provide both ad-hoc and formal supervision to Stay Safe Officers and designated safeguarding officers, including recording supervision sessions and ensuring discussion around individual cases for part of the safeguarding case notes
• Line management of stay safe service staff including performance management appraisals and sickness monitoring
• Quality assurance and audit of the recording of safeguarding concerns providing individual coaching to improve and develop record keeping
• Plan and coordinate cross college safeguarding support, ensuring students have access to internal and external services
• Provide casework support for crisis and acute safeguarding referrals
• Drive the take up of services for 19+ students, monitor activity levels, ensure accurate recording and draw down funding for these students
• Lead the team to develop and implement innovative campaigns and projects using online and digital technologies, partnership working and curriculum resources
• Lead appropriate planning meetings within the team and across college
• Provide specialist advice, support, mentoring and training to designated safeguarding officers, coaching tutors, curriculum staff and business support staff in assessing and dealing with safeguarding issues
• Maintain up to date knowledge and training around safeguarding and vulnerability.
• Work with curriculum staff and learning leaders to design and produce resources for tutorial and individual support relevant to students at different stages and phases of learning

About You

• Degree or equivalent higher level qualification
• A recognised qualification or significant experience of working in a relevant area including safeguarding, pastoral support, health and wellbeing, social care, IAG, education or management
• Completed Designated Safeguarding Officer training at Level 2 or above.
• Ability to monitor the recording and reporting of safeguarding referrals on campus, using appropriate client record and MIS systems including CPOMS, ensuring processes are followed

About Us
Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training.
We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions - Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.
As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.
Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff and our stakeholders.
Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College (HC), Keighley College (KC), Leeds City College (LCC), Leeds Conservatoire (LC), University Centre Leeds, Leeds Sixth Form College and Yorkshire Centre for Training & Development.

• Provide both ad-hoc and formal supervision to Stay Safe Officers and designated safeguarding officers, including recording supervision sessions and ensuring discussion around individual cases for part of the safeguarding case notes
• Line management of stay safe service staff including performance management appraisals and sickness monitoring
• Quality assurance and audit of the recording of safeguarding concerns providing individual coaching to improve and develop record keeping
• Plan and coordinate cross college safeguarding support, ensuring students have access to internal and external services
• Provide casework support for crisis and acute safeguarding referrals
• Drive the take up of services for 19+ students, monitor activity levels, ensure accurate recording and draw down funding for these students
• Lead the team to develop and implement innovative campaigns and projects using online and digital technologies, partnership working and curriculum resources
• Lead appropriate planning meetings within the team and across college
• Provide specialist advice, support, mentoring and training to designated safeguarding officers, coaching tutors, curriculum staff and business support staff in assessing and dealing with safeguarding issues
• Maintain up to date knowledge and training around safeguarding and vulnerability.
• Work with curriculum staff and learning leaders to design and produce resources for tutorial and individual support relevant to students at different stages and phases of learnin