SALARY £28,786-£30,690 PER ANNUM PLUS EXCELLENT BENEFITS

The Role:
We are seeking a highly skilled safeguarding and welfare practitioner to join our Safeguarding & Welfare team; the team are responsible for ensuring effective safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all students. Our purpose is to create an environment where students feel safe and can achieve their full potential.

The successful candidate will be able:

• To support in the day to day operational safeguarding and welfare provision for the college
• To effectively advise, coach and influence safeguarding and welfare referrals at all levels for students that attend the college
• To ensure all staff know how to raise safeguarding concerns and understand the symptoms of abuse & neglect
• To safeguard, support and implement effective individual action plans for students that have Complex Safeguarding concerns including Forced Marriage, So-Called Honour Based Violence, Domestic Violence, Peer on Peer abuse and Youth Violence,
• To represent the college and participate in appropriate external networking meetings and training sessions including strategy discussions and multi-agency meetings
• To contribute to the continuous development of college systems to improve their effectiveness and efficiency to ensure effective safeguarding
• To build and develop contact and working relationships with multi-agency teams across the Borough and wider networks.

ANY APPOINTMENTS WILL BE SUBJECT TO ENHANCED DBS CHECKS AND A CHECK OF THE DFE BARRED LIST

Further details including a Person Specification are included within the attached Job Description.

THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT ROLE

Our Designated Safeguarding Lead, says “Here at Oldham College we believe all students deserve a rewarding educational experience that can create opportunities, change lives and lead to an exciting future. We are passionate about ensuring each student feels safe so that they can achieve their full potential. Our excellent team of safeguarding and welfare officers is ready to expand and add another skilled safeguarding practitioner to our growing team to continuously promote our safeguarding and prevent agenda, have a whole college approach to emotional and mental wellbeing in a trauma informed way.”
Only candidates who have not applied for this role in the past sixth months will be considered,