Safeguarding Manager
Harlow College
Essex
- £45,526 per year
- New
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 6 September 2024
Job overview
Are you passionate about safeguarding and well-being in education? Do you have the experience and drive to lead a dedicated team in ensuring the safety, wellbeing and mental health of students? If so, we want you to be a part of our dynamic college community!
Safeguarding Manager
Harlow College
Salary: £45,526 per annum
Full-time
Permanent
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage and guide the College’s Safeguarding & Well-being team, ensuring a proactive approach to student welfare.
- Act as DDSL when required, representing the college at inter-agency events and managing referrals to external agencies, including Social Care and Prevent.
- Coordinate and undertake safeguarding case work, ensuring the effective operation of the safeguarding team.
- Assist in updating and implementing the college’s Safeguarding Policies and procedures.
- Manage safeguarding records, data, and reporting, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
- Oversee remedial actions required from inspection reports and audits related to safeguarding.
- Develop and implement mental health strategies to assist with Mental Health Risk Assessments.
- Provide training and support to college staff on safeguarding matters.
- Liaise with the Campus Manager on safeguarding issues and manage Criminal Conviction Risk Assessments, reporting to the Executive as needed.
- Ensure compliance with all legislative requirements and attend relevant meetings, such as Child Protection and Personal Education Plans.
- Ensure full compliance with the Prevent Agenda requirements.
- Participate in additional duties as required, including invigilation, open evenings, and enrolment duties.
What We Offer:
· Investment in your professional development.
· Opportunities to advance your career within the college.
· Enrolment to the LGPS pension scheme.
· 35 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
Qualifications & Experience Required:
- Qualified to Level 3 in Safeguarding
- Mental Health 1st Aid trained
- Experience of managing and monitoring safeguarding in an education/training environment
- Experience of delivering safeguarding training to different audiences
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with external agencies and college departments
- Knowledge of current safeguarding legislation and best practices
- Education to level 2 standard including English and Maths
How to Apply:
If you are ready to make a significant impact on the lives of our students and staff, apply today to join our college as a Safeguarding Manager!
To apply, please click on the link below or copy and paste the URL
https://harlowcollege.octo-firstclass.co.uk/candidates/account/login/181421?aisId=12&rmId=3694&src=3
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If you would like to pop in or have an informal discussion to find out more, please contact Sallyann Abdelmoula on 01279 868101 or email sabdelmoula@harlow-college.ac.uk
Closing date for applications is Friday 6th September 2024 Midday
Interviews expected Friday 27th September 2024
This vacancy may close early dependant on the volume of applications received, we therefore encourage you to apply ASAP.
This college is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community.
About Harlow College
The locality
Harlow is strategically placed on the West Essex/Hertfordshire border at the centre of the London, Stansted, Cambridge corridor, one of the fastest growing and economically important areas in the UK. Significant local employers include GlaxoSmith Kline, Raytheon UK, Stansted Airport and Public Health England who are soon to relocate to Harlow. The area also has a thriving manufacturing industry that sits within the supply chain of many large multi-national companies. This means that Harlow College is at the forefront of providing the pipeline for the future workforce in scientific and technical disciplines, as well as, the service economy that supports any thriving region.
The surrounding area includes many attractive villages, which, like the town itself, also serve as dormitory suburbs of London.
About the College
Harlow College is a strong and successful further education college which aims to provide our students with “Not just courses, careers”, providing them with the skills to achieve 1st class destinations and employment.
We place learners at the heart of all we do, and were graded as good by Ofsted who commented that ‘Learners make good progress because their teachers plan lessons and good resources that make learning challenging and stimulating’. Our progress measure (value-added) places us as the top college in the country for A Level progress and in the top 1% for academic and vocational progress.
We offer the widest range of post-16 courses in the area and we have excellent links with employers - giving access to work placements that genuinely help improve career prospects. We also run an extensive range of Apprenticeships including higher apprenticeships which complement our degrees and foundation degrees offered through Anglia Ruskin University and our own Higher National Certificate and Diploma provision. In addition, we work extensively across the area working with adults by providing short vocational courses leading directly to employment.
The College is a multi-million pound campus and substantial investment has resulted in buildings are which are truly inspirational and have cutting edge facilities. These include salons, restaurants, broadcast facilities, a theatre, recording and multimedia studios, a category C biohazard science lab, a healthcare mobility suite and a creche. The most recent of these is our Harlow Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering Centre opening in January 2016 an £11 million investment.
Curriculum
The College has a strong reputation for the quality of its provision and for the richness and breadth of its curriculum. It also has a reputation for the care it gives to its students and for the attention it gives to their personal growth. The college is at the forefront of curriculum innovation, working closely with employers to ensure students leave with the qualifications and the knowledge and competence needed for future life and a career.
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