Safeguarding Lead Coordinator in Cardiff

Your impact

Responsible for ensuring the company’s safeguarding and prevent policies and procedures are up to date with the most recent statutory guidance, and that everyone who has prevent and safeguarding duties understands, can access and is familiar with any updates.

Creating and maintaining company specific Prevent risk assessment, updating it regularly in light of statutory updates and/or local events.

Understand risks associated with online safety and support those responsible for ICT to keep young people safe whilst they are online.

Undertake own regular refresher training to ensure own knowledge is as up to date as possible and in line with new guidance, sharing information and updates with relevant staff on an ongoing basis.

Running training and awareness sessions to ensure that all staff are aware of referral processes and procedures, including induction training for all newly appointed staff and volunteers.

Working with HR to identify ongoing training needs of staff in relation to safeguarding, wellbeing and prevent matters.

Being available and acting as the first point of contact for all staff and as a source of support, advice, and expertise to staff on matters of safeguarding, welfare and prevent, including when deciding whether to make a referral by liaising with the relevant agencies.

Accountable for making and keeping detailed, accurate, secure written records of concerns and referrals and support others to do so.

Ensuring that adequate reporting and recording systems are in place for safeguarding, well-being and prevent procedures, and that there are appropriate transferal procedures for records if learners move.

Making and ensuring all staff fulfil their statutory duties of referring to external agencies, where required, ensuring that a response is received and recorded, including referrals to local authority children or adult social care services and to Channel programme, where there is a radicalisation concern.

Creating and maintaining files of safeguarding evidence, including to support Estyn and Ofsted inspections.

Maintain links and seek advice, as required with local safeguarding contacts, local authorities, police, prevent contacts and other external agencies.

What are we looking for?

• Essential

• Experience developing and maintaining effective relationships and liaison with outside agencies and multi‑agency working
• Experience creating and maintaining robust GDPR compliant digital safeguarding records
• Experience with safeguarding and prevent procedures and reporting
• Currently qualified as a Designated Safeguarding Lead or held a previously accredited safeguarding qualification
• Recent safeguarding and prevent update training
• Understanding of relevant legislation, policy, guidance and good safeguarding practice
• An understanding of the issues affecting young people and vulnerable adults
• Problem solving skills to ensure the best outcomes for the learners are being achieved
• Experience working with young people in difficulty and crisis
• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to keep up to date and interpret legislative, policy, and guidance documents in safeguarding and prevent
• Excellent IT skills, with the ability to write concise summary reports
• Competence in written and verbal communications, including communication of highly sensitive/complex information
• Experience with handling large amounts of sensitive data and upholding the principles of confidentiality
• GCSE in English and Maths at Grade C/level 4 or equivalent
• Willingness to undergo a DBS check (cost covered by the company)

• Experience of working within the Work Based Learning sector
• Additional qualifications supporting young people with additional needs
• Mental Health First Aider
• Understanding of the needs and difficulties young people face
• External support services

What’s in it for you?

At Itec, our employees have access to several great benefits, including 30 days of annual leave (rising with length of service), a health care scheme, 35 hours of working week, discounts for retail and gym membership, a profit‑sharing scheme, life insurance, employee of the month awards, length of service recognition, and much more.

Itec operates as an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and ensure equal opportunities inclusive of gender, ethnicity, disability, or other protected characteristics.

Apply early, as we may close the vacancy once we have enough suitable applicants. We encourage applicants to disclose any needs for reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process or in their role to help create an inclusive workplace.

Should you not hear from us 2 weeks after application, please assume that your application was not successful on this occasion.