Prospects Services Hiring for Safeguarding Officer Learning and Skills at Remote Full Time

Safeguarding Officer Learning and Skills

About Shaw Trust

At Shaw Trust we believe everyone has the right to live a decent and dignified life and an opportunity for rewarding work. We are a social purpose organisation challenging inequality and breaking down barriers to enable social mobility.

Having grown from humble beginnings in 1982 in the village of Shaw in Wiltshire, finding jobs for disabled people, today we are a complex and diverse charity committed to employment as the core pathway to a better life. For us being part of the solution is about creating the conditions for this to happen, advocating and delivering services that make a real difference. Working in partnership not competition, we are part of an eco-system of purpose-led organisations, striving for a fairer, more equal society centered on opportunity for all.

Role Purpose

The Safeguarding lead will ensure that Safeguarding, Prevent and Protect is effective in supporting learners and that learners receive high quality care and additional support to ensure they develop to their full capacity. The lead will develop staff and equip them with the necessary tools to enable them to support learners to break down barriers to learning and to keep themselves safe. The lead will keep staff up to date with regular bulletins on updated policy and safeguarding issues at a National and local level. They will keep up to date with all safeguarding legislation and associated legislation and implement safeguarding policy and procedures within learning and skills. The lead will work in partnership with relevant services and the safeguarding central team to ensure our safeguarding practices and systems are highly effective.

Download the Job Description for full details and Person Specification.

Shaw Trust is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment, where every employee, regardless of their background or lived experience, feels that they belong and can progress in their career. We are Disability Confident Leaders, support the guaranteed interview scheme and use of the government’s Access to Work scheme. Living our values we are keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within our organisation. We welcome applications from all sections of the community including from people with lived-experience and/or knowledge of disability or social exclusion. If you have accessibility requirements and would like information in a different format, email: [email protected] to make alternative arrangements.

Shaw Trust reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.