Safeguarding Officer: Multi Agency Support Team - Term Time

Woodlands; Folkestone, Peene; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

An educational institution in Folkestone seeks a Safeguarding Officer to join their Multi Agency Support Team. The role involves building strong relationships with families, teachers, and external agencies to ensure the safety and wellbeing of students. Key responsibilities include implementing safeguarding practices and supporting young people to achieve their potential. The position offers a supportive environment with opportunities for professional training and wellbeing support.

Benefits

Comprehensive induction programme

Established mentoring and coaching

On-site parking

Local Government Pension scheme

Wellbeing days

Extensive professional training

Qualifications opportunities

Wellbeing support via app

Annual flu vaccinations

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Background in safeguarding or similar field is essential.
• Ability to form strong relationships with varied stakeholders.
• Experience in supporting children and young people.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safeguarding practices are at the forefront of all actions.
• Build relationships with parents, carers, and teachers.
• Support young people to thrive in their education.

Skills

Strong relationship building

Reliability

Creativity

Resilience

Job description

Safeguarding Officer: Multi Agency Support Team

Hours:37hours per week term time plus five INSET days (39 working weeks per year) -Core hoursare 8am-5pm

Scale:KSE Actual Salary £24,169 - £25,787

We have the greatest privilege and opportunity to provide the support, safety and a nurturing environment for our pupils. This is the strongest springboard to accelerated learning and shows our commitment to enable our community to thrive.

This role is at the very heart of this vision and our beliefs. At The Beacon we are always looking to be on the front foot with our positive relationships and communication with our community. These are essential qualities for anyone looking to join our energetic and hardworking school and in particular the Multi Agency Support Team in which our safeguarding team are embedded. We have an exciting vacancy for anoutstandingpractitioner with a background in safeguarding to join our existing team.

The successful candidate willjoin our highly skilled team Multi AgencySupport Team and will be primarily based at our Folkestone site but will be required at points to work from our Walmer site. We are looking for a reliable, creative and resilientprofessional who can build strong boundaried relationships with parents, carers, teachers, support staff and external agencies and put the safeguarding of our young people at the forefront of all they do.

The role is at the heart of supporting the young people in our community to thrive; if our children are safe and attending school regularly, they have the best chance to succeed and fulfil their ambition for life after The Beacon.

We see this role as one of providing a holistic approach to supporting our young people and forming positive working relationships with families and young people. This is at the core of our safeguarding ethos.

The benefits of working at The Beacon include:

• a comprehensive induction programme for all staff
• an established mentoring and coaching system throughout the school
• on-site parking
• great Local Government Pension scheme
• wellbeing days
• extensive professional trainingat all levels
• opportunities to gain qualifications
• wellbeing support in person and extensive provision via an app based platform
• annual flu vaccinations
• Employee Assistance Programme inc. counselling service

The Beacon as a whole school prides itself on providing our pupils with much more than academic development and successes. We will collectively not let anything stand in the way of developing the best possible experiences and pathways for our pupils.

The Beacon is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Please note that this position is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure and two satisfactory references.

Please note, we reserve the right to close this role sooner than advertised if needed.