Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
Line Manager: Senior Professional Advisor
Salary: £26,000 – £35,000 per year
We are seeking to appoint a Safeguarding Advisor to support our Senior Professional Advisor. The successful candidate will provide support and guidance on safeguarding and related issues across the organisation, including the development of specialist audits and sector specific self-assessments. Whilst the primary focus would be on safeguarding children and young people, this role will also help us develop our approach to safeguarding adults at risk.
The successful candidate will be a committed safeguarding professional with a proven track record that reflects practical experience, an appetite to ask questions and an ability to respectfully challenge.
INEQE Safeguarding Group is the largest independent Safeguarding Company in the UK and Ireland. Specialising in safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the context of their lives, access to technology and use of social media.
Innovative and unique, INEQE is an ethical business formed in 2011 with a diverse staff team. With over 250 years combined experience, our culture is built upon a Safeguarding First approach in everything we do!
The Role
The successful candidate will be professionally supervised and supported by our Senior Professional Safeguarding Advisor and line managed on a day-to-day basis by the Director of Operations. The role will involve some travel (subject to government guidelines) and duties will include but not be limited to the following:
Essential Criteria Requirements:
Desirable Requirements
Benefits
Regular salary reviews are conducted and staff who meet our productivity targets are rewarded.
The successful candidate can expect to be supplied with top-of-the range equipment and will benefit from 28 days annual leave (full-time, pro-rata for part-time working), which increases with service.
As a company we strive to develop our staff and a training budget is available to ensure that staff can undertake relevant training.
The Directors have been keen to develop a family environment within the business and this ethos underpins our team spirit.
The following benefits are enjoyed by our team:
To apply, please send your current CV together with a covering letter explaining why you want to work at INEQE Safeguarding Group.
Alongside your CV and letter, all candidates MUST submit a copy of our Equal Opportunities monitoring Form, which can be found below.
Please submit your documents to [email protected]
Salary
£26,000.00-£35,000.00 per year
Additional Information
Equal Opportunities
Ineqe is an Equal Opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all who meet our selection criteria.
Safeguarding Commitment
INEQE Safeguarding Group are committed to ensuring that all children and young people are protected from harm and exploitation and are able to thrive and grow. This is especially so for children and young people who come into contact with our business.
Our culture is built upon a Safeguarding First approach in everything we do. As such, the company has a zero-tolerance approach to child abuse.
Our commitment extends to all staff, whether full or part-time and all associates, with whom the company engage from time to time.
Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and therefore all staff are required to adhere to this commitment and to strictly comply with our safeguarding and other relevant policies.
Any breach of this commitment will be treated as gross misconduct under our Code of Conduct.
Employees will be expected to:
- Read and be familiar with our policies and procedures
- Be able to identify the signs and symptoms of abuse
- Know who you should make reports to if you have concerns about a child or young person.
To enable you fulfil these commitments, the Company will provide relevant training. This will include but is not limited to Level 1 Safeguarding.
AccessNI
Whilst a criminal record will not necessarily be a bar to being appointed, as the successful candidate will be part of our ‘Safer Schools’ programme, you will be required to undergo and pass enhanced vetting through AccessNI.
The AccessNI Code of Practice can be found at:
https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/publications/accessni-code-practice