Safeguarding Jobs

We are keen to hear from experienced leaders looking to progress their career in Residential Care Leadership working with autistic boys and their families.

Swalcliffe Park School is a non-maintained specialist day and residential school for high functioning autistic boys aged 10-19. The school is a not for profit Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO).

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, creative and forward-thinking school leader to be a member of the School’s Senior Leadership Team. As well as overseeing all aspects of the Residential Care and Health Care provision, you will be the Designated Lead for the Safeguarding Team and support the implementation school’s Independence curriculum across the school.

This is a senior role which includes some onsite overnight manager responsibilities as part of the wider leadership team as well as a range of whole school responsibilities. You will play a leading role in whole school curriculum, operational and strategic and development including organisational self-evaluation in line with our ‘Quality of Life’ framework and approach.

Goals:

• To maintain and develop the school’s ‘Outstanding’ Residential Care offer and practice in line with our Quality of Life framework and approach;
• To Lead the School’s Safeguarding Team and practice
• To support the implementation and development of the school’s Independence curriculum in line with our Quality of Life approach; and
• To support and promote the school’s multi-disciplinary ethos, culture and reflective practice.

Prospective candidates are warmly invited to visit the school ahead of applying; If you wish to make an appointment to look around the School to see if Swalcliffe Park School is your next step in Residential Care leadership, or if you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact the Principal, Rob Piner, to arrange a convenient time.

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on Monday 24th February 2025.

Rosebuds Preschool has a great opportunity for a Preschool and Family Operations Lead, to drive the quality and development of our award-winning services for children, young people, and families at the Max Roach Centre. This role emphasises a multi-disciplinary and integrated approach to early years education, play, and child initiatives.  

What does your role look like: 

Quality Oversight: Ensure high-quality early years learning and care at Rosebuds Preschool. Develop quality assurance frameworks to evaluate service effectiveness in addition to the formulation of a meaningful programme of family and child centred activities within our Play and Family Support initiatives at the centre. 

Program Development: Design and manage family and child-centered activities in our play, and Family Support initiatives. Collaborate with practitioners to enhance educational offerings and align with best practices. 

Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration: Promote integrated working across early years sectors. Engage in collaborative planning with educators, social services, health providers, and community organizations. 

Leadership and Management: Advanced Early Years management knowledge, understanding and experience is fundamental to this role. Provide leadership and mentorship to staff, fostering professional development and continuous improvement.

Community Engagement: Organise year-round activities reflecting the Max Roach community's needs. Build relationships with partners to create a robust ecosystem for families. 

Benefits of working with us: 

- Highly Competitive Salary 

- Concessional Preschool Place

- Employee Assistance Programme for Staff Mental Health Wellbeing and Support 

- Regular Socials and Team Building Opportunities. 

- Free Enhanced DBS Checks

- Well-Established Career Path and Training Opportunities 

- Workplace Pension Scheme

- Induction and Supervision Programme

- Personal and Professional Development Plan 

- Fresh Fruit, Tea & Coffee available for all staff 

Requirements: 

A passion for working with children, young people and their families. With a recognised qualification in Early Years / Childcare at Level 3 with a proven track record of 5 year's experience in a management / leadership role in an early years setting.

Experience of: 

• devising and applying a high quality curriculum for young children within the Early Years Foundation Stage. 

• managing a team of early years professionals to improve the quality of EY practice. 

• working with external groups / partners / organisations in a EY provision in a way that supports the child and its’ family in a holistic way. 

• Oversight and designed lead for Safeguarding children, Health and Safety. 

• Monitoring activities / services using a database system. 

• Managing and working within a designated budget. 

Role Title: Preschool and Family Programmes Lead 

Hours: 35 hours per week, 8 hours per day Monday to Friday (Hours will include some afterschool wraparound, occasional evenings and weekends). 

We value work life balance and are willing to consider term time only and or 4 day week.  

Salary: £38,000 - £40,000 (FTE) 

Location: Max Roach Centre, in person

Holiday: 28 days inclusive of bank holidays and Christmas 2 weeks allocation.

Please send your CV by Friday 28th February 2025

Loughborough Community Centre is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to safeguarding and safer recruitment.

This role is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

At Ambitious about Autism, we're currently looking for an Office Manager to join our team at TreeHouse School.

You'll provide high quality administrative and reception support to TreeHouse School, overseeing the running of the front office and acting as a central information point for staff, parents and visitors.

Some key duties will include:

• Managing the stationery budget and ordering supplies for the school
• Line management of the Receptionist
• Arranging meeting room bookings
• Managing the team's annual leave

We are looking for someone who has:

• Strong administrative and reception experience
• Excellent IT skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills at all levels via telephone and written communication
• Experience of using your own initiative to plan and manage your own workload

In return, we offer great benefits including a generous holiday allowance and commitment to continued professional development (CPD), flexible, hybrid working and more!

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious individual who would like to work for a forward-thinking, open and honest organisation and make a real impact to the young people we work with. Please find our full recruitment pack on the link below.

If you have any questions about the role or would like to have a confidential chat, please contact James Axford, Recruitment Officer.

Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.

Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. As part of our Safer Recruitment checks, an online search maybe carried out in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.

The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification.
Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filter Guidance.

The Institute of Physics (IOP) is one of the world’s largest physical societies. It is both a membership body and a registered charity, representing Physicists and the learned society for Physics in the UK and Ireland, as well as providing a trusted voice for the global physics community.

The IOP promotes the health and wellbeing of the discipline and its many practical applications, reinforcing the links between education, research, industry, and economic and social value. It is investing in its new strategy to tackle the challenges facing skills, science and society. The new strategy also seeks to unlock the potential that the physics community has in tackling our greatest societal and economic challenges, and to engage the public more widely in this.

This post is a key appointment for the IOP, which consists of 140 staff, with offices in London, Dublin and Cardiff and staff spread across the UK and Ireland. With a £17 million turnover the IOP is a core part of the wider IOP Group, which along with IOP publishing has a total of 680 staff and income of £80 million. The IOP is overseen by an elected Council of 18 trustees. The Council delegates executive leadership to the CEO – who this post reports to and the Executive Team, which this post is a key member of, all work closely together in the delivery of the strategy. The IOP’s governance structures have recently been reviewed to ensure that they are fit for purpose for a modern, progressive organisation that encourages strong member engagement.

Following the launch of a new strategy and extensive restructure we are looking for an inspirational Director of People and Operations to lead this work for the IOP.

For the postholder to be successful, they must consult and work closely with IOP staff, the elected officers and Council, engage volunteers and members, and help the organisation to form strong links with key stakeholder and key delivery partners, particularly in key areas of people, workplace, IT and digital. This involves setting clear direction and priorities for the IOP team, delivering measurable impact, developing the assets and infrastructure IOP staff and members rely on.

Application

Alongside your CV, please ensure you include a 1 page cover letter stating how you meet the person specification.

To apply for this role please click the link below, best of luck with your applications!

The Institute of Physics is an open and inclusive organisation that welcomes and celebrates diversity.

*We request no contact from agencies or media sales.

This new and important role will be central in supporting the work of HSBNW.  Our small team supports many families across our area and we have recognised that additional safeguarding support is needed.  Working for the scheme manager and with our board Designated Safeguarding Lead you will ensure that our safeguarding is robust.  Supporting the team to recognise and follow up on any concerns and ensuring that recording and reporting is robust.  You will have extensive experience of working with children and adults at risk, be a skilled communicator and be able to manage and support families and children with multiple complex need. Initially for a 6 month pilot, subject to funding this role is expected to become permanent.

Job Purpose

To be the main contact for safeguarding concerns

To work with the scheme manager and the Board DSL to ensure that all staff are working in line with safeguarding policies and procedures

To promote a culture of vigilance and professional curiosity amongst all staff and volunteers

To ensure that all reporting and recording of safeguarding concerns is accurate and timely

To escalate and follow up on concerns in line with policy

To report and follow up with Social Care as necessary

To work with partner agencies in line with ‘Working Together’

To be available for staff and volunteers to discuss safeguarding concerns

To work with the DSL to lead safeguarding supervision

To ensure that all staff and volunteers attend regular training update sessions

To support the Scheme Manager and wider team in all aspects of the HSBNW service

Able to provide occasional out of hours ‘on-call’ support

Person Specification

Qualifications

· Minimum Level 4 DSO/DSL trained

· Good standard of education

Experience

· Minimum 12 months experience of working as a DSO/DSL

· Working with children and adults at risk

· Relationship building with partner agencies

· Implementing and encouraging good safeguarding practice

· Facilitating safeguarding supervision

· Delivering safeguarding training

· Able to support families balancing understanding and challenge

Skills and Knowledge

· Robust understanding of legislation, guidance and good practice in safeguarding

· Ensuring that’s safeguarding is imbedded in practice

· Awareness of local and national agencies that provide safeguarding support

· Excellent IT and database skills

· Effective communication and interpersonal skills

· Able to build effective working relationships with all stakeholders

Personal Qualities

· Commitment to ensuring the safety of children and adults at risk

· Able to work effectively under pressure

· Commitment to equality of access

The Head of Central Services is a brand-new senior role that has been created to give a higher profile to, and enhance the importance of governance, H&S, Safeguarding and compliance across The Brick.

Key elements of the role include:

·     Drive a culture of compliance at The Brick by raising the profile of safeguarding, property standards and health and safety, by sharing the positive impact of compliance work, and by clearly communicating the risks of non-compliance.

· Support the Board, the Chief Executive and Operations Director in fulfilling their responsibilities for the proper governance of the charity, and compliance with relevant regulatory authorities and standards, including Property Compliance, H&S, GDPR and Safeguarding

·       Be the primary interface with key regulators and contractors including the Regulator of Social Housing and closely manage the relationship with each to ensure that The Brick remains in line with their existing requirements and is able to plan effectively for upcoming changes.

· Deliver a comprehensive health, safety and quality programme which meets The Brick’s legal, regulatory, and contractual obligations, particularly in the key risk areas, for example, safeguarding, health and safety, and accident and incident management.

· Ensure that The Brick has appropriate measures in place to safeguard the people we work with (who often have complex needs and vulnerabilities) and responds to feedback and complaints from clients, puts things right where we have got them wrong, and we learn the lessons for the future.

· Lead the organisation’s strategic and operational approach to risk management and mitigation and lead the organisation’s business continuity planning.

Ripon Cathedral is currently seeking a part-time Cathedral Safeguarding Officer who will help us to continue growing a strong safeguarding culture.

This role will help to champion safeguarding best practice throughout the cathedral community, will support development and implementation of policy and best practice, and will advise on and process safeguarding cases.

We’re looking for someone with a relevant professional qualification (or equivalent experience in safeguarding), experience of managing safeguarding casework, an empathy for the mission and values of Ripon Cathedral and excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills.

This is a permanent flexible part-time role (14 hours a week).  The salary will be £37,000 pro rata (£14,800).

Salary (UK): £50,366 plus benefits (Our pay philosophy ensures consistency across locations and salaries. The starting salary for this opportunity plus benefits depends on location of the candidate). 

The role: 

Mary’s Meals International is recruiting for an experienced Head of Safeguarding to join our People & Governance team. In this key role, you will provide strategic leadership and oversight of safeguarding activity across the Mary’s Meals network.

Reporting to the Chief Officer – People & Governance, and working closely with colleagues across the world, you will develop and implement project management plans to ensure our Global Safeguarding Policy is embedded consistently and sustainably across our movement.

As global subject matter expert, you will lead on the development of a global safeguarding strategy and develop our approach to safeguarding in different contexts. You will support, mentor and capacity build a global safeguarding team.  

You will:

· Oversee the development and continual improvement of the global safeguarding policy framework.

· Develop a comprehensive implementation plan to fully embed the safeguarding standards across the global network with a strong emphasis on a high-quality training programme.

· Through direct and matrix management arrangements, lead, coach and capacity build the global safeguarding team and ensure that all activities are consistent and complementary.

· Work with leadership teams globally to develop and embed an organisational culture which is supportive of good safeguarding practice. 

· Continue to embed our survivor centred approach to ensure that care and support is provided to those who have experienced harm.

Required skills and experience:

· Experience of working in a senior safeguarding or child protection position internationally with in-depth and up-to-date knowledge of sector safeguarding best practice.

· Experience of successfully developing and managing change projects and of implementing safeguarding standards globally.

· Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy, demonstrating sound judgement based on evidence, knowledge and understanding.

· Experience of managing and developing a diverse, remote team.

· Experience of conducting and supporting investigations in a survivor centred way.

· Proven leader and influencer, you will bring relevant experience of implementing policies, projects and change.

· Cultural sensitivity, great communication skills and experience of developing productive relationships in a global organisation, up to Board level.

About us:

This is a global role, we are happy for you to work remotely and flexibly, and we are open to part time working patterns. There will be a requirement for travel to countries where Mary’s Meals operates including Kenya, Liberia, Malawi and Zambia.

Mary’s Meals is a global movement supported by people from all walks of life and we are focused on one goal – that every child receives a nutritious daily meal in a place of education. We continue to change the lives of over 2.4 million children who today will receive Mary’s Meals.

We believe in the innate goodness of people, respect the dignity of every human being and family life and believe in good stewardship of the resources entrusted to us. In line with our values, Mary’s Meals is fully committed to a culture of safeguarding.  Mary’s Meals is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work and we expect all the Mary's Meals family to share this commitment and work in the best interest of the communities we serve. Our safe recruitment practices ensure that only those that are committed to our high standards join our movement. This role undertakes regulated work with children, and you will be required to register with the Protected Vulnerable Group Scheme or local equivalent before undertaking your role.

Salary advertised is for UK based candidates, our salary philosophy ensures consistency across locations where Mary’s Meals operates.

This is a fantastic role where your daily work has real impact. Please click Apply to send your CV and a short covering note, highlighting your suitability and motivations in considering this role.

Closing date for applications is Sunday 16th February 2025.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible

Safeguarding Officer

National charity

£35,500 per annum including car allowance

Permanent

Oxford - on site with flexible working

Full time 35 hours per week with flexible working

Benefits: Excellent pension scheme, contribution of up to 10%, life assurance from day one and access to the Employee Assistance Programme

Do you have experience of safeguarding with an understanding of practices and legislation? Are you keen to work in a role where you can make a tangible difference to people's lives, promoting a safe environment for everyone?

Charity People are working with a well-established charity who are supporting farming communities, offering practical aid, financial assistance, and mental health support throughout England and Wales, to recruit a talented Safeguarding Officer.

The charity offers tangible, financial, and mental health support. Their funding initiatives enable farmers to attain financial stability. Their mental health support contributes to fostering emotional resilience, enabling individuals to effectively navigate challenges within the farming community. These resources are augmented by the round-the-clock hotline and a network of Support Managers across regions, delivering expert counsel and guidance. This is an exciting time to join a growing team, and this role will contribute to transforming safeguarding across the organisation.

The Role

The Safeguarding Officer will champion safeguarding practices and procedures, ensure compliance with policies and procedures, drive engagement and awareness with staff, volunteers and external teams around safeguarding, and embed a strong culture of safeguarding across all teams.

Key responsibilities

• Support the Designated Safeguarding Lead in developing and enhancing safeguarding practices, including creating and delivering training plans and materials.
• Oversee safeguarding systems such as CPOMS, ensuring effective management, follow-ups, reporting, and providing guidance to enhance understanding.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to address safeguarding themes, share trends, and contribute to best practices while maintaining compliance.
• Provide practical safeguarding support to regional teams, ensuring escalations are handled effectively and building confidence in safeguarding practices.

What we are looking for

To be successful in this role, you will need to be able to demonstrate the following in your supporting statement:

• Experience of working as a Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
• Relevant up to date training in the specialist area of Safeguarding
• Knowledge of safeguarding practices and legislation
• Knowledge and experience of statutory agency practices and multi-agency working
• Ability to distinguish between observation, facts and information gained from others and confidently assess risk in a time sensitive manner
• Excellent communication, report-writing and recording skills
• Experience of providing safeguarding support to staff and volunteers working with adults and children who may be at risk of harm, their families and carers
• Experience of using data recording systems
• Confident working on own initiative and in communication and presenting to a wide range of staff and volunteers
• Highly organised and can manage multiple tasks and priorities
• Flexible, resilient and solution focussed working with sensitivity, integrity and without prejudice

If this role has resonated with you and you would like to be part of something truly rewarding, where your skills and dedication will make a tangible difference in the lives of others, then we would love to hear from you.

How to apply

The application process is CV and supporting statement. Please reach out to Jen D'Souza at Charity People to apply and for more information about the role: .

Due to the nature of the role, we are accepting applications and interviews are taking place on a rolling basis. Please do reach out if this impacts you in any way.

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We match charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

Chair of Diocesan and Cathedral Safeguarding Advisory Group
Canterbury, Kent
£325 per day plus excellent benefits
Approx 8 days per year

The Chair of the Diocesan and Cathedral Safeguarding Advisory Panel (DCSAP) is an extremely important and highly influential role at the Diocese, as you will independently guide, advise and challenge the Diocese and Canterbury Cathedral to ensure that their safeguarding policies, procedures and practices adhere to national and statutory safeguarding requirements.

Acting with impartiality and independence, you will provide effective leadership to the panel by encouraging independent thought and supporting and challenging where necessary, to ensure effective safeguarding responsibilities for children and vulnerable adults are maintained within the Cathedral and throughout the Diocese.

Regularly reviewing the progress of the DCSAP’s annual work programme, you will also contribute to the diocesan and cathedral safeguarding strategy and its annual progress review.

Taking responsibility for scrutinising the Church's responses to safeguarding concerns, you will advise on the diocesan/cathedral response to case lessons learned reviews, proposing adjustments to policies and practices where necessary.

Perhaps with a background in social services, a local authority, the police or in safeguarding children, you should have a strong understanding of the statutory requirements relating to safeguarding, including the Children Act, Care Act, Working Together to Safeguard Children, and relevant criminal justice frameworks.

A natural leader with experience of chairing governance or multi-agency panels, you should have the ability to lead structured discussions and reach consensus, being able to act impartially and independently and offer objective advice and challenge. To ensure impartiality, you must not hold any other role within the diocese.

With outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, you should be capable of presenting safeguarding issues clearly to senior leaders and stakeholders, whilst having the ability to influence safeguarding strategy and policy, implementing improvements based on case reviews and best practices. 

Previous experience in a faith-based or voluntary setting with safeguarding responsibilities or experience working with statutory safeguarding partners (perhaps local authorities or the police) would be desirable.

Canterbury Diocese is the oldest diocese in England, stretching from Maidstone to Thanet, the Isle of Sheppey to the Romney Marsh. We have 350 miles of coastline with historic ports and seaside resorts, alongside rural communities, market towns and commuter-belt urban developments. Affluent areas often sit alongside pockets of major deprivation, offering an exciting and challenging mission context. 

At the heart of all we do is a vision of transformation for ourselves and our communities: no one can encounter God and remain unchanged. In the Diocese of Canterbury, we want to increasingly become a Christian community transformed through encounter with Christ, growing and overflowing to transform and bless the families, homes and communities we serve: Changed Lives, Changing Lives.

Closing date: 24 February 2025.
Interviews: 5 March 2025.

The Operations & Learning Associate will play a key role in ensuring the smooth day-to-day operations, providing logistical, technical and administrative support across the full range of FSC activities. The role will also contribute to a culture of continual learning and improvement through coordinating the implementation of FSC’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework, administering regular feedback and learning surveys.

A successful candidate must be able to self-manage projects and tasks to completion. Flexibility, positivity, proactively, independence, drive and a willingness to pitch in as true team-player are essential to success. This role reports to the FSC Executive Director.

Purpose of the Job 

Hammersmith and Fulham, Ealing and Hounslow Mind have developed and delivered music-based interventions for children and young people in a number of schools and community settings throughout our 3 boroughs.  Our music programme is designed to offer a different route into mental health support. We are looking to deliver and enhance this delivery and expand our music-based offer.

Job Summary

The role includes:

• Using your skills to develop music-based interventions for children and young people that improve their mental health
• Working with other practitioners to deliver ‘Mind on Music’ and other schools and community-based programmes that you may design whilst working at HFEH Mind
• Develop music-based sessions to deliver during school holidays (with colleagues)
• Create partnerships with local artists and industry professionals to provide exciting opportunities for young people.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver a high-quality music-based intervention to young people identified by schools signed up to the Mind on Music Programme
• Use trauma informed approaches (e.g., ARC, Tree of Life) to support children, young people and their parents and carers
• Deliver music-based interventions in community settings.
• Meet the KPIs and outcomes of our music-related funding
• Work with the Fundraising department to support ideas for new funding
• Develop the music-based provision offered by HFEH Mind
• Work alongside our young advisors to ensure new music-based ideas are co-produced.
• Understand and implement safeguarding procedures, and be familiar with safeguarding law, and how it applies to our work.

You will have/be:

• Musically talented and creative – ability to use a range of musical instruments and vocals to engage young people
• Experience of working with children and young people and an understanding of mental health
• A child-centred approach to work.
• A creative outlook on work, and ability to develop new ideas.
• Working knowledge of child and adult safeguarding.
• Organisational skills and excellent time management.
• Ability to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing, to a wide range of audiences.

Benefits of working with us

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays per year, increasing by 1 day per full year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days) [pro rata].
• Employee Rewards and Benefits Platform/Wellness Hub (Perkbox)
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Flexible working
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) including free counselling sessions
• Paid time off for medical appointments
• Training and personal development opportunities
• Access to shared resources and training opportunities via Mind Federated Network

How to apply

Please provide your CV, and a cover letter demonstrating how you meet the requirements of the Person Specification (see JD attached) and why you want this role.

We are an equal opportunities employer; and are proud to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

HFEH Mind are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults.

Post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Are you looking for an engaging, fulfilling, and varied role? Young Enterprise is looking for a new an Educational Partnerships Manager in Devon and Somerset.

Young Enterprise is a national charity working directly with young people, teachers, volunteers, helping young people prepare for their future. This role supports the continued development of YE’s impact by providing young people with opportunities to engage in YE’s enterprise and financial education programmes building vital skills, developing an enterprising mindset, supporting them to build their future and enabling them to make a positive contribution to their community and society.

As Educational Partnerships Manager you will be a key contributor to the regional educational partnerships team, supporting the team to achieve shared KPI’s for the region and the wider organisation.  The role of Educational Partnerships Manager involves working directly with young people and teachers in schools that delivering / supporting delivery of our Young Enterprise programmes.

The Educational Partnerships Manager role will suit someone that is able to work with young people, build rapport and engage young people from a range of backgrounds. You will need to be confident in working within education settings, liaising with school staff, volunteers, and corporate volunteers. This can be a varied role, but a very exciting role as well as very rewarding. Your experience of relationships development and management will help with developing new schools as well as supporting existing school relationships. There is not an exhaustive list but is to provide you with a flavour of the role.

We are looking for:

· A motivated self-starter

· Ability to develop new relationships with range of stakeholders and support existing ones

· Confident and happy in presenting and delivering to large audiences

· Good organisational, prioritising, and problem-solving skills, with the resilience to work effectively under pressure

· Excellent manner, rapport and professionalism with young people

· An understanding or experience of managing relationships with volunteers

· A great promoter and inspirer in helping young people achieve their potential

· Computer literacy with understanding of word, excel, PowerPoint and Microsoft Teams

You'll be working alongside an experienced and passionate small regional team, with a 'can-do' ethos of supporting each other and sharing knowledge across programmes and geographies.

Why work for us?

· People-focussed with a friendly and supportive work-place culture

· An active commitment to equality and diversity

· Access to mentoring scheme with a corporate partner

· Generous holiday allowance of 7.2 weeks (pro rata)

· Access to NHS top-up scheme, for money back on expenses such as dental and optical

· Access to an Employee Assistance Programme

· Cycle-to-work scheme

· Group Life Assurance

Keeping Young People Safe

Safeguarding is the action that is taken to promote the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and protect them from harm.

At Young Enterprise, we take our commitment to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults seriously. We design our roles, programmes and services with safeguarding in mind; conduct thorough checks on new employees in line with UK safeguarding legislation; and regularly enhance the safeguarding knowledge and skills of all our people, including when begin their role.

All successful applicants in eligible roles that involve contact with young people will need to undertake an enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) Check prior to starting in the role, and at subsequent 3-year intervals. In addition, no Young Enterprise employee will at any point be unaccompanied while in the presence of children under the age of 18.

In line with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, in the vast majority of cases DBS checks which contain information on previous convictions will not disqualify an individual from working with us. If you have any questions please contact our HR Team by e-mail; you will find the address in the attached JD document.

Full details can be found in the Job Description.

This is a home-based role, however, will require significant travel in Devon and Somerset.

DBS Required: YES

Please send your CV – with a covering letter (no more than 2 sides of A4) explaining why you think you would be right for this opportunity by no later than midnight on 21 February 2025. Please note applications without a cover letter will not be considered. 

We will be assessing applications on a rolling basis and may shortlist and invite candidates to interview before the closing date. Interviews will take place via Teams.

Although we endeavour to respond to all applications, if you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date you should consider your application unsuccessful. 

Purpose of the Job 

Hammersmith and Fulham, Ealing and Hounslow Mind deliver services in West London College through our Wellbeing Team. Working with all ages attending college in either Hammersmith and Fulham or Ealing, the wellbeing advisor will be an integral part of the Children and Young People’s Service within a key Mental Health Charity working in 3 boroughs in West London.

This role would suit an experienced Mental Health Youth Worker, CAMHS support worker, Youth Counsellor, Child Wellbeing Practitioner, Learning Mentor, Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner, an Assistant Psychologist with some training in MH interventions like CBT,  or other roles that have given you experience and skills in  working with children and young people presenting with difficulties related to their mental health.

Key Responsibilities

• To provide practical mental health focused short-term case work to young people, through 1:1 face to face appointments
• To signpost students for further support as and when necessary
• To manage a busy case load
• To raise safeguarding alerts and work with partners to ensure that young people are effectively safeguarded
• To develop and deliver workshops, campaigns and training for young people, educational staff and youth workers about mental health (on occasion)
• To support other Youth Services service delivery, when required
• To support the development of new tools, materials and services
• To maintain and nurture a positive working relationship with partners
• To ensure service delivery targets are on track
• To monitor the wellbeing of young people and evaluate the effectiveness of the service
• To provide information for quarterly monitoring reports to funders
• To keep administrative processes, client databases and client records up to date

You will have:

• Minimum two years’ experience of working with people with mental health issues
• Experience in delivering 1:1 practical support sessions and managing a complex case load
• Working knowledge of child and adult safeguarding
• Experience of working with young people
• Ability to write high-quality reports and case-notes and develop clear resources for a wide range of audiences

Benefits of working with us

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays per year, increasing by 1 day per full year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days) [pro rata].
• Employee Rewards and Benefits Platform/Wellness Hub (Perkbox)
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Flexible working
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) including free counselling sessions
• Paid time off for medical appointments
• Training and personal development opportunities
• Access to shared resources and training opportunities via Mind Federated Network

How to apply

Please provide your CV, and a cover letter demonstrating how you meet the requirements of the Person Specification (see JD attached) and why you want this role.

We are an equal opportunities employer; and are proud to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

HFEH Mind are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults.

Post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.