Safeguarding Manager

Uniting-Church-in-Australia-Queensland-Syno; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Uniting Church in Australia, Queensland Synod seeks a senior safeguarding leader to head the safeguarding function across its agencies and communities in Queensland. You will lead investigations, coordinate responses to concerns, and advise Executive decision-makers on cases involving children and vulnerable persons.

You will oversee reporting to regulators under the Reportable Conduct Scheme, ensure procedural fairness, train staff and stakeholders, and liaise with congregations,

Job description

• Job Category Executive/Senior Level Officials and Managers
• Employee Type FP - Full-time Permanent

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The organisation:

The Uniting Church in Australia is a passionate and diverse Christian church, a community of people who are shaped by Jesus' teaching and example. The church in Queensland includes congregations, faith communities, presbyteries, schools and colleges, early learning centres, hospitals, aged care centres and many expressions of mission and community service. We are a multicultural church, committed to reconciliation with First Peoples and social justice for all, seeking to steward our resources wisely in the furtherance of God’s mission in the world.

The Queensland Synod is the state council of the Uniting Church who come together every 18 months for Synod in Session - a meeting to discern together and make decisions for the management of the Synod.

The Office of the Synod’s purpose is to act upon the discernment of the Synod, to enable, equip and encourage a renewing and growing Church across Queensland. We are mission-driven, service-orientated and relationally focussed.

Position purpose:

The purpose of this role is to lead and operate the Queensland Synod’s safeguarding function. The role will take the lead in investigating, responding to, and advising Executive decisions-makers on all matters related to safeguarding and ‘persons of concern’ – including incidents and concerns.

This will involve interviewing children and vulnerable people, preparing investigations plans that provide procedural fairness, collecting appropriate evidence, and providing recommendations to the standard of proof to Executive decision-makers, and providing advice as to how safeguarding incidents should be handled including how the alleged perpetrators should be managed.

The role requires a working knowledge of the Reportable Conduct Scheme and Child Safe Standards

The role will be required to undertake all reporting to regulators under the Reportable Conduct Scheme, on behalf of the Synod’s Head of Entity.

The role is also responsible for providing reporting on safeguarding compliance and assurance reporting to Synod governing bodies.

The role will involve training staff and stakeholders, liaising with key stakeholders including congregations, presbyteries and other Synod bodies.

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