Safeguarding Coordinator

NHS; Leyland; Hybrid; GBP 24,000; Part time

Job summary

A community health provider in Leyland is looking for a part-time Safeguarding Coordinator to support vulnerable children and families. The role involves administrative support, managing sensitive information, and collaborating with health professionals. The ideal candidate will possess strong organisational and interpersonal skills, be calm under pressure, and have a full UK driving licence. The position offers a salary of £23,875 pro rata, with some benefits including remote work flexibility.

Benefits

Access to discounts on everyday purchases

Group pension

Online mental and physical wellbeing support

eLearning and career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating multiple tasks with sensitive information.
• Understanding of safeguarding, equality and diversity, and information governance.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support across Safeguarding and Children in Care services.
• Organise meetings and maintain accurate records.
• Support the tracking of health assessments for children in care.

Skills

Strong organisational skills

Confident communication

Excellent interpersonal skills

Strong IT skills (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)

Experience with confidential information

Calm under pressure

Education

Full UK driving licence

Job description

Do you have strong organisational skills, confidence working with sensitive information, and a passion for supporting vulnerable children and families

HCRG Care Group are seeking a compassionate and highly organised Safeguarding Coordinator to support both the Safeguarding and Children in Care teams, providing high quality administrative and coordination support to ensure services meet contractual standards, statutory responsibilities, and regulatory requirements.

You will deliver a comprehensive, efficient, and confidential administrative service to both teams, helping them operate effectively and professionally. This includes managing sensitive information in line with organisational data protection and information governance policies.

The role requires confident communication and collaboration with a wide range of internal health professionals and external multi‑agency partners such as local authorities, GP services, police, ICBs/CCGs, safeguarding boards, and NHS England. The successful candidate will take pride in their work, remain focused, and demonstrate resilience when faced with routine challenges.

This is a part‑time opportunity, working core hours of 9 am – 5 pm across 3 days per week, with some flexibility to work from home.

Main duties of the job

What you’ll do

• Provide day‑to‑day administrative support across Safeguarding and Children in Care services.
• Act as a first point of contact for enquiries, often involving sensitive or complex information.
• Organise meetings, training, and events, including minute‑taking and preparing papers.
• Maintain accurate manual and electronic records, ensuring confidentiality at all times.
• Support the tracking of Children in Care health assessments and safeguarding supervision activity.
• Work closely with health professionals, local authorities, and wider multi‑agency partners.
• Collate data and produce reports to support KPIs and service requirements.

About you

• Confident communicator with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Highly organised, able to prioritise, multitask, and work independently.
• Strong IT skills, including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
• Experience working with confidential information and coordinating multiple tasks.
• Calm under pressure, resilient, and able to work with emotionally sensitive issues.
• Understanding of safeguarding, equality and diversity, and information governance.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.

You’ll be part of a supportive team making a real difference to the safety and wellbeing of children and families. This is a role where your organisational strengths directly support safeguarding outcomes across the community.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a Safeguarding Coordinator, you’ll be part of our valued team based at Chorley House in Leyland. You will feel valued as a Safeguarding Coordinator within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary of £23,875 pro rata with access to our group pension
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face‑to‑face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post‑trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ring‑fenced innovation funding each year

Person Specification

General Requirements

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

HCRG Care Group

Address

HCRG Care Group

Leyland

Lancashire

PR26 6TY

Employer's website

https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)