Safeguarding Coordinator (Childrens)

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd; Llandrindod Wells; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A local safeguarding organization seeks a Safeguarding Coordinator to effectively support and coordinate safeguarding meetings. Responsibilities include taking minutes at various critical meetings, handling inquiries from partner agencies, and ensuring compliance with data protection laws. Ideal candidates should demonstrate strong organizational skills, resilience, and a passion for supporting vulnerable children and families in Powys. The role will involve some travel across multiple locations.

Qualifications

• Be organised and adhere to confidentiality in all tasks.
• Demonstrate empathy and resilience to support vulnerable individuals.
• Possess excellent ICT skills for data management.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and minute complex safeguarding meetings.
• Serve as point of contact for partner agencies.
• Ensure compliance with data protection and GDPR requirements.
• Compile performance indicator statistics.
• Prepare recommendation letters post-meetings.

Skills

Organisational skills

Confidentiality

ICT skills

Resilience

Empathy

Job description

About the role: The Safeguarding Coordinator role will provide efficient and effective coordination and support of Safeguarding meetings for Powys Children’s Safeguarding Team.

This includes management and recording on various recording systems in line with Legislative requirements.

The role will also involve working with a wide variety of external partners.

About you: Be organised, adhere to confidentiality, record and relay information accurately.

Have a proactive and challenging approach to work.

Demonstrate empathy and resilience of exposure to traumatic information.

Have excellent ICT skills.

Embrace Powys' Flexible Working Policy.

Have a passion for supporting children, young people and their families in Powys.

What you will do: Coordinate and accurately minute complex meetings, including Child Protection Conferences, Professional Strategy Meetings, and Child Exploitation Strategy Meetings.

Serve as the primary point of contact for partner agencies and safeguarding administration, handling a wide range of telephone and written enquiries, register checks, and information system requests.

Undertake associated administrative tasks, including processing incoming and outgoing mail.

Prepare recommendation letters following Child Protection Case Conferences, extracting and summarising key discussion points that form the basis of the Child Protection Plan.

Ensure compliance with performance monitoring, compiling and reporting timely and accurate performance indicator statistics.

Maintain strict confidentiality and data security, ensuring all records comply with GDPR requirements.

Travel to multiple Powys locations as required.

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