Safeguarding Officer

Outwood Academy Riverside; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Outwood Academy Riverside is seeking an experienced safeguarding professional to manage and coordinate the academy’s response to safeguarding concerns, ensuring appropriate action is taken and documentation is kept confidential via CPOMS. You will lead multi-agency collaboration and act as the lead professional for Team Around the Child meetings when required.

The role involves direct work with children and families, promoting potential and preventing harm, plus producing safeguarding statistics

Qualifications

• Significant safeguarding and child protection experience.
• Experience working with children and families in public/private/voluntary sectors.
• Ability to communicate with diverse audiences and manage deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate safeguarding responses to disclosures and ensure appropriate action.
• Lead multi-agency referrals and teamwork through Team Around the Child meetings when needed.
• Maintain confidential documentation and collate statistical information.
• Oversee in-year admissions related to safeguarding and school processes.

Skills

Effective communication

Prioritisation under pressure

Confidentiality

DBS check

Education

NVQ Level 3 in social care/child protection/safeguarding

Tools

CPOMS

Job description

Your primary function is to manage and coordinate the academy’s response to safeguarding concerns, ensuring appropriate action is taken following disclosures and maintaining accurate, confidential documentation via CPOMS. You will be key in coordinating multi-agency approaches to child protection issues, initiating referrals to outside agencies, and serving as the lead professional for Team Around the Child meetings when appropriate.

This vital role involves direct work with children and their families to promote their potential and prevent significant harm. You will also collate and produce statistical information related to safeguarding and manage in-year admissions.

Candidates must have significant experience in safeguarding and child protection, including recent experience working with children and families in the public, private, or voluntary sectors. Essential qualifications include an NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in social care/child protection/safeguarding, or the demonstrable willingness and ability to obtain it.

Required skills include the ability to communicate effectively with diverse audiences, manage competing deadlines under pressure, and maintain strict confidentiality. Experience working with other agencies, such as Social Care and the NHS, is also essential. A satisfactory DBS check is mandatory.