Safeguarding Advisor - London, United Kingdom - British Red Cross

British Red Cross
British Red Cross
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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Safeguarding Advisor

Location:
UK Flexible, Homeworking or Hybrid working from a local office

Hours : 21 hours per week, core hours are 8am to 6pm flexible. This is a 7 day service staffed to 9pm so evening and weekend on-calls are required on a rota basis. (Hours discussed at interview)

Contract type:
Permanent/Fixed Term

Salary :
£35,000 per annum pro rata (£21,000 at 21hrs per week)


We are recruiting a Safeguarding Advisor to work as a key part of our Safeguarding Team to further enhance and support the wider organisation.

Could you help expand our safeguarding framework and culture to staff and volunteers across the UK and abroad? Are you confident in responding and addressing adult and child safeguarding concerns? Can you provide assurance that safeguarding concerns are being dealt with appropriately at all levels?
***- This position is a 14 hour permanent role, however there is also funding for an additional 7 hours per week for the first 12 months. This will mean the post with be 3 days for 12 months reducing to 2 days thereafter with a pro-rata salary.*_


Purpose of the role

The Safeguarding Advisor will support British Red Cross staff and volunteers across the UK; providing support and guidance on safeguarding concerns relating particularly to adults at risk of abuse with knowledge of children's safeguarding also required.

They work will alongside other Safeguarding Advisors and report into the Safeguarding Manager.


The Safeguarding Advice Team will provide standardised, high quality guidance and support to all of our people, and senior management, as required, including out of hours, to ensure that all safeguarding concerns are: responded to effectively; recorded accurately; and, actions arising from these concerns, including statutory notifications, are completed in a timely and appropriate manner.

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Key Responsibilities
Specialist Advice and Quality Assurance

  • Provides specialist safeguarding advice and support to staff and volunteers.
  • First line support to advise on complex adult at risk and child safeguarding matters to preserve life and prevent significant harm or abuse
  • Ability to work independently within processes and statutory guidelines whilst interpreting and adapting to suit a variety of situationsCapable of negotiating with variety of statutory bodies to ensure appropriate escalation of matters of abuse and harm
  • Ensures that safeguarding concerns are recorded, reviewed, escalated if required, and closed
  • Management of all safeguarding reports in the Datix incident reporting management system to an excellent and auditable quality that can be relied upon to evidence good practice, and exceptional organisational risk management (including in litigation if required)
  • Identify and manage complex safeguarding and serious incidents, including supporting with investigations and making external professional escalations to statutory bodies
  • Provides out of hours support on a rota system
  • Partake in weekly case management discussions and bimonthly clinical supervision to share good practice, and identify and share learning
  • Conduct semiregular service visits to ensure advice consistent with service needs and build safeguarding culture
  • Maintains uptodate knowledge of common safeguarding topics (e.g. suicidal ideation, child abuse) in order to operate as an individual contributor, delivering quality advice

Support

  • Provide guidance, support and mentoring to other safeguarding colleagues across all services
  • Offer initial psychosocial and peer support to distressed reporters, those who have dealt with distressing safeguarding incidents and those who are inexperienced in responding to safeguarding concerns
  • Respond to requests to deliver bespoke training to teams and explain organisational safeguarding processes to diverse directorates

Development / Continuous improvement:


  • Plays a role in ensuring that everybody in the organisation understands BRC's approach to safeguarding and knows what to do if they have a concern.
  • Represents British Red Cross in multiagency meetings and external statutory round tables (MARAC, MAPPA, Child Protection conferences etc.)
  • Collaborates with colleagues across professional services and internal services to ensure efficiency, effectiveness and good customer experience.
  • Supports the Safeguarding Development Advisers with reviews of training, organisational guidance and internal safeguarding resources.
  • Establish and maintain organisational relationships across BRC directorates and functions.
  • Liaise with police, senior healthcare staff and adult and children's social care representatives to ensure the best outcomes for individuals accessing BRC services.
  • Complete regular peer reviews and case audits to maintain consistency and ensure continuous improvement and learning.
  • Contribute to service level audits / deep dives to support and share learning and the embedding of a safeguardi
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