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Safeguarding Officer

Please Note: The application deadline for this job has now passed.

Role Responsibility

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Safeguarding Officer join the Strategic Safeguarding Team part of the Strategic Safeguarding and Quality Assurance Unit. The Strategic Safeguarding Team is responsible for ensuring there are effective systems in place to deliver positive outcomes for adults at risk.

The post will be based at Invicta House, but there are options to work remotely and flexibly, and will play a key part in raising awareness of safeguarding and ensuring collaborative working is developed and sustained with the intention to improve safeguarding practice. The post will involve working closely with partner agencies, report writing and disseminating recommendations from Domestic Homicide Reviews and Safeguarding Adults Reviews. In order to work effectively the successful candidate will have an awareness of national developments and emerging trends and research relating to safeguarding in order to inform and update operational staff, senior managers, and Members on Safeguarding.

The post holder will need to have effective communication skills, quality assurance knowledge, good legal knowledge relating to Adult Social care and previous experience in safeguarding.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring service. 

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Contact Details

For further information about this role please contact:

Catherine Collins, Strategic Safeguarding Service Manager 03000 418563 catherine.collins@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.

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