Safeguarding Manager - Off Record North East

Please note this is not a Bath & North East Somerset Council Vacancy.

Contract Type: Fixed term until March 2028, with possibility to extend subject to funding/performance

Organisation/School: Off the Record Bath & North East Somerset

Off the Record Bath & North East Somerset (OTR) is a mental health and wellbeing charity that gives local young people a safe space to be heard and be themselves. We provide a range of free services for young people, including counselling, listening support, youth participation, advocacy, support for care leavers and a LGBTQ+ focused youth groups.

You’ll be joining OTR at a time of growth and increasing responsibility within the local mental health system, with a strong focus on safeguarding assurance, quality improvement and partnership working.

Equity, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of what we value as an organisation. OTR is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability or any other status protected by law.

The Safeguarding Officer role has been created to strengthen and standardise safeguarding practice across OTR BaNES’ wellbeing, counselling and early-intervention services.

The post holder will act as a safeguarding lead, providing operational oversight, audit and quality assurance, staff guidance and external liaison, and ensuring compliance with statutory safeguarding frameworks, local partnership arrangements and ICB standards.

The role will also deliver targeted wellbeing and safeguarding check-ins for young people presenting with identified risk factors, supporting early intervention, safety planning and appropriate onward referral. While not a clinical post, it requires experience and confidence in working directly with children and young people in complex or vulnerable circumstances.

This is a fixed-term post funded through ICB funding, with a clear focus on embedding sustainable safeguarding systems and practices to support longer-term organisational development.

• Confident, calm and resilient when managing safeguarding concerns
• Highly organised, with a strong attention to detail and accountability
• Collaborative and relationship-focused, with the ability to work across teams and partner agencies.

Your enthusiasm, judgement and values are as important to us as your formal experience. If you feel you have transferable skills and relevant experience but do not meet every requirement listed below, we would still encourage you to apply.

• Act as a primary point of contact for safeguarding concerns across OTR BaNES services, including as a member of our Safeguarding on call rota, working out of hours evenings and weekends as required
• Receive, triage and manage safeguarding concerns, assessing risk and ensuring proportionate and timely responses
• Participate in safeguarding and clinical triage meetings as part of a multi-disciplinary decision-making group, ensuring safeguarding considerations inform clinical pathways and escalation decisions
• Maintain oversight of safeguarding case logs, ensuring accurate, confidential and up-to-date records
• Support staff and volunteers with safeguarding decision-making, thresholds and escalation
• Liaise with statutory agencies including Children’s Social Care, MASH, education providers and health partners as required
• Ensure safeguarding responses align with Working Together to Safeguard Children (2023), local safeguarding partnership procedures and organisational policy

• Conduct structured wellbeing and safeguarding check-ins with young people presenting with identified risk factors
• Deliver short, non-clinical safeguarding interventions including safety planning, review conversations, engagement support and signposting
• Support young people and families to understand referral pathways and access appropriate services
• Work collaboratively with counselling, wellbeing and early-intervention staff to support engagement prior to or alongside therapeutic input

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