Safeguarding Administrator

An opportunity to use your excellent administration and interpersonal skills to provide support for this important area of work.

You will provide comprehensive, high-quality administrative support to the Diocesan Safeguarding Team, ensuring the effective coordination of safeguarding activity, compliance with Church of England safeguarding policies, and the accurate and secure management of sensitive information.

The role supports the Diocese in promoting a strong safeguarding culture that protects children, young people and vulnerable adults.

The role involves a range of administrative duties including:

• Managing calendars, meetings and correspondence.
• Preparing agendas and papers, and take minutes for safeguarding meetings
• Maintaining confidential records
• Supporting parishes with the administration of DBS checks
• Organising safeguarding training events and programmes.
• Assisting with audits, inspections and quality assurance processes, and preparing reports for governance bodies
• Maintaining safeguarding databases and tracking systems, ensuring high standards of data accuracy and producing a range of reports

We are looking for an individual with substantial experience in administration involving complex processes, proven organisational ability, and experience in handling highly confidential and sensitive information. The ideal candidate will have confidence and expertise in using databases, and record management systems, with a high level of IT proficiency, Microsoft Office. The candidate will also have strong written and verbal communication skills and have a flexibile approach to ensure tasks are completed to deadlines.

With the nature of the role, the ability to keep calm under pressure, and the resilience to cope with the impact of safeguarding matters is essential, along with empathy with the Church of England, its missions and aims.

The Diocesan Safeguarding Team (DST) supports parishes and senior clergy to safeguard children and vulnerable adults who may be at risk of abuse and neglect, and those in abusive relationships, through: immediate response to current and past allegations of abuse and harm, in partnership with statutory agencies; safe recruitment, training and support to voluntary and paid workers with children and vulnerable adults;

and creation of safe environments, through implementation of policies and procedures following the national legal and procedural framework for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, and Church of England policy and practice guidance.