Senior Safeguarding Officer

The Senior Safeguarding Officer plays a vital role in strengthening safeguarding practice across Place2

Be, a leading children’s mental health charity. Working closely with the Head and Deputy Head of Safeguarding, you will help ensure the organisation meets its safeguarding responsibilities for children and vulnerable adults by enhancing training, embedding robust policies, and improving systems and practice across staff, volunteers, and partner schools.

This hands‑on and collaborative role combines operational safeguarding oversight, training delivery, and service development, offering the opportunity to influence organisational practice, support multi‑agency working, and contribute to better outcomes for children and young people.

• Work closely with the Head and Deputy Head of Safeguarding to ensure organisational safeguarding responsibilities for children and vulnerable adults are met
• Enhance training, embed robust policies, and improve systems and practice across staff, volunteers, and partner schools
• Deliver operational safeguarding oversight and training delivery
• Develop services to support multi‑agency working and contribute to better outcomes for children and young people

• Managerial experience in a safeguarding context
• Safeguarding experience within an education setting

This is a maternity cover role from 1 October 2026 to 30 November 2027 (14 months).

• Annual leave that increases with service
• Comprehensive learning and development to enable career progress
• 5% contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance of four times your annual salary
• A comprehensive employee assistance programme
• Mobile phone discounts (EE network)
• Well‑being days to allow you some ‘you’ time
• Christmas holiday closure period in addition to your annual leave

We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented within our organisation.

We are proud to be a disability confident employer and will ask you during your application if you wish to be considered for a guaranteed interview under the disability confident scheme. Under the scheme we commit to offering an interview to disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria as outlined in the job role.

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We value honesty, integrity and creativity and want to understand what you will uniquely bring to our team. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.