Safeguarding Officer

Job title:

Safeguarding Officer

Company

A2Dominion

Job description

Job title: Safeguarding Officer
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 35 hours per week Mon-Fri
Salary: £34,628 – £41,918
Location: 113 Uxbridge Road, Ealing, W5 5TL – Hybrid workingAbout A2Dominion
We are a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in.With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable, and private rent, specialist services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.Our 70,000+ customers come from a diverse range of backgrounds with varying levels of income. We’re here to provide them all with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable.And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit is reinvested into our charitable social purpose – delivering more homes and better services for customers.Role Overview
The Safeguarding Officer will work as part of the central safeguarding team, to support and assist the Safeguarding Manager to implement and deliver safeguarding and to ensure full compliance with legislation, regulation and best practice.To support and coordinate the communication across A2D business streams ensuring that actions and risk assessments are completed to support the protection from harm of customers and staff.Key responsibilities
– To act as the first point of contact for staff and others to provide advice, guidance, co-ordinate and case manage safeguarding concerns.
– Support risk assessments related to potential safeguarding concerns to ensure that customers and staffs’ welfare and wellbeing are supported adequately and appropriately.
– To be a champion & support Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA) project and accreditation, with continuous development to safeguard victims of DA.
– Conducting training/briefings, inductions and investigating incidents where required
– To promote and raise awareness of safeguarding to customers and staff.
– To establish and maintain positive and professional relationships with senior managers, managers, champions, customers and contractors and keep safeguarding up to date, including the effective maintenance of the Single Central Register.
– To keep up-to-date legislation, statutory and other associated guidance with regards to safeguarding, cascading the information accordingly.
– Support the development and delivery of safeguarding training as required.
– Attend and represent safeguarding at relevant meetings both internally & externally.More about you
– Minimum of 3 years’ experience in Safeguarding and Wellbeing of people, advising, coaching and influencing safeguarding at all levels essential
– Safeguarding Training Level 2/3 essential
– Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Math’s and English (Grades A*- C)
– Professionally qualified to degree level or equivalent desirable
– Excellent communicator, with evidence of effective engagement working with staff, managers and customers
– Good level of understanding and experience of Domestic Abuse and supporting victims to mitigate risk desirable
– Experience and understanding of completing safeguarding related documentation including risk assessments/ reviewing policies & procedures
– Experience of providing safeguarding training or briefings to a wide range of audiences including working with external agencies & partners as requiredApplication process
Please attach a tailored CV for this role, ensuring it highlights relevant experience and provides explanations for any employment gaps.
Choosing us is easyAs an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:
– 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
– Up to 8% contributory pension
– Flexible working
– Investment in your learning and developmentIn addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will: actively look to attract and recruit disabled people, provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job, be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job, make reasonable adjustments as required.At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and beliefs.If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Resourcing Team to request: resourcing@a2dominion.co.ukMeeting the role requirements
We recognise that some females will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of role requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our Resourcing Team to discuss your application further at resourcing@a2dominion.co.ukA2Dominion are proud to be a family friendly employer
Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity, and inclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of our people and seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. Find out why our people love working with us.Join us at A2Dominion, where your expertise will be integral to our recovery journey, creating lasting positive changes in the lives of our customers. If you possess the right motivation and drive to contribute to our recovery and change initiatives, we invite you to apply and be a crucial part of our team.

Expected salary

£34628 – 41918 per year

Location

Ealing, West London

Job date

Thu, 15 May 2025 07:12:06 GMT

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