Safeguarding Officer

Are you an experienced safeguarding professional who is passionate about protecting people from harm?Join us as aSafeguarding Officerand play a key role in supporting customers and colleagues across A2Dominion.

Working as part of our central Safeguarding team, you'll provide advice, guidance and support on safeguarding concerns, acting as a key point of contact for colleagues across the organisation. You'll assess and manage safeguarding cases, support risk assessments and make timely referrals to statutory services and other agencies to help ensure customers receive the right support.

You'll balance case management and maintaining accurate records with providing safeguarding advice, supporting training and awareness activities, and working closely with colleagues and external partners. You'll also play an important role in promoting best practice and helping to ensure safeguarding policies, procedures and approaches are implemented effectively across the organisation.

We're looking for someone with strong safeguarding experience, including experience of supporting people facing challenging circumstances and managing safeguarding risks. You'll be a confident communicator, comfortable providing advice and guidance to colleagues at all levels and building effective relationships with customers, managers and external agencies.

A Standard DBS check is required for this role.

Please refer to the attached Role Profile for full responsibilities and deliverables.

More About You

• At least three years' experience in safeguarding and supporting people's wellbeing, including providing advice, coaching and influencing others
• Safeguarding Training Level 3
• A very good understanding of domestic abuse and experience of supporting victims to mitigate risk
• Confident managing safeguarding concerns and completing relevant documentation, including risk assessments
• Experience of reviewing or supporting the development of policies and procedures
• Able to provide advice, guidance and safeguarding support to colleagues and other stakeholders
• Comfortable working in a busy environment, managing challenging situations and working to prescribed timescales
• Skilled in delivering safeguarding training or briefings to a range of audiences and working with external agencies and partners
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with experience of engaging effectively with staff, managers and customers
• A good understanding of safeguarding within a housing association or similar environment
• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Maths and English (Grades A*–C)
• A degree-level or equivalent professional qualification would be desirable
• A current clean driving licence would also be advantageous

Choosing us is easy
As 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
• 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

Inclusion at A2Dominion
We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, and we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria.Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the process just contact our Resourcing Team at (url removed)

We know some people may hesitate to apply unless they meet every requirement. If that’s you, we’d still encourage you to apply or get in touch with us to talk it through.

At A2Dominion, we value diversity, embrace flexibility, and are a family-friendly employer. Everyone belongs here. Join us and help make a lasting difference in the lives of our customers.

This vacancy is being managed byKate Jacobs.