Student Welfare and Safeguarding Adviser

Job Kind

Full Time Everlasting

Wage

£38,205 – £42,978 every year

Location

Waterside Campus

Concerning the Job 

Interview Date: 25 Might 2024

The Pupil Welfare and Safeguarding Adviser works as one among two Deputy Lead Safeguarding Officers throughout the Safeguarding  Crew of Pupil Companies, managing a case-load of complicated and time delicate scholar instances with the goal of guaranteeing scholar security and wellbeing whereas guaranteeing that instances are carefully monitored and the College’s response is suitable and well timed.

You’ll ship top quality, correct and personalised recommendation and steering to employees throughout the College on points regarding scholar welfare and safeguarding and guarantee employees and college students can navigate and work together with the College’s rules and related scholar insurance policies. Additionally, you will be accountable for efficient stories and information to make sure correct monitoring of the affect of the realm. 

You’ll develop networks inside and with out of the establishment to boost scholar help and you’ll prepare and disseminate knowledgeable data of the realm to colleagues throughout the College in help of susceptible college students.

We wish you to have the ability to perform your work in a method that greatest helps UON and our college students, but in addition you as a person. We perceive this may increasingly range between totally different areas of the college in addition to from one particular person to a different. With Smarter Working you’ll be able to work with elevated flexibility, if you need to, which might facilitate better freedom and autonomy.

This publish is topic to a background disclosure test by the Disclosure and Barring Service earlier than any appointment will be confirmed.

About You

You should have a sophisticated data and expertise within the utility of Safeguarding and Welfare insurance policies and practices, ideally inside a Larger Schooling setting. You’ll perceive the problems and challenges that may affect a college students’ welfare and have the ability to exhibit expertise of a multi-agency strategy to case administration.

You’ll be resilient, with a confirmed report of coping with complicated, difficult and troublesome conditions in a well timed and empathetic method. You’ll be digitally literate with a dedication to knowledge integrity and to the usage of knowledge to observe efficiency and to make service enhancements and have confirmed expertise of offering clear info to a variety of audiences, together with senior managers, to convey technical or complicated info successfully.

Important {Qualifications}

• A qualification linked to safeguarding and managing danger, or a willingness to undertake additional
  schooling and/or coaching and growth on this space

Library, Studying and Pupil Companies

Pupil Companies consists of 5 groups; Counselling and Psychological Well being, ASSIST, Incapacity Assist, Monetary Steering, Pupil Recommendation and Assist and The Pupil Info Desk. It stories to the Director of Library, Studying and Pupil Companies alongside the college library and central help for studying and instructing. 

The Directorate has a dedication to the coed expertise however can also be dedicated to creating employees. We’re working in the direction of the College Psychological Well being Constitution and are presently engaged with the Advance-HE Constructing Belonging Challenge and the Drug and Alcohol Affect Challenge.

About Us

Come to the College of Northampton and you will note that we do issues a bit in a different way.

We’re one of many youngest universities within the UK however we’re already main the best way in including worth to society, which we name social affect. We’ve got gained a number of awards for our work on this space, amongst others, however what issues probably the most to us is guaranteeing that our college students and graduates have the chance to make their mark on the world too. That’s why we had been the primary college within the UK to be named as a Changemaker Campus in 2012.

We wish to break the mould of what Larger Schooling will be. This has led us to construct a complete new College from the bottom up that’s designed to mirror the best way that college students truly study moderately than the best way they’re anticipated to study. Waterside Campus opened in September 2018.

Our dedication to reworking lives and provoking change is on the coronary heart of all that we do.

Proper to Work

All candidates will probably be requested to offer proof of eligibility to work within the UK at interview. 

Equality

We welcome functions from underrepresented teams.

The College of Northampton is dedicated to offering a vibrant, moral and sustainable work, examine and residing setting that values equality, variety and inclusion.

This dedication, together with our authorized and ethical obligations, offers an inclusive setting for employees, college students and the general public who could also be affected by our actions.

Collectively @ UON confirms our dedication to equality and inclusion, underpinned by our perception in taking motion. We’re devoted to creating an setting that celebrates equality and harnesses the facility of variety.

Collectively @ UON demonstrates our pledge to our employees, college students and companions to nurture and develop an setting the place equality and inclusion can thrive while we Rework Lives and Encourage Change.

To seek out out extra, please go to: https://www.northampton.ac.uk/about-us/governance-and-management/administration/equality-and-diversity/