Student Safeguarding and Wellbeing - Manchester

Are you passionate about supporting young people, removing barriers to learning and promoting independence? If so, read on to find out how to join the UK’s leading FE recruiter with additional benefits, offers and referral schemes.

Reed FE are a leading recruitment agency working with colleges, prisons, universities, and training providers across the UK. We are always looking for talented/aspiring support staff to join our team and help us deliver high-quality education to learners.

Safeguarding Team Leader
FTE Salary up to £29,000
Greater Manchester Further Education College

Job Description
To effectively manage a team of Safeguarding Practitioners to ensure a high-quality level of safeguarding support and interventions are provided.
Provide safeguarding case assessments, reviews and monitoring focused on targeted and timely support for at-risk students including high risk safeguarding.

General Responsibilities

• Line-manage a team of Safeguarding Practitioners including setting targets, completing appraisals and addressing any performance issues as per HR policies and procedures.
• Liaise with and lead on 'safeguarding risk’ meetings with to identify and case load students to Safeguarding Practitioners where appropriate.
• Carry out timely and effective risk profiling for all safeguarding alerts and record decisions on college server.
• Carry out initial assessments and allocate cases to the Safeguarding Practitioners
• Monitor timely safeguarding actions and ensure referrals to appropriate support services are made in line with the Safeguarding Policy
• Ensure all high-risk safeguarding risks are shared with the Head of Safeguarding and Pastoral Support and the Designated Safeguarding Leads.

Reed Further Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment by undergoing a 2 year’ employment check and a DBS Application, completing mandatory training within 6 weeks of your first assignment and annually thereafter.

Benefits of working for Reed Further Education/our client:

• Exclusive representation to leading FE colleges, prisons, and training providers in the area
• A specialist further education consultant who will search for jobs on your behalf
• A Health Cash Plan and Reed Discount Club
• Entitlement to Statutory Sick Pay, Statutory Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Pay, Parental Leave and Antenatal/Pre-Adoption Appointment Payment
• Access to Training and Development - Reed Assessment Centre - Reed Learning.
• Great referral bonus’
• Access to roles throughout the UK and online/remote learning

To apply for this role, please send us your updated CV by clicking 'Apply Now'. Your application should demonstrate your passion for educational support and your commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

Not looking for support roles? We are also registering tutors, assessors and technicians through to other FE positions including HR, finance, facilities, administrators. We also have a specialist team of interim and senior management consultants with over 20 years’ experience in the sector.