Description Training & Development Officer (Safeguarding) Grade G6 Salary £39,276-£42,771 per annum plus Market Supplement About Us At the London Borough of Havering, we pride ourselves on being an innovative organisation with a commitment to the needs of vulnerable children and adults in the borough. With a firm focus on achieving positive outcomes and reducing risk of harm at all times, the Partnership promotes multi-agency safeguarding best practice. Enjoy delivering training and developing ways to help colleagues learn? Join the Partnership Team, coordinating Adult and Child Safeguarding training to professionals and volunteers in LB Havering. You will be building on successful learning and development programmes and annual Safeguarding Weeks. Providing a mixture of face to face and online training. 18-36 hours per week, flexible and part time working considered About the Job The Local Safeguarding Partnership Training and Development Officer delivers, develops and evaluates our multi-agency safeguarding training for those working or volunteering with adults or children in our borough. You will deliver a minimum of 30 days training per year; this will require the candidate to hold detailed knowledge and skill in a diverse range of specialist disciplines to ensure that training can be delivered to staff at all levels across Partnerships. The successful candidate will build upon the local network of approved trainers/training suppliers, and maintain a system of quality assurance when engaging training consultants with trainer contracts and Assurance measures. The candidate will support working groups in place to progress Partnership priorities by promoting activities and co-ordinating events. We practice anonymised recruitment. Please ensure that you remove all personal information from any documents that you upload. About You Along with experience of safeguarding adults and or children work, you should have experience of developing and delivering training and an understanding of contemporary safeguarding issues in the UK; You will have Financial/Resources responsibility for: Safeguarding training budgets; You will have good written and verbal presentation skills which will be tested during the interview; You will have good IT skills in order to administer and develop our training area on our Partnership website: https://safeguardinghavering.org.uk/training/ For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Elisabeth.Major@havering.gov.uk The closing date for the receipt of applications is 12/03/2026, however interest in this job may be high and we therefore reserve the right to close the vacancy early. You will be notified if your application has been successful. Interview date to be confirmed. Please view Job Profile here Additional Information The London Borough of Havering is a Disability Confident employer. Candidates who declare that they have a disability in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 and meet the essential criteria as specified in the Job Profile will be guaranteed an interview. Priority consideration on all advertised roles will be given to London Borough of Havering Redeployees. The London Borough of Havering is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable groups and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Please be aware that a Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS) check will be required for any position with access to these groups under the provision of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. In addition, the Authority reserves the right to request employees undertake a basic disclosure check (Disclosure Scotland) where required for the role this includes anyone who has access to (or information obtained directly from) a government database, or has a GCSX account. These posts will be required to have a Basic Disclosure Scotland check as per the requirements of BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standards). Please attach your supporting statement, explaining in no more than x2 A4 sides why and how you meet the criteria for this role.