Summary
The Diocese of Leeds is seeking a Safeguarding Trainer to join the team and deliver high-quality training to clergy, lay staff, and volunteers across the Diocese of Leeds. This is a vital role in ensuring that safeguarding is understood, implemented, and maintained across the Diocese.
Key Responsibilities
* Design and deliver engaging safeguarding training sessions for a range of audiences.
* Ensure all training aligns with national safeguarding standards and diocesan policies.
* Maintain accurate records of training and compliance.
* Support the administration of safeguarding training.
About You
* Excellent communication and presentation skills.
* Ability to adapt training to suit different learning styles and contexts.
* Experience in delivering training (preferably in a safeguarding or compliance setting).
We're committed to fair and inclusive recruitment. That's why all our vacancies are shortlisted anonymously, removing personal details from applications to ensure every candidate is assessed purely on their skills and experience.
The package includes a competitive salary, flexi-time scheme, an 8% non-contributory pension with an additional 5% matched contributions, hybrid working (50%), Cycle to work scheme, EV salary sacrifice scheme and 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays and four customary days a year (between Christmas and New Year).
Closing Date: 11:59pm on 2nd December 2025
Interview date: 9th December 2025
A full DBS check is required for the successful candidate
Our Values
The Diocesan values, Loving, Living, Learning, are vital to the way we encourage equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We aim to:
* Love God, the world and one another.
* Live in the world as it is, but, drawn by a vision of something better, we want to help individuals and communities flourish,
* Learn when we get things wrong, by listening and growing together.
The Diocese of Leeds is proud to be a Living Wage Employer.
Leeds Diocesan Board of Finance (The Board) is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment and the workplace and in avoiding unlawful discrimination. Accordingly, the Board will ensure that recruitment and selection, training and development, and promotion procedures result in no job applicant or employee receiving less favourable treatment on the grounds of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, class or caste, religious belief or lack of religious belief (unless this is an occupational requirement), disability, trade union membership or non-membership, gender or sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, responsibility for dependents or being a part-time or fixed-term worker. The Board's objective is to ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and otherwise treated solely on the basis of their relevant aptitudes, skills and abilities.
For clergy applying to this role, your Area/Suffragan Bishop must be informed of your applications at the earliest opportunity. Furthermore, you must seek a Diocesan Bishop's Licence in order to be eligible for a new role, and please be aware that granting a licence is subject to a CCSL from your Area/Suffragan Bishop.
The Diocese of Leeds is currently unable to sponsor candidates without Right to Work in the UK. Candidates must have Right to Work in the UK to take up this role.
To download a copy of our policy for the recruitment of ex-offenders from the diocesan website, please click on the below link:
https://www.leeds.anglican.org/vacancies
Desired Skills and Experience
About You
* Excellent communication and presentation skills.
* Ability to adapt training to suit different learning styles and contexts.
* Experience in delivering training (preferably in a safeguarding or compliance setting).