What's involved with this role: Role: Cadet Safeguarding Support Worker Ref: JM 524 IR35: In Scope Pay Rate: £139.98 per day PAYE Contract Length: 6 months Hours Per Week: 37 Location: Aldershot or Edinburgh Working Arrangements: Hybrid - 3 days/week on site Our client is seeking a Safeguarding Support Worker who is suitably qualified and an expert practitioner in safeguarding practice. The successful candidate will be confident in conducting child safeguarding investigations and working collaboratively with multiple agencies, always maintaining a child-centred approach. You will work closely with children, families, volunteers, and staff within the Army Cadets, as well as with partner agencies such as social care, education, and law enforcement. If you have experience working in a safeguarding role, or a strong understanding of safeguarding practice and children’s welfare, we encourage you to apply. Key Responsibilities: Work in a child-centered way, promoting the wellbeing and safeguarding of children above all else. Act as a point of contact for safeguarding disclosures, concerns, and referrals, offering guidance and mentorship to colleagues. Liaise effectively with external agencies and statutory partners, ensuring information is captured, shared, and stored appropriately. Review, process, and update cases within the Online Safeguarding Casework Management System. Present summaries of new referrals in daily triage meetings to collaboratively determine next steps. Maintain full and accurate safeguarding records. Support the submission of referrals to relevant safeguarding bodies (e.g., Disclosure and Barring Service, PVG Scotland, Access Northern Ireland). Provide administrative support to case workers, including arranging meetings, booking travel, and taking minutes. Engage actively in regular supervision and professional development. Comply with all relevant data protection legislation, including the Data Protection Act 2018 and GDPR, particularly regarding safeguarding casework. Essential Requirements: Proven experience in front-line child protection or risk assessment involving perpetrators of abuse. Experience working in a fast-paced administrative environment, ideally within organisations such as children’s services, healthcare, law enforcement, or youth-focused sectors. Strong understanding of safeguarding legal frameworks and the ability to apply them in practice. Excellent communication and organisational skills, with attention to detail and discretion when handling sensitive information. We will also add your details to our mail out lists. Please note you may receive details of roles outside of your immediate vicinity, as many candidates are able to relocate temporarily for work. Please disregard any such emails that are not of interest and let us know if you would rather not receive such mailouts and/or if you wish us to delete your details and prefer to apply direct to our advertised roles. If you do not hear from us within three working days, unfortunately your application has not been shortlisted on this occasion. Thank you for your interest in working with us. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. JM Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please.