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Kingston and Richmond Safeguarding Children Partnership: Coordinator
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Permanent
Full Time
Office bases in Twickenham & Kingston and WFH
Objective of role
Are you passionate about safeguarding children? Are you looking for a new challenge? Would you like to work with a range of partner agencies, service providers, professionals, third sector organisations, and other stakeholders to ensure that we all work in a system that responds to the needs and interests of children and families across Kingston and Richmond?
If yes come and join the Kingston and Richmond Safeguarding Partnership team in this permanent role to work with schools, the voluntary, community & faith sectors to promote effective joint working to safeguard children in Kingston and Richmond.
About the role
You must have:-
1. Experience of working in children's safeguarding
2. Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding legislation, statutory frameworks and national policy affecting services for children and young people
3. Experience of working in or contributing to multi-agency services to safeguard children and young people
4. Experience of working with a range of partner agencies, service providers, professionals, third sector organisations, and other stakeholders
5. Good communication skills both written and verbal and have good ICT skills including proficiency with Microsoft work package
Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience
6. Experience of working in or contributing to multi-agency services to safeguard children and young people.
7. Experience of working with a range of partner agencies, service providers, professionals, third sector organisations, and other stakeholders.
8. Experience of producing business plans, policy documents, briefing notes, website content and other documents
9. Experience of collecting, analysing, interpreting and reporting data and other performance information.
10. Good verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to use different communication styles and techniques to present ideas and influence others
Closing Date: th February
Shortlisting Date: th February
Interview Date: th & th March
We may close this vacancy early once a sufficient number of applications has been received. Please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Richmond & Wandsworth Better Service Partnership are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know.
We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
We offer a wide range of designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.
Richmond and Wandsworth Councils
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