Designated Safeguarding Officer (Women's & Girls) -, BN15, England
Role: Designated Safeguarding Officer (Women’s & Girls’)
Hours : 35 hours per week, including evenings and weekends
American Express Elite Football Performance Centre, Lancing
Contract Type: Permanent
We compete at the highest levels of football on a global stage while embracing our Sussex community spirit. At the heart of everything we do is our commitment to high performance, professional excellence, and making a positive impact.
Provide expert safeguarding advice to our Women’s & Girls’ team
This role will play an active and integral part of the wider Performance and Wellbeing team, providing advice to enable a safe culture and environment. You will build relationships with, and be a key link between parents, school safeguarding networks, and statutory agencies as a key avenue of communication. You will manage all safeguarding concerns, and use the club’s online recording tool, ensuring you keep all relevant parties updated in a professional manner in line with the club’s safeguarding policy.
It is essential that you have experience of working with children and young people in an educational or youth centred setting, experience of holding safeguarding responsibilities and a strong knowledge of thresholds and referral processes. You will also have a good working knowledge of the principles in KSCIE (Keeping Children Safe in Education) and Working Together to Safeguard Children guidance. You will be a visible and approachable face of safeguarding and have a passion to promote good practice through training and workshops.
23 days holiday rising with length of service (pro rata for part time staff)
⚡ Rewards platform, which includes access to 900+ retailers, a wellbeing centre and more!
? Enhanced family policies
?️♀️ Access to a gym and padel court at our training ground
? In-house training programme and CPD opportunities
? Exclusive discounts and benefits from our partners and local businesses
We take pride in being an equal opportunity workplace that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Our core values foster a strong ethical culture, enabling us to meet the needs of our diverse audience, both on and off the pitch. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage or civil partnership. Safeguarding is part of everything we do
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk. All job offers are conditional upon background checks, including a full 3-year reference history, DBS checks, and verification of your eligibility to work.