Deputy Safeguarding Lead

Deputy Safeguarding Lead

8 month Fixed Term Contract

Manchester: £34,300 – £38,950

Hybrid working

Passionate about the protection of children and adults against abuse?

Currently working in a safeguarding role?

Feel ready for a new challenge where you can lead high impact work?

Join us, and you will have the opportunity to make a real difference to safeguarding within education assessment. As Deputy Safeguarding Lead you’ll understand how to prioritise, effectively handling a caseload of safeguarding referrals, assessing and triaging appropriately, and allocating work to a seasonal workforce. Being outcome focussed, you’ll monitor progress of cases, ensuring that acceptable timelines are met. You’ll also put your excellent communication skills to good use, liaising with schools and other external agencies as necessary.

Reporting to the Safeguarding Lead you will be resilient person, with a positive can-do attitude and adept at working in a fast-paced environment.

AQA is an independent charity and the largest provider of academic qualifications in the UK. We mark over seven million GCSEs and A-levels each year and it’s our people who make this happen. Our ambition is to see every student realise their potential. As Deputy Safeguarding Lead, you’ll very quickly appreciate the determination and unwavering passion to deliver this goal in everything we do.

You’ll need:

• To confidently investigate, gather and review information and take decisions, acting promptly.
• The ability to produce, gather and interpret sensitive information from a variety of sources to support sound decision-making.
• Excellent planning and organisational abilities, setting and adhering to deadlines and logging information accurately and in a timely, on-going way.
• To be a skilled communicator, both orally and in writing, with the ability to build and foster effective working relationships.
• To confidently assess risks and recommend actions, taking responsibility for decision-making or escalating as appropriate.
• The ability to work in a fast-paced, high pressure environment whilst maintaining quality of decision-making and outcomes.
• The ability to think creatively and solve complex problems.
• To have a ‘step up’ mindset: contributing to a motivated and positive team culture, focussed on service delivery and continuous improvement.

Benefits

At AQA we recognise our employees’ contribution and in return we are proud to offer an extensive reward and benefit package. This includes:

• A supportive and approachable team
• A 35 hour working week
• 25 days’ annual leave rising to 30 days, plus all Bank Holidays and additional Christmas leave
• Excellent contributory pension (6% – 11.5% dependent on employee contribution)
• Life assurance
• Enhanced maternity/paternity scheme
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme offering support with counselling, legal advice and money matters
• Access to Learning space, a modern Learning Management System, providing an environment for self-directed learning from high quality e-learning content
• Cycle to work scheme
• Interest free travel loans