Title: - Wellbeing and Safeguarding Adviser – 0.44 FTE (18 hrs. / 38 wks.)
Salary: £30,611 - £32,604 (Pro-rota £13,468 - £14,345)
Are you an experienced safeguarding practitioner with a strong drive to make a difference? We require a skilled and highly motivated individual to join our established team of Wellbeing and Safeguarding Advisers. You will have the passion to inspire every student to reach their full potential regardless of their starting point.
Benefits: As a support colleague you’ll go into the Local Government Pensions scheme and enjoy some really great benefit’s as well, Free on-site Gym at Beaufort Road, Beauty treatments and haircuts, Health care cash plan via Simply Health, saving clubs via Manchester Credit Union, Cycle to work. Costa Coffee on site, Onsite bakery products at Tameside One, The Restaurant at Tameside One, Retail discounts, Refectories on all sites.
Here’s the standard bit: You will provide effective and high-quality Safeguarding and Wellbeing support in accordance with the College’s safeguarding responsibilities. You will work alongside curriculum staff and the wider Progress Team to provide effective strategies which meet the needs of individual students by removing barriers to learning. You will pro-actively promote the safety and wellbeing of students throughout the college. You will have a specific case load of students whilst being on hand to deal with any Safeguarding and Wellbeing issues which may arise on a daily basis.
You will have a proven track record of safeguarding or Wellbeing support ideally in an educational setting. You will be experienced in the appropriate mechanisms for dealing with safeguarding and child protection issues. You will have a sound understanding of the range of issues facing young people with barriers to their learning (including social, emotional and behavioural) and have an ability to motivate students with a diverse range of needs. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and empathy in working with students, ability to remain calm and a problem-solving approach to managing challenging situations.
What you’ll need: Resilience and outstanding interpersonal skills in building good working relationships, use negotiating and diplomacy skills in dealing with other college staff, parents/carers, outside agencies, with a relevant level 3 qualification in safeguarding or wellbeing or equivalent coupled with a level 2 qualification in Literacy and Numeracy knowledge. Please see the person spec and JD for further information.
About us: Tameside College has an excellent reputation and this is a real opportunity for you to make a difference in people’s lives. We’re based in Ashton-Under-Lyne, Greater Manchester in a diverse and vibrant further education college that offers a wide range of course including A level and advanced level vocational study programmes, Apprenticeships and adult courses up to degree Level. We aim to give all our students an exceptional experience.
We believe in excellence and we back that up with high expectations, a superb working environment (as part of the Vision Tameside £100 million+ accommodation strategy) and outstanding teaching. We also believe that attending college is about more than achieving a qualification, important though that is. This is why we aim to give learners every opportunity to develop their full potential in a supportive and friendly environment.
Tameside College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all learners and expects all staff to share this commitment. Employment at Tameside College is subject to an Enhanced DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) Check via the Disclosure and Barring Service and any post in regulated activity will also be subject to an additional barred list check. Tameside College will meet the costs associated with this.
Please note Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 guidance requires us to carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This is to enables us to identify any incidents or issues which we might want to explore at interview with you. Once shortlisting has taken place, this search will be carried out for all candidates who are invited to attend an interview.
Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we are unfortunately not able to respond to each applicant. If you have not been called for interview within 3 weeks of the closing date, you should assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.
Subject to volume of applications, we may decide to close the vacancy early. Come join us on our journey to outstanding!
Recruitment Agencies: We are not utilising the service of recruitment agencies for this vacancy and will accept direct applications only. Any CV’s forwarded for this vacancy will be treated as a gift and not subject to your terms and conditions.
