Key Responsibilities
Lead safeguarding at the centre, ensuring children's safety, wellbeing and protection from harm, while ensuring staff understand their responsibilities and children's views are considered in decisions and policies.
Lead evidence-based investigations into child protection concerns and allegations, ensuring accurate records, appropriate referrals and timely escalation to local authorities and LADO.
Develop and maintain partnerships with external safeguarding agencies, including YOTs, MASH, LADO, Children's Services and other custodial establishments.
Attend and chair multi-agency safeguarding, strategy and Managing Allegation meetings, ensuring effective information sharing and decision-making.
Line manage, supervise, coach and develop staff, including supporting Social Work trainees and student placements.
Coordinate safeguarding training with Milton Keynes Safeguarding Partnership (MK Together), ensuring compliance with local and national guidance.
Assist with internal staff misconduct investigations, gathering evidence and preparing reports for HR.
Promote collaboration across departments to reduce risks and maintain high standards of care, safeguarding and health and safety.
Ensure compliance with safeguarding legislation, organisational policies, UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, maintaining confidentiality and reporting data breaches.
Uphold G4S values, equality, diversity and professionalism, contributing to an inclusive and supportive workplace and safeguarding children and adults at risk.
About you
To succeed in this role, you will need to be a dynamic and engaging individual, with significant experience in a similar role. It is important you have a good knowledge and understanding of Social Work legislation policy and practice.
The role will require you to promote a child centred approach which prioritises both the safeguarding of the children’s welfare and wellbeing.
You will have excellent communication and organisational skills, with a can do attitude, along with an attention to detail. Leading by example, we are looking for a highly motivated and determined person, with the ability to be resilient, confident with a tenacious can-do attitude, have the ability to embrace complexity and be a part of a busy and fast paced team.
At G4S, we invest heavily in our people. If you join us you will have a job specific induction programme to equip you with the skills and knowledge for the job. As well as ongoing support and development opportunities we offer generous holiday entitlement, company pension, an onsite gym, free onsite parking and the chance to do an extraordinary job – every day.
For more information on Oakhill Secure Training Centre please visit, https://oakhillstc.co.uk/
Equality and Diversity is an important part of G4S Care and Rehabilitation Services. We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds and are a fully inclusive employer who aims to support all employees to be their true selves. We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments for either the role or during the recruitment process
G4S Care and Rehabilitation Services is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of children and adults at risk and each employee is expected to support these goals.
Safeguarding children and young people is our primary focus and the welfare of the child is paramount. Therefore we have a corporate responsibility to ensure that the safeguarding and our G4S values are at the centre of all we do.
To apply for this role, you must be eligible to work in the UK and must have been resident in the UK for a minimum of 5 years. This role is subject to safer recruitment practices including a DBS enhanced level security clearance and will need to provide full details of your work and educational history covering the last 10 years as part of the screening process for the role.
G4S is the International business of Allied Universal, the world’s leading security and facility services provider and trusted partner to more than 400 of the Fortune 500. Allied Universal delivers unparalleled customer relationships, innovative solutions, cutting-edge smart technologies and tailored services that enable clients to focus on their core businesses. With operations in over 100 countries and territories, Allied Universal is the third largest private employer in North America and seventh in the world. Annual revenue is approximately $23 billion. There is no greater purpose and responsibility than serving and helping to safeguard customers, communities and people. For more information, visit g4s.com. In the UK, the company has an extensive network of offices and more than 31,000 employees.
