Senior Education Safeguarding Advisor

About Us

We are looking to recruit a Senior Education Safeguarding Advisor in the Education Safeguarding Advisory Team (ESAT). The purpose of the position is to lead an increased capacity within ESAT. To lead on developing the existing offer from ESAT and to increase support and improve practice within wider settings outside of schools and colleges, including all Early Years settings, Childminders and Alternative Provision.

Although this is a county wide role, each advisor will be linked to a Family Hub as the Hubs are developed. This will support working relationships in areas between settings and multi-agency partners. The Senior will support and oversee these arrangements.

The team sits within the LADO and ESAT service. ESAT, although a separate team, works closely with LADO to ensure appropriate allegation management processes in education settings.

About the Role

The Senior Education Safeguarding Advisor will lead the team.

The aims of the Education Safeguarding Advisory Team:

• To work with educational settings including childminders, pre-schools, nurseries, schools, colleges and Alternative Provisions to ensure they are effectively fulfilling their roles and responsibilities in relation to safeguarding children.

• To support settings to keep children safe and promote their welfare as required by the Early Years Foundation Stage, Section 175 and 157 of the Education Act, Keeping Children Safe in Education and Working Together to Safeguard children.

• To build relationships with settings to support safeguarding practice through advice and guidance, auditing, advisory reviews, training, learning events.

• To respond to emerging needs and build networks with other providers if and when need arises, for example Language schools, Post 16 provisions, Higher Education settings.

• Develop policies and practice guidance for settings, to develop and deliver safeguarding training packages for staff and volunteers including Governors, to train, support and supervise Designated Safeguarding Leads.

• To ensure education safeguarding representation for OSCP sub-groups, multi-agency forums and case reviews.

• To support settings through Rapid Review, CSPR, CDOP processes and identify and take forward learning for the setting and the wider sector.

• To quality assure safeguarding practice through the creation, collection and reporting of safeguarding audits as required through the Section 175/157.

About you

Are you are a skilled leader and safeguarding professional? Do you have significant safeguarding experience in a School, Early Years setting or Childrens services? Are you able to lead a team? Can you support and advise other practitioners in their safeguarding practice and processes? Are you looking for a new challenge?

Are you:

• Able to lead a team
• Highly organised, self‑motivated and able to work autonomously.
• Committed to restorative, relational and solution‑focused practice.
• Able to work flexibly, sometimes in the evenings or at weekends.
• A car user with business insurance (due to travel across the county).