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The Senior Safeguarding Administrator role offers a unique opportunity to support the Bishop of Leeds and the Safeguarding team, ensuring robust processes and seamless information flow. This 12-month position requires excellent administrative skills and a commitment to safeguarding practices.

As the Senior Safeguarding Administrator, you will play a vital role in providing administrative support to key stakeholders, including the Bishop of Leeds and the Safeguarding team. Your responsibilities will encompass a range of tasks, from managing communications and meeting arrangements to ensuring the bishop's office's safeguarding processes align with published guidance.

You will act as a bridge between the Bishop's office and the diocesan safeguarding office, facilitating effective collaboration and information exchange. Additionally, you will contribute to the development of clear processes for clergy personal files and streamline the Permission to Officiate process, ensuring compliance with guidelines and robust local procedures.

The post is office-based and will involve working flexibly across two Leeds-based sites:

• Leeds Diocesan Office, Church House, 17-19 York Place, Leeds, LS1 2EX and

• Bishop of Leeds' Office, Hollin House, Weetwood Avenue, Leeds, LS16 5NG.

  Both are easily accessible by public transport

Interviews will take place in person on Thursday 16th July, from 11 am, at Hollin House, Weetwood Ave, in Leeds.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support to the Bishop of Leeds and the Safeguarding team, including email and letter communications, query management, and PTO/OPTO paperwork preparation.
• Ensure the bishop's office's safeguarding processes are robust and aligned with published guidance.
• Facilitate collaboration between the Bishop's office and the diocesan safeguarding office through regular meetings, communication, and direct work with both teams.
• Support the administrative review of clergy personal files and develop clear processes for their management.
• Streamline the Permission to Officiate process at a local level, adhering to published guidance and developing electronic and physical filing systems.
• Identify gaps and develop new processes locally, with the ability to elevate procedural suggestions to the safeguarding team.
• Manage a busy workload, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines effectively.
• Handle confidential information in line with GDPR and local policies.
• Demonstrate sensitivity to the cultural and traditional diversity within the Diocese's parishes.
• Maintain a flexible work approach and be willing to travel between sites as needed.

About You

• Excellent IT skills are essential, along with strong communication abilities, both written and verbal.
• The ability to innovate, initiate, and maintain effective administrative procedures is crucial.
• Experience in administrative roles and a relevant business administration qualification are required.
• Prior knowledge or experience in a safeguarding setting is desirable.
• Sensitivity to different cultures, traditions, and activities within the Diocese's parishes is essential.
• A flexible work approach and the ability to work collaboratively as part of a small team are key.
• The capacity to relate to a wide range of people and organizations is important.
• The ability to ensure personal and professional development is valued.
• Trustworthiness in managing sensitive data with discretion and integrity is a must.
• An empathetic understanding of the Church of England's faith and mission, as well as a commitment to reflecting Diocesan values, is essential.

Closing date for Applications is 07 July at 23:55

We are looking for a motivated and experienced Senior Administrator to oversee the day to day functions of the Kent and Medway administration team within Victim Support. This role is full time and based at our multi agency shared space called Compass House in Ashford Kent.

What we offer

At Victim Support, we are committed to attracting and retaining the best talent. Our competitive rewards and benefits package includes:

• Flexible Working Options: Including hybrid working.
• Generous Annual Leave: 28 days plus Bank Holidays, increasing to 33 days plus Bank Holidays, with options to buy or sell annual leave.
• Birthday Leave: An extra day off for your birthday.
• Pension Plan: 5% employer contribution.
• Enhanced Allowances: Enhanced sick pay, maternity, and paternity payments.
• Exclusive Discounts: High Street, retail, holiday, gym, entertainment, and leisure discounts.
• Financial Wellbeing: Access to our financial wellbeing hub and salary-deducted finance.
• Wellbeing Support: Employee assistance programme and wellbeing support.
• Inclusive Networks: Access to EDI networks and colleague cafes.
• Sustainable Travel: Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loans.
• Career Development: Ongoing training and support with opportunities for career progression.

About the Role

As a Senior Administrator you will manage a team of five administrators known locally as 'Service Delivery Assistants' to oversee the support to the Kent and Medway Victim Support Operational Teams including the Triage and Early Intervention team, the Multi Crime Service Case Workers and the Specialist Services Case Workers (Stalking, Hate Crime and Child and Young Persons)

You will manage performance and staff motivation, ensuring that the administration function operates effectively and efficiently carrying out tasks as directed by the Operations Manager. The post holder will need to be flexible and prepared to meet conflicting work demands, prioritise workloads and ensure timeframes are met whilst ensuring attention to detail.

As the role involves providing support to administrators and actively working to improve performance, you will need experience of managing people and working in a statutory, voluntary or community work setting. You will also have an understanding and knowledge of confidentiality and safe working.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate and participate in all administrative functions to ensure the smooth and effective running of the service, monitoring quality standards for the team through auditing and reporting where required.
• Provide effective line management of staff to ensure performance targets and agreed outcomes are met by the service.
• Act as first point of contact for key stakeholders, ensuring administration is dealt with efficiently and meets quality standards and lead by example on good working practices
• Ensuring all confidential and sensitive data is stored securely in accordance with VS Data Protection Policy and compliance with GDPR.

About You

You will need:

• Experience of working in an administrative position ideally within the criminal justice field.
• Previous experience of managing and supervising people
• Experience working with local communities, statutory and voluntary sector organisations and an understanding of how agencies work to protect victims of crime.
• Experience of performance reporting and training delivery.
• To be proactive, self-motivated, confident working independently and able to use you own initiative
• Good IT skills, proficient in data management and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint)
• Strong time management and organisational skills including the ability to meet tight deadlines.

About Us:

Victim Support is an independent charity dedicated to supporting people affected by crime and traumatic incidents in England and Wales. We put them at the heart of our organisation and our support and campaigns are informed and shaped by them and their experiences.

Victim Support are committed to recruiting with care and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Background checks and Disclosed Barring Service checks may be required.

At Victim Support, we're proud to celebrate diversity and create a workplace where everyone feels they belong. We're committed to being an antiracist organisation, and we actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including those from Black and Asian and other minoritised communities.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet all essential criteria for a job where it is practicable to do so. We are also happy to make reasonable adjustments during the recruitment and selection process.

How to apply:

To apply for this role please follow the link below to the Jobs page on our website and complete the application form demonstrating how you meet the essential shortlisting criteria.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, if we receive enough suitable applications to take forward to interview prior to the published closing date. If you have already registered & started an application, then we will contact you to advise of the amended closing date wherever possible.