Job Description
JOB PURPOSE & MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, you will be responsible for:
Acting as the designated person within our organisation with primary responsibility for handling and reporting concerns about children
Putting into place policies and procedures to safeguard children across the organisation and membership, including supporting club and event welfare officers

Including:
• Playing a lead role in developing and establishing the organisation’s approach and implementation plan to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults
• Managing cases of poor practice and abuse reported to the organisation
• Managing referrals to social-care services, police and Local Authority Designated Officers
• Acting as the central point of contact for internal and external individuals and agencies
• Representing the organisation at external meetings related to safeguarding
• Representing the organisation at any convened panels and presenting cases
• Coordinating the dissemination of policy, procedure and resource throughout the organisation
• Providing advice and support to club and event welfare officers
• Developing and implementing the organisation and its members training needs
• Ensuring safeguarding standards are met and maintained
• Keeping own knowledge and skills up to date
Acting as the designated person within our organisation with primary responsibility for handling, investigating and administrating complaints and grievance

Including:
• Playing a lead role in drafting and updating relevant policies for clubs and members, including the communication and training on such policies.
• Implementing procedures for dealing with complaints and grievances.
• Managing, investigating and administrating cases as necessary
• Managing referrals to internal disciplinary panels and external local authority bodies
• Representing the organisation at any convened panels and presenting cases
• Providing advice and support to club and event welfare officers
• Ensuring Code of Conduct standards are met and maintained

Required Knowledge
Knowledge and Understanding of:
• Behaviour that is harmful to children, thresholds of poor practice and abusive behaviour
• Core values and principles of work with children
• Inclusion, diversity and safeguarding issues
• How abusers target and groom organisations in order to abuse children
• How adults groom children for abuse
• Best practice in prevention
• Legislation, government guidance and national framework for safeguarding children
• Role and responsibilities of statutory agencies
• An organisation’s role, responsibilities and procedures related to safeguarding and protecting children
• Processes for the management of safeguarding enquiries and investigations
• Boundaries of the safeguarding officer role
• Development of Code of Conduct policies
• Processes for the management of complaints and grievance cases
• Risk assessments and risk management reporting
• The management of the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) in line with current policy and procedures.

Competencies
• Child-focused approach
• Understands the issues affecting children, young people and vulnerable adults, and how these issues should be managed.
• Ability to promote and demonstrate anti-discriminatory practice
• Advice and support-provision skills at all levels
• Communication skills
• Ability to develop and produce national level guidance and resources
• Ability to work with conflict and emotionally distressing matters in a calm and sympathetic manner
• Sets high standards for self and is dissatisfied with average performance
• Behaves at all times in a professional manner that is fair, open and transparent, with discretion, sensitivity & confidentiality
• Understands the need for respect and confidentiality
• Can demonstrate the ability to develop project plans
• Builds effective relationships both internally and externally
• Be willing to undertake reasonable travel to fulfil duties
• Administration and systems (records) management skills
• Expresses both orally and in writing, ideas and information in ways that are appropriate, accurate and concise
• Solves problems creatively by identifying the problem, evaluating the alternatives and finding innovative solutions
• Proficient in Microsoft IT packages including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Clean driving licence.
• Eligibility to work in the work

How to apply
Please submit your CV with a covering letter outlining your relevant experience and why you are suitable for this role.
And send to: recruitment@britishtaekwondo.org
Closing Date for Applications: FRIDAY 29th November 2019