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Job Summary
Do you want to help strengthen safeguarding across Defence? This is an excellent opportunity to join the Defence Safeguarding Team in an SEO role, contributing to policy development, governance, assurance and improvement activity for safeguarding children and adults at risk across Defence.
Safeguarding in Defence is unlike safeguarding in any other organisation. The team provides advisory, policy and assurance support across a broad range of safeguarding areas, including matters affecting overseas commands in environments where statutory safeguarding arrangements may be limited or absent. You will support the development and delivery of effective arrangements to prevent harm, respond to concerns, identify risk and contribute to continuous improvement.
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.
Job Description
The SO1 Safeguarding will be a focal point for a wide range of safeguarding issues and will support the development of Defence safeguarding arrangements, good practice, policy and training.
Key Tasks Include:
- Providing safeguarding advice and support to Defence personnel and overseas safeguarding partnerships.
- Assessing complex situations and sensitive information and support robust risk assessment and decision making in line with relevant Defence policy and guidance.
- Maintain a system to document risks and concerns raised, ensuring that appropriate follow up is conducted.
- Work with colleagues in the Safeguarding Team to strengthen the implementation of safeguarding policy and procedures and to build the skills of Defence personnel and partners in managing concerns.
- Undertake assurance visits and reviews of individual cases to ensure quality and safety of practice.
- Improve the quality of safeguarding across Defence through the implementation of lessons identified from case reviews and thematic audits.
- Support and contribute to the development of monitoring criteria and systems, which will enable evaluation of safeguarding across Defence.
- Represent the Safeguarding Team at Defence working groups and forums.
- Take the lead for a specialist area for the Safeguarding Team as requested, e.g. Domestic Abuse, under 18 Service Personnel, Training, Prevent.
- Be fully conversant with, and maintain an awareness of, safeguarding legislation, guidance and policy both within England and the devolved administrations.
- Liaise with a wide range of agencies and organisations, interpreting legislation, guidance and policy and ensuring best safeguarding practice.
- Contribute to policy development.
- Be current in relation to themes and trends in safeguarding, able to provide information, advice and guidance on a wide range of safeguarding related topics.
- Contribute to the development and delivery of awareness raising/training programmes as required.
- Promote effective networking at local, national and international levels.
- Engage in the formal programme of assurance activity which may include planned international and domestic travel
Person specification
Essential
- Relevant professional qualification or professional position with significant experience in a safeguarding capacity.
- Substantial knowledge and experience of Working Together guidance on safeguarding responsibilities and all other relevant legislation, statutory guidance, regulations and guidelines.
- Demonstrable experience of developing policy, procedures or assurance frameworks.
- Demonstrable experience of successful partnership and multi-agency working.
- Demonstrable experience of monitoring, analysing and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information to improve outcomes.
- Demonstrable experience of undertaking formal safeguarding assurance related activity.
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Desirable
- Experience of working with Safeguarding Partnerships.
- Experience in Defence or similar large-scale, multi-agency environments.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
- Working Together
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £46,040, Ministry of Defence contributes £13,337 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and working from home as part of a non-contractual hybrid working arrangement. All office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to site capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD workplace, will also count towards this level of office attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this and other flexible working arrangements may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.
The post does not offer relocation expenses.
External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.
Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.
Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.
Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.
The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.
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Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
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Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history; qualification details and previous skills and experience.
Candidates will be required to provide a statement of suitability in no more than 750 words providing evidence of how you meet these criteria.
At sift, Candidates will be assessed against their CV, Statement of suitability and the following Behaviours:
- Leadership
- Communicating & Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
- Working Together
At interview, Candidates will be assessed against the following Behaviours:
- Leadership
- Communicating & Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
- Working Together
As part of the selection process, candidates will be required to deliver a 10-minute presentation on a safeguarding topic, which will be provided in advance. The presentation will be assessed alongside the interview and will provide an opportunity for candidates to demonstrate their safeguarding knowledge, analytical skills, communication style, and ability to convey complex issues to a professional audience. Further details, including the presentation topic and format, will be provided to shortlisted candidates in advance of the interview.
Further Information:
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system.
Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.
The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero-tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation. You will not be eligible and will not be considered for this post if you have been dismissed from a role for such unacceptable behaviours within the last five years. This will also apply if you resign or otherwise leave a role but, because of an adverse decision, would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had you continued in that employment. Pre-employment checks will be carried out.
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