General Duties
About County Safeguarding Officer
- To comply with individual’s responsibilities as laid out in Cricket East health and safety policies and actively promote a positive health and safety culture.
- To comply with individual’s responsibilities as laid out in Cricket East Equality and Diversity Policy and actively promote equality and diversity.
- To comply with individual’s responsibilities as laid out in Cricket East confidentiality and data protection policies and maintain confidence.
Main Duties
- To fulfil the duties of the County Safeguarding Officer in relation to Cricket East’s Safeguarding Framework, being the first point of call for all safeguarding incidents and reports across the network and supporting investigations when required.
- To be responsible for the monitoring and evaluation of all Policies, Procedures and Practices.
- To monitor all mandatory qualifications for staff and workforce hired or used by Cricket East whether paid or unpaid and inform the individuals and their line manager when they need to update their training or compliance documentation.
- To support all department leads to understand their Safeguarding responsibilities, and to create a positive child-centred environment. Provide regular training and support via drop-in clinics and individual calls throughout the year.
- To provide and / or facilitate annual safeguarding training for Board Directors, staff, and wider Cricket East workforce.
- To support the Cricket East network of Club & League Safeguarding Officers, ensuring compliance standards are achieved and maintained and proactive safeguarding actions are being considered and implemented.
- Supporting the Cricket East Performance Pathway with safeguarding, ensuring all children are listened to and parents, coaches, volunteers involved know correct reporting lines.
- To support any safeguarding concerns being managed within the organisation, ensuring concerns are investigated swiftly and thoroughly in conjunction with ECB’s safeguarding team and statutory agencies – and with demonstrable outcomes.
- To provide a report to the Board Lead for Safeguarding for all Board meetings.
- To ensure compliance with safer recruitment practices, including as the Primary County Wide ‘Safeguarding Recruiter,’ and ID verifier, using the ECB Online system.
- To provide learning outcomes and training for Club Safeguarding Officers on safeguarding and best practice.
- Host Safeguarding clinics through the year for updates and to take questions from Club Safeguarding Officers.
- To ensure there is a clear referral pathway for sharing, reporting, and recording concerns, inline with ECB policy and guidance; and Club staff know how to access them.
- To support clubs in ensuring people in required roles have ECB DBS checks, and requirements around Overseas Players, coaches & personnel.
- To be the lead person for Cricket East in supporting clubs to achieve the ECB Safeguarding standards.
- To undertake any other responsibilities as directed by Cricket East.
- Attend all relevant training and updates that are organised by the ECB safeguarding team.
Person Specification – Essential Skills / Requirements
- Professional experience of safeguarding gained through relevant undertaking and management of casework e.g., Police, Social work, Education, other sporting bodies, including an understanding of current relevant legislation, best practice, and national framework for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. ECB safe Hands Training desirable – but can be work towards once successful candidate is in post.
- Understanding of the ECB’s role and responsibilities to safeguard the welfare of children and young people, including ECB safeguarding children policy documents.
- Understanding of local arrangements for managing safeguarding children and reporting procedures.
- Experience of building relationships with key stakeholders.
- Experience of working to high levels of confidentiality including the storage of confidential documents.
- Enthusiasm and commitment to safeguarding.
- Ability to challenge poor practice and effect change.
- Ability to manage a workforce, including coaches, managers, and volunteers.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- High degree of organisation and ability to prioritise workloads.
- The role will involve some evening and weekend work, so ability to work unsociable hours is essential.
- An Enhanced ECB DBS check with Children’s Barred List check is required for this role.
If you would like to apply for this important role across Cricket East please contact click apply or call Sam Rose on click apply
Closing date for all Applications will be Friday 4th March, after which we will conduct suitable formal interviews which will take place week beginning 7th March.
If you would like to know more about the role, please pick up the phone or email.
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