An opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated individual to join this small team developing and delivering compelling training to develop best safeguarding practice in dioceses and religious life groups. The successful candidate will require significant safeguarding training delivery experience.
The Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency (CSSA) is a new agency actively engaged in delivering wide ranging reforms to safeguarding policy and practice in the Catholic Church in England and Wales. We are a community of committed safeguarding professionals at the forefront of their profession and committed to making lasting, survivor led step change in safeguarding policy and practice across the Church. The Training Adviser role will contribute to ensuring that the voice and experience of survivors permeates every aspect of CSSA policy, practice and culture.
Working extensively from home or our office, 39 Eccleston Square, London SW1V 1BX, a short walk from Victoria Station in Central London and travelling throughout England and Wales, the successful safeguarding training professional will work in partnership with Diocesan Safeguarding Coordinators and other stakeholders to develop and deliver high quality, needs led, training to continuously develop safeguarding awareness across the Catholic Church in England and Wales. You will develop relevant safeguarding materials as well as deliver training to a broad range of audiences as part of a dedicated team embedding safeguarding awareness and practice into the culture of the Church in England and Wales.
In addition, it is expected and a requirement of the role that where capacity allows that the post holder will work on and assist in the development of other CSSA led projects and initiatives to further safeguarding excellence in the Catholic Church of England and Wales.
Key responsibilities
- To ensure that survivors and victims of abuse receive respect, are listened to, are learned from, individually and collectively as wise consultees.
- To develop and deliver consistent and impactful safeguarding training in partnership with dioceses and religious life groups to embed awareness and understanding of safeguarding issues and best practice.
- To provide professional training related support to a range of stakeholders in partnership with Diocesan and Religious Congregation Safeguarding co-ordinators, Religious Safeguarding Leads and Catholic organisations on policy, procedure, good practice and DBS application processes.
- To make recommendations to continuously improve national safeguarding policy to ensure CSSA remains at the forefront of implementing safeguarding best practice.
- Through training make the Church’s safeguarding policies and guidance are accessible to everyone involved with Church activities by raising awareness.
- To assist in the development of CSSA projects and initiatives to further safeguarding excellence in the Church of England and Wales.
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