Vacancies

Safeguarding Coordinator

Main Responsibility

Summary:

Support department operations, ensuring compliance and tracking LAC RHAs. Perform general office duties and act as the initial contact for the LAC and safeguarding team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Administrative Support: Handle filing, photocopying, mail distribution, training resource preparation, archiving, email management, stationery supplies, and report preparation.
• Meeting Coordination: Organise meetings, workshops, and events. Prepare agendas, book rooms, take minutes, and manage follow-up actions.
• Record Management: Maintain manual and electronic records, collate information and update databases.
• Communication: Handle complex and sensitive enquiries, maintain good working relationships, and distribute information effectively.
• Support: Assist with safeguarding supervision, maintain accurate records, and support the LAC and safeguarding working groups.
• Data Management: Develop systems for information storage, capture KPI data, and ensure compliance with Caldicott guidelines.
• Continuous Improvement: Promote quality improvement, engage in training, and support organisational change.

The Ideal Candidate

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written)
• Ability to liaise with diverse Health staff and partner agencies
• Confident and helpful telephone manner
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Ability to work unsupervised and prioritise workload
• Mature, flexible approach and good listening skills
• Proficient in Word Processing, Excel, Database development, PowerPoint, Office Outlook, Microsoft Outlook
• Ability to meet strict and conflicting deadlines under pressure using own initiative
• Accurate information analysis and attention to detail

You will work Monday and Friday and a third day will be decided during the selection process 

Package Description

As a Safeguarding Coordinator you’ll be part of our valued team at our Preston Hub

You will feel valued as a Safeguarding Administrator within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• £22,308 FTE with group pension 
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year 
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.