Safeguarding Risk Compliance Officer

Number of Vacancies:

1

Time Type:

Full time

Worker Type:

Regular

Proposed Interview Date:

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Hours of Work:

37

Hiring Manager:

Amanda Morgan

Contact Number: 

01482 616100

Job Description Summary:

This is a Permanent, Full Time position.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Mandi Morgan, Education Safeguarding Manager on 07908 638 340 or [email protected]

Want to make a real difference to the lives of vulnerable children and young people?

Hull City Council is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Safeguarding and Risk Compliance Officer to work with in partnership with Alternative Provisions. This is a vital role for an experienced education professional who is passionate about improving outcomes for vulnerable learners and ensuring they receive high quality, safe, and appropriate educational provision.

About the Role
As a Safeguarding and Compliance Officer, you will play a key role in safeguarding children and young people, ensuring concerns are managed in line with statutory processes and Hull City Council safeguarding policies. The role requires regular travel to AP providers around the city, conducting safeguarding and quality assurance audits ensuring Alternative Provision (AP) providers meet the highest standards to enable learners to thrive and reach their full potential.

You will be supporting the local authority in meeting its Section 19 statutory duties, ensuring children unable to attend school receive suitable education. As a professional, you will be required to provide expert guidance to schools, AP providers, social care, and other partners around safeguarding and AP quality and contribute to the development and improvement of systems to monitor, track, and evaluate AP provision across Hull.

About You
We are looking for someone with a strong background in education, safeguarding and quality assurance particularly in supporting vulnerable children and young people. You will possess detailed knowledge of Keeping Children Safe in Education and understand the current Ofsted framework and what high-quality AP should look like.

ROLE AND PURPOSE
The Safeguarding Risk Compliance Officer plays a critical role in ensuring the safety, wellbeing, and educational entitlement of children and young people placed in both registered and unregistered alternative provisions. Reporting directly to the Safeguarding Manager, the postholder will lead on monitoring safeguarding compliance, health and safety concerns, and multi-agency collaboration to protect vulnerable learners.

The role involves undertaking audits on general health and safety procedures, proactive risk assessment, safeguarding audits, and ensuring that all educational settings meet statutory and regulatory requirements. The officer will act as a key liaison between education providers, families, and external agencies, ensuring that safeguarding concerns are addressed promptly and that children receive safe, inclusive, and high-quality educational experiences.

The Safeguarding Risk Compliance Officer will underpin the above practices in settings through regular delivery of training to group and individual settings.

 

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

1. To promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people

2. Statutory Obligations - Ensure education settings comply with statutory safeguarding duties under the Education Act 2002, Keeping Children Safe in Education and Working Together to Safeguard Children. Ensure compliance with the duties set within the DFE Arranging Alternative Provision guidance.

3. Promote safe and effective care environments in line with the Children Act 1989 and 2004

4. Work with schools, social care, health services, and police to deliver coordinated safeguarding responses. Participate in multi-agency safeguarding arrangements and contribute to strategy discussions and child protection conferences

5. Working with the Safeguarding Manager to conduct safeguarding  and  general health and safety audits  of registered and unregistered alternative provisions.

6. Lead on risk assessments and respond to safeguarding concerns, including critical incidents and whistleblowing reports.

7. Deliver training to Alternative Provisions on general Health, Safety and Safeguarding compliance. Provide specialist advice and guidance on National and Local Alternative Provision and Safeguarding policies and procedures.

8. Maintain accurate safeguarding records and ensure data protection compliance. Provide reports to schools, Families, internal departments and external bodies such as Ofsted

9. Providing support and constructive challenge to Alternative Provision providers where policies, procedures, or practices fall short of current statutory and best practice standards

10. The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and associated legislation places responsibilities for health and safety on Hull City Council, as your employer and you as an employee of the council. In addition to the Councils overall duties, the post holder has personal responsibility for their own health, safety and wellbeing and that of other employees; additional and more specific responsibilities are identified in the Council’s Corporate H&S policy.

 

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Compensation Grades:

GRADES 6.

Pay Ranges:

£29,540.00 - £32,061.00

Job Classifications:

5- Enhanced (Child Workforce) - (Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)), Casual - (Travel Allowance Policy), No - (Statutory Post)

Benefits of Working of Hull City Council:
- A competitive salary
- An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- Initially 23 days annual leave depending on length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year, and three additional days off, one in May/August and one during the Christmas/New year period
- Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods
- Supportive and forward-thinking culture
- Great career development opportunities

Please ensure that you complete and submit your application by midnight prior to the closing date. Please ensure that your application demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria against the person specification as listed in the job description. 

We are committed to increasing the diversity, equality, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. 

We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

We reserve the right to amend the dates associated with this advert, which may include closing the advert early where required.

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

Online searches, including social media, may be carried out as part of the recruitment process.