Stay Safe Officer

Job Introduction

Are you passionate about working with children and young people? Are you a confident and motivational presenter, who is able to build instant connections? Do you want a challenge with lots of reward? Are you creative and able to build engaging presentations? If so, we may have the ideal opportunity for you. We are looking for the right candidate to join our Stay Safe Team to support the delivery of prevention education to children and young people across Lincolnshire, for the next academic year.

About The Role

The Stay Safe Officer will support the delivery of prevention messages to students from Foundation to Key Stage 5 across Lincolnshire. They will deliver online safety and healthy relationship workshops as part of the Stay Safe Partnership.

As the role requires travel across the county delivering training in Lincolnshire education provisions, a full clean driver’s licence is an essential requirement of the role. Work mileage will be paid.
About You

Given the nature of the role, we are particularly keen to receive applications from individuals who are:

enthusiastic about having a positive impact on the lives of children and young people within our county
good at building relationships and establishing an instant rapport with others
enjoy working as part of a team
able to build bespoke engaging education packages with a creative flair
happy to present to groups and enjoy working with multiple agencies
confident in sharing ideas
good at timekeeping and have excellent organisational skills with a flexible approach
professional, keen to promote the teams objectives and passionate about working in safeguarding

A full person specification is available within the Job Description, attached on the LCC Job Site

About The Team

The successful applicant will sit under the Stay Safe Team, the educational arm of LCC's Community Safety department.

The Stay Safe Team have worked to provide preventative education in schools across Lincolnshire since 2015. The growing team is innovative and creative with aspirations of reaching more children and young people with safety messages. The team deliver evidence based prevention based on Lincolnshire needs. All secondary provisions are provided with 2 free Stay Safe Day's covering key education messages such as Substance Misuse, Domestic Abuse, Anti-Social Behaviour, County Lines, Online Safety, Road and Fire Safety are part of the Stay Safe education.

Included in the Stay Safe days are partners from Lincolnshire Police, Lincolnshire Domestic Abuse Partnership, Horizon (Substance Misuse Service), Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership, Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue and Lincolnshire County Council.

Stay Safe Days are being consistently delivered to over 90% of secondary schools in the county; we provide Healthy Relationships and Online Safety workshops within primary schools also. Last year our team spoke to 44,000 students aged 5-18.

Alongside these core areas of our work we currently provide targeted sessions to schools that require reactive intervention and produce online preventative videos and materials for EYFS, primary, secondary, SEND and parents.

Please be advised that this position may be subject to a criminal record check.

All candidates are advised to read the attached job information pack prior to making an application.

On occasion we receive significantly more applications than expected for some vacancies and under such circumstances we reserve the right to bring forward the closing date of the advertisement. We therefore strongly advise you to apply for the role promptly to avoid disappointment should the closing date be brought forward. 

We operate a talent pool scheme whereby candidates who are not successful on this occasion may be considered for a period of up to 3 months for equal positions.

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

A Smarter Working Employer

We have embraced new ways of working and hybrid working will be a feature of this role. You will be given a nominated contractual work base and you will be required to commute to this work base when necessary.  Working arrangements regarding hybrid working will be discussed as part of the appointment process.

Our technology platform and equipment is very good enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We require that you have in place good connectivity, and we will discuss during the recruitment process if support with this is needed.

Fluency Duty 

In accordance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 (Fluency Duty), the ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.