Senior Safeguarding and Wellbeing Officer

We are recruiting for the role of Senior Safeguarding and Wellbeing Officer. This is a full-time (1.0 FTE) 12-month maternity cover position. The Senior Safeguarding & Wellbeing Officer will lead the delivery and ongoing development of wellbeing support for young people aged 16-25, participating in our programmes. Working closely with Programme Leads in the Youth Participation Team, the role will respond to emerging needs and ongoing safeguarding or wellbeing concerns to enhance young people’s experience and enable their safe, meaningful participation at YoungMinds. The Senior Safeguarding & Wellbeing Officer will also play an active role in building and embedding an organisational safeguarding culture of care by supporting with the operational elements of safeguarding. This role will focus on three primary areas of work: Providing support and advocacy for young people with complex mental health, wellbeing and safeguarding needs to access statutory and community services. Delivery of a proactive wellbeing programme for young people on our programmes that focuses on radical care and connection. Supporting safeguarding and wellbeing practice across the organisation. This role requires strong anti-oppressive youth work experience and a confident understanding of the principles of inclusive and justice-led practice, as well as excellent communication skills with young people and young adults of different ages and learning styles. Critical to this role is building trusting relationships with young people across our programmes, in order to support young people to access community resources and take the active lead in their wellbeing and support. The post also requires strong knowledge of safeguarding practice, particularly in relation to safeguarding and planning of youth engagement activities/events and understanding wellbeing versus safeguarding thresholds.