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Job Detail: Senior Safeguarding Practitioner

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About The Role

  • Permanent full time role based in North Parramatta
  • Salary range from $92,000 - $101,200 + packaging + super
  • A pivotal leadership role, promoting a culture of safeguarding and best practice

About Northcott

Northcott is a not-for-profit disability service provider that works with customers to realise their potential. As a registered NDIS provider, we employ close to 2500 staff and provide personalised service to over 14000 people with disability, their families and carers each year.

About the role

As the Senior Safeguarding Practitioner, you will provide organisational leadership through promoting a culture of safeguarding and best practice in the prevention and response to abuse and neglect of our customers (both adults and children with disability).

Your objective will be to manage and support Northcott's Quality and Safeguarding obligations for the organisation, including legislated reporting requirements. Located in our Practice Hub, you will oversee a team who provide services including person-centred behaviour support, safeguarding and response, training, and sexuality and relationship education.

What we are looking for

  • Strong commitment to the rights of people with disability
  • Extensive demonstrated experience managing the response to abuse and neglect of vulnerable people, including the ability to conduct and lead critical investigations
  • Tertiary qualifications in a relevant professional field
  • Knowledge of legislation and reporting obligations regarding vulnerable adults and children
  • Demonstrated ability to promote best practice models of delivery across a variety of service types, including adherence to person-centred and strength based approaches
  • Initiative, flexibility, effective time management skills and the ability to manage competing priorities
  • NSW Working With Children Check
  • Police Check less than 6 months old, or willingness to obtain

In this role you will

  • Be part of, as well as mentor, the Safeguarding and Response team
  • Support the organisation in ensuring an appropriate and timely response to all concerns or allegations of any form of adult and child abuse or neglect
  • Conduct internal investigations and advise on the required course of action
  • Ensure provision of expert advice, reasoned recommendations and innovative solutions
  • Fulfil reporting obligations to the NSW Ombudsman and relevant external authorities

For a full list of duties, please see the position description below

What you get in return?

  • Work for a leading disability service provider who offers a family friendly workplace
  • Opportunities for learning and development - grow your career
  • A supportive and collaborative team
  • Employment benefits including salary packaging, service recognition, flu vax, corporate discounts with BUPA, NRMA, ComBank, Fitness Passport, EAP.

The closing date for this position is 9 May 2019

For a confidential discussion about this position please contact Jill Maginnity on 0409 293 826

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