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About the Role
Promote, embed, and deliver a safe and inclusive culture within Men's Football, focusing on Youth Academy sites. Support the development, implementation, and review of safeguarding systems to protect children and young people. Act as deputy to the Head of Safeguarding, overseeing compliance, delivering training, and mitigating risks.
Responsibilities
- Act as the lead safeguarding contact for Men’s Football and the Academy, providing expert advice and guidance.
- Represent Safeguarding within the Academy Leadership structure, shaping safeguarding priorities and player welfare initiatives.
- Lead on safeguarding investigations, managing concerns and working with external agencies.
- Deliver safeguarding education and training programmes for various stakeholders.
- Provide safeguarding leadership for Academy tours and trips, including risk assessments.
- Manage safeguarding compliance and audit activity, ensuring adherence to standards.
- Deputise for the Head of Safeguarding and drive strategic projects, including policy development.
- Support safer recruitment and safeguarding risk management across the club.
- Uphold high standards of conduct to prevent abuse and keep updated with safeguarding training.
Requirements
- Professional qualification in Safeguarding.
- Best-in-class emotional intelligence, empathy, self-awareness, and conflict resolution skills.
- Creative and solutions-focused thinker with a proactive and innovative approach.
- Excellent relationship-building skills with children, young people, adults at risk, and their families.
- Trusted safeguarding practitioner with significant experience in managing concerns and investigations.
- Exceptional communicator and influencer, able to convey complex information clearly.
- Proven stakeholder management skills with senior representatives from statutory agencies.
- Analytical and operational mindset, experienced in training delivery, policy implementation, and data analysis.
- Must complete a DBS check and other essential background checks.
- Must uphold high standards of conduct to prevent abuse.
Skills
- Safeguarding
- Emotional intelligence
- Relationship building
- Communication
- Stakeholder management
- Training delivery
- Risk assessment
- Investigation
- Policy implementation
- Data analysis
Location
- Hale End
- Sobha Realty Training Centre
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
- Significant experience managing safeguarding concerns, investigations, referrals and escalations
- Experienced in designing and delivering safeguarding training, implementing policies and procedures, analysing safeguarding data, producing reports and case documentation
Education Level
- Professional qualification in Safeguarding
Benefits
- Exciting reward and recognition scheme
- Generous holiday allowance which increases with length of service
- Great internal learning and development programmes
- Priority access to apply for match tickets
- Competitive health and wellbeing benefits package
- Leading Employee Assistance Programme
- Great discounts with some of our Partners
- Opportunity to play a vital role in delivering ED&I strategy by joining Employee Networks
About the Company
- One of the most famous clubs in world football, with a rich heritage and history of success.
- Passionate about our local community.
- Defined purpose: to act for a winning team, culture and community.
- Values: courageous in the pursuit of progress, champion community and each other, do the right thing.
- Committed to ensuring environments for children, young people and adults at risk remain safe and inclusive.
Equal Opportunity
- Arsenal for Everyone is our commitment to promoting and embracing equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Believe that diversity of background, skills and experience drives success.
- Disability Confident Leader.
- Actively welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities and long-term health conditions.
- If you need disability-related adjustments to the recruitment process, please indicate this in your application.
- Eligible to apply for an interview via the Disability Confident Scheme if likely to meet the definition of 'disabled person' according to the Equality Act 2010.