Adult Protection Lead Officer

Job Description

The Adult Protection Lead Officer is a multi-agency strategic role providing support to the East Ayrshire Adult Protection Committee (APC) and its sub-groups, leading on the APC’s Strategic Delivery Plan. The post is hosted within the integrated Protection & Learning Team within East Ayrshire Health & Social Care Partnership and leads a small team.

East Ayrshire’s Adult Protection Committee is a dynamic, improvement focused public protection forum with a committed set of multi-agency partners and the role benefits significantly from the mature integrated relationships locally.

The role is central in supporting local public protection Learning Reviews and the associated learning and improvement actions. Additionally, East Ayrshire has a multi-agency quality assurance framework for public protection which this role supports through the coordination and delivery of an annual self-evaluation.

This is a role with plenty of opportunities to promote and support the prevention of harm across East Ayrshire, therefore communication and relationship building across a wide range of organisations and partnerships is a central part of the job.

Requirements

The duties of the post involve Regulated Work with children and/or protected adults, as specified in the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. Successful applicants for such posts will be required to become a Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme member in respect of Regulated Work with either or both of these groups as appropriate, or if they are already a Scheme member, be subject to a PVG Scheme Record Update, before any formal offer of employment can be made by East Ayrshire Council.

Please note:- PVG members' records are constantly updated with any new vetting information that arises. Any information that is disclosed on a PVG Scheme Record or Scheme Record Update, if relevant to the post being applied for, will be discussed with the applicant prior to any formal offer of employment being made.

 

Employment References

We follow the national guidance in relation to pre-employment checks namely “Safer Recruitment Through Better Recruitment”. With regards to requests for references and in line with this guidance, during your application process you should provide details of a minimum of two appropriate and relevant references, one of which should be from your current or most recent employer. It is also a requirement that the reference from your current or most recent employer is from an appropriate senior manager and it is not a reference from a former peer operating at the same level.

 

Additional Information

This is a full time permanent post based within the Protection Team.

Hours of work - Mon-Thur 9am-5pm, Fri 9am-4pm

Annual Salary - £46,192 - £50,505

The workstyle for this post is ‘Flexible’ - 50% -79% of your time in an office location/ multiple work locations.

You will work at your administrative base or another agreed office location between 2.5 to 4 days per week and only occasionally from home.

The admin base for this post is The Johnnie Walker Bond, Kilmarnock.

It is the expectation that all office-based employees (with the exception of those working in schools) will work to the higher end of their allocated workstyle in terms of time spent in the office or at other work locations.

If you require further information please contact Dale Meller at dale.meller@east-ayrshire.gov.uk or call 01563 554760.

Please note, previous applicants need not re-apply. 

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