The Diocese of Chester is seeking to recruit an experienced administrator to support the Safeguarding Service Delivery Manager in the delivery of training, safeguarding dashboard delivery and developing Parish Safeguarding Officers support network.

The successful candidate will have proven administrative competence, excellent interpersonal and organisational skills. They will be able to work independently in handling a diverse workload and in keeping to deadlines.

You will be based at Church House, Daresbury Business Park, Daresbury WA4 4GE with the option to work up to 40% at home.

PLEASE NOTE: Applications should be made via the Diocesan website using the diocesan application form, not through Pathways.

The job description, person specification and application form can be downloaded from the Diocesan website: https://www.chester.anglican.org/support-services/job-vacancies/other-vacancies/

Completed application forms should be returned to Mrs E A Geddes, Diocesan Director of Human Resources, preferably by email to liz.geddes@chester.anglican.org or by post to Church House, 5500 Daresbury Park, Warrington, WA4 4GE.

Closing date: Wednesday 22^nd November 2023

Interviews: Thursday 7^th December 2023

Job Title: Safeguarding Administrator – Service Delivery

Hours of Work: Full-time, 35 hours per week, including some evenings and weekends.

Reporting to: Diocesan Safeguarding Adviser

Normal Place of Work: Church House, Daresbury Park, Warrington, WA4 4GE with up to 40% hybrid working. Some travel around the diocese will be needed.

Remuneration: £24,780 - £25,415, depending upon skills and experience

Job profile

The role supports the Safeguarding Service Delivery Manager in the delivery of training, safeguarding dashboard delivery and developing Parish Safeguarding Officers support network.

There will be a requirement to travel to support training events in the diocese.

These events may be at weekend or evenings.

Duties and key responsibilities:

General

1. To process correspondence arriving for the Safeguarding Team in a timely manner. To take action where necessary, producing draft replies, standard replies and holding letters as necessary
2. To use own initiative in generating communications to stakeholders following the agreed process for each
3. Respond to general parish support queries, signposting to relevant resources and documents.
4. To use own initiative in responding to telephone and e-mail enquiries – providing information, using judgement in directing calls and e-mails and ensuring that appropriate information is brought to the attention of the Safeguarding Team
5. To be responsible for any general administration duties within the Safeguarding Team
6. To ensure Records are maintained in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations

Training

1. Oversee the administration of safeguarding training, including the advertising of training events via the website and eBulletin, registering delegates for training, ensuring workbooks are completed and returned to the course trainer in a timely manner, and the issuing of certificates post-completion.
2. The preparation of training materials for training sessions.
3. Collaborate with Safeguarding Service Delivery Manager to oversee the maintenance of a calendar and schedule of clergy training certification.
4. Respond to requests from the Bishop’s Chaplain / Archdeacons office for clergy training information.
5. Maintain / update the Contact Management System (CMS) database for safeguarding training courses completed in the Diocese.
6. Collaborate with Communications Department and Safeguarding Team/ Safeguarding Service Delivery Manager to ensure the Diocesan Safeguarding web pages are up to date.
7. Provide guidance and support to clergy and church officers regarding their safeguarding training needs.
8. Respond to general parish support queries, signposting to relevant resources and documents.
9. Maintain responsibility for safe storage and hire / return of safeguarding external training delivery kit.
10. Support the delivery of training events and bespoke learning opportunities (including hospitality) in collaboration with the Safeguarding Team and Safeguarding Service Delivery Manager.

Dashboards

1. Delivery programme, ensuring that it is up to date and delivered according to agreed timescales.
2. Collaborate with Communications Department and Safeguarding Team/ Safeguarding Service Delivery Manager to ensure the Diocesan Dashboard delivery programme is communicated.
3. Provide guidance and support to clergy and church officers regarding dashboards.
4. Respond to general parish support queries regarding dashboards

Parish Safeguarding Officers (PSO) Networks

1. To assist the Safeguarding Team/ Safeguarding Service Delivery Manager in providing support to the Parish Safeguarding Officers.
2. Oversee the administration of PSO networks, including the advertising of events via the website and eBulletin and facilitating Support Group Network meetings as appropriate
3. Collaborate with the Diocese Office Manager to ensure the CMS Database of PSOs is maintained / updated.

October 2023

Note – this job description does not form part of your Contract of Employment.

The work of the Chester Diocesan Board of Finance (DBF) is operated from within Church House and is located at Daresbury Park, Warrington.

The DBF is the body which oversees the central financial and administrative work of the Diocese of Chester, provides support, teaching and trained personnel to advance the mission and ministry of the parishes within the Church of England Diocese of Chester, and the mission and ministries of the bishops of the Diocese.

The DBF is part of the Church of England, the established Church of the land, which proclaims Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, and aims to proclaim the Kingdom of God in an open way to all people, of all races, cultures and backgrounds.

For many posts within the Diocese those who are not members of the Church of England are welcome to apply. We respect their right to express different religious and philosophical opinions but require them, as employees of the Diocese, to respect our ethos as an Anglican Christian organisation and not to undermine it. These posts will require the post-holders to be in sympathy with the aims and objectives of the Church of England.

Some posts may include an Occupational Requirement for the post holder to be a practising Christian in accordance with the Equality Act, 2010. Where this applies the recruitment documentation will state this.

The Diocese of Chester is in the province of York in the Church of England, part of the global Anglican Communion. For more information about our life, ministry and work please visit our website www.chester.anglican.org We are linked with the Anglican Church of Melanesia in the Solomon Islands and the Dioceses of Aru and Boga in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Diocese covers an area of 1025 square miles, approximately the old Victorian County of Chester, including parts which subsequently became absorbed into Merseyside and Greater Manchester. The Rivers Mersey and Tame approximately delineate the boundary with Liverpool and Manchester. There are areas of dense urban population, mainly in the north, stretching from Birkenhead to East Manchester. There are prosperous suburban regions of West and South Wirral, Chester and south of Manchester, with a mainly rural heartland, bounded by the Derbyshire Pennines and the Welsh Border. The overall population is around 1.6 million.

The diocesan bishop is Mark Tanner. He is supported by two suffragan bishops: the Bishop of Birkenhead, Julie Conalty and the of Bishop of Stockport, Sam Corley.

The Cathedral for the Diocese is in Chester.

The Diocese is divided into two archdeaconries: Chester covering the western half and Macclesfield the eastern, each with nine deaneries. There are 273 parishes, about 100 of which can be described as rural. Compared with many dioceses, there are few teams, and few multi-parish benefices. There are approximately 231 stipendiary clergy. The ministry of Readers and Pastoral Workers is important, with over 400 licensed. The role of self-supporting ministers is increasing, with over 80 in post at present.

Roughly speaking, the Archdeaconry of Macclesfield covers that part of the diocese to the east of the M6, plus the area around Crewe and Nantwich. The Archdeaconry of Chester covers the rest of the diocese to the west of the M6. Each archdeaconry has a broad mix of urban and rural parishes. The Archdeacon of Chester lives in Chester, and the Archdeacon of Macclesfield lives in Congleton. Both now work from Church House, Daresbury.