Safeguarding and Welfare Advisor

This is a unique opportunity for someone who combines sound judgement with empathy, enjoys supporting colleagues and partners through complex situations, and is passionate about helping create cultures where people feel valued, supported and safe.

This is a partnership-led and strategic role where your work will help ensure that the environments, opportunities and partnerships that support people to be active are safe, inclusive and person-centred.

You’ll lead safeguarding and welfare across Together Active, providing expert advice, guidance and support to colleagues, partners and organisations. You’ll help build confidence, strengthen safeguarding practice and embed a culture of prevention, learning and continuous improvement across our work.

What makes this role particularly exciting is the opportunity to influence systems as well as organisations. You’ll work collaboratively with partners across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, supporting organisations to develop safer cultures, sharing learning and helping create positive experiences for everyone who engages with physical activity. Alongside this, you’ll represent Together Active within the Sport Welfare Officer Network, helping strengthen safeguarding and welfare standards across sport, movement and physical activity settings.

We’d absolutely love to hear from you if you bring:

• Strong safeguarding knowledge and professional judgement
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
• Experience supporting colleagues, organisations or partners to strengthen safeguarding practice
• Confidence communicating complex safeguarding and welfare issues with empathy and clarity
• A collaborative approach to working across organisations and sectors
• Passion for creating safe, inclusive and person-centred environments
• Curiosity, creativity and a commitment to continuous learning
• Enthusiasm for building confidence, sharing knowledge and influencing positive change