25.125 Outreach Advisor - East Midlands

Disclosure & Barring Service

Hybrid

Expires: Expiring in less than 2 weeks

Community

Flexible

£34,791 - £36,874 per year

Job summary

The Partnerships Strategy and Impact Directorate incorporates core functions that are critical to achievement of the outcomes in the DBS Strategy 2025-28. The Partnerships Team sits within the Strategy and Impact Directorate.

The Partnerships Team serves four primary purposes: Regional Outreach & National Stakeholder Engagement, Senior Stakeholder Engagement, Partnership Development and External Events.

Regional Outreach Advisers play an active part in delivering the Regional Outreach programme of work, including engaging with under-represented groups, sectors and communities to raise the profile of DBS. You will be responsible for proactively developing and maintaining effective and purposeful relationships with a broad range of regionally focused stakeholders from grass roots through to regional organisations.

Ideally you will live in or around your region and have a good understanding of the communities within your region. You will have the ability to identify and overcome barriers, to build trust and develop DBS influence across the safeguarding and employment landscape working collaboratively with others to enable DBS to achieve its strategic aims and objectives.

You will actively listen to what our stakeholders, partners and customers are saying to ensure DBS takes their needs into consideration when developing products and services.

As a confident communicator, you will provide information to external stakeholders, in a way that suits their needs to improve their understanding of DBS products and processes.

As a Regional Outreach Adviser, you will work closely with your fellow Regional Outreach Advisers and the Regional Outreach Manager to ensure engagement activity is consistent, focused, and best practice is shared. You will support DBS colleagues to deliver their services effectively, removing barriers, delivering key messages, and facilitating collaboration and co-operation where needed.

As part of the wider Partnerships Team, you will provide support across the wider Partnerships portfolio, identifying regional and sector-based opportunities through your work and sharing them with Partnership colleagues.

You will provide relevant, concise, accurate reports on your activities to support individual and team contribution to the achievement of one or more strategic, business and team objectives.

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Job description

Do you want to be a part of a high performing dynamic team of engagement and outreach advisers?
Do you believe that safeguarding is important?
Do you want to help organisations make employment and recruitment safer for children and vulnerable people?
Would you enjoy the opportunity to develop professional relationships, share knowledge and improve understanding of DBS across different sectors and communities?

If you answer yes to these questions then this could be the role for you!

The DBS Regional Outreach Service are based across England, Wales and Northern Ireland and act as the single point of contact for organisations big and small.
We are passionate about improving safeguarding practices and promoting safe and fair recruitment by increasing awareness and understanding of DBS, what we do and how we can help make employment and recruitment safer.
We are the friendly face of DBS, supporting organisations from grass roots to the larger regional bodies to understand how to access DBS checks and when they should tell DBS about someone who may have harmed a child or vulnerable person.
We work closely with our colleagues in the wider Partnerships Team, get the opportunity to support national campaigns, develop resources such as videos and podcasts, and deliver at large events including the DBS Annual National Conference.

As a Regional Outreach Adviser you will work closely with your fellow Regional Outreach Advisers and the Regional Outreach Manager to ensure engagement activity is consistent, focused, and best practice is shared. You will support DBS colleagues to deliver their services effectively, removing barriers, delivering key messages and facilitating collaboration and co-operation where needed.

As part of the wider Partnerships Team you will provide support across the wider Partnerships portfolio, identifying national and sector-based opportunities through your work and sharing them with Partnership colleagues.You will provide relevant, concise, accurate reports on your activities to support individual and team contribution to the achievement of one or more strategic, business and team objectives

The post holder will:

· Promote DBS as a Safeguarding Organisation

· Be responsible for the implementation, development, and delivery the DBS Outreach nationally.

· Act as a single point of contact for all DBS related enquiries for organisations within your region, respond effectively to enquiries about DBS products and services

· Support DBS colleagues to deliver their services effectively by removing barriers to sharing information, delivering key DBS messages, and facilitating collaboration and co-operation with stakeholders

· Proactively identify opportunities for Regional stakeholder engagement and outreach, develop and deliver them in collaboration with stakeholders and colleagues

· Develop, deliver, and own stakeholder and partner engagement opportunities in collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders at a regional or sector-based level

· Support regional advisors by covering regional activity when required.

· Contribute to the evaluation of the Outreach Programme

· Produce relevant, concise, accurate monthly and ad hoc activity reports

· Maintain a high- level understanding of the safeguarding landscape locally and nationally, considering its relevance to DBS products and services.

· Present information to internal and external audiences, explaining complex processes

· Contribute to the development and maintenance of corporate engagement materials in collaboration with the Communications Team, colleagues and stakeholders.

· Support and contribute to the delivery of an external events programme to raise the profile and awareness of DBS and its products and services, build trust in DBS and increase its influence on the environment in which it operates.

· Be prepared to attend training and development courses on an ongoing basis to develop additional skills

· Supporting the delivery of the wider team goals by being an active member of the team.

Corporate Duties:

Supporting the Head of Partnerships in their role as a member of the Directorate Leadership Team (DLT).

Some travel (including overnight) will be required as part of this role.

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Person specification

Essential Criteria:

Ability to work under pressure in a changing environment, coping well with ambiguity and conflicting priorities, and managing multiple tasks/projects competently and efficiently, while maintaining high standards
Ability to share complex information in an accessible way
Ability to work autonomously or as part of a team
Ability to develop and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders
Persuasive, strong, and skilled communicator verbally and in writing.
Experience of working with and engaging diverse groups
Experience of developing and delivering events for a large organisation through multiple formats, eg online and in person.
Experience of problem solving and troubleshooting
Experience of working or volunteering in a safeguarding role or in an environment where safeguarding was a key consideration
Demonstrable ability to develop and deliver presentations to raise awareness and promote the role of an organisation or service.
Proficient and a good understanding of MS Teams and it’s functionality.

Desirable Criteria:

Experience of using stakeholder management tools or systems
An understanding of the legislation relevant to DBS.
Knowledge of the safeguarding and/or employment sector

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Communicating and Influencing
Working Together
Managing a Quality Service
Delivering at Pace

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £34,791, Disclosure & Barring Service contributes £10,078 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

The DBS offers a number of excellent benefits for its employees. These can include:

Generous annual leave entitlement
Excellent maternity, paternity and adoption schemes (after a qualifying period)
Commitment to the health and wellbeing of our employees
Employee Assistance Programme
Flexible working opportunities
Eyecare voucher scheme
Occupational Health Service including referrals for counselling and physiotherapy
24/7 Counselling and Wellbeing Service
A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

To apply for this post, please provide a CV together with a suitability statement of no more than 750 words, outlining how your skills, experience and qualifications meet the requirements of the role, including all essential and desirable criteria, and the key responsibilities.

As part of the recruitment process the Disclosure & Barring Service will conduct a sift exercise and interview process.

For all candidates who are successful at the initial sifting stage, you will be invited to a panel based interview that will assess 2 strengths and the following behaviours :

Communicating and Influencing
Working Together
Managing a Quality Service
Delivering at Pace

Candidates will also expected to deliver a 10 minute presentation which will assess the behaviour ‘Communicating and influencing’, the topic will be provided with your invitation to interview.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Salary range

£34,791 - £36,874 per year