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Job Title: Inclusion Development Officer Starting Salary: £38,220 progressing to £41,771 per annum (pro rata for part time)This is a term time only role.&nbsp; Working weeks per year for this role is 41 therefore, the above-mentioned salary will be calculated on a pro rata basis.Hours: 37.0 Location: Watford Contract Type: Permanent Directorate: Childrens Services<h4>About the team</h4>We are seeking a dedicated and knowledgeable Early Years Inclusion and Development Officer’s to join our dynamic Early Years SEND Service. The location is as follows:<ul><li>Watford / Three Rivers and Hertsmere</li></ul>Our team ensures the educational and developmental progress of children (0-7), with a range of SEN/D and additional needs, is met in line with the Hertfordshire Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Strategy and HCC strategic objectives.<h4>About the role</h4>The Inclusion and Development Officer (IDO) role sits within the Early Years SEND team and primarily focuses on promoting inclusive practice within pre-schools. The role provides systemic advice, support, and training to private, voluntary, and independent (PVI) early years’ settings.A willingness to deliver early years training and support flexibly on occasions is desirable (evenings/out of term time).<h4>About you</h4>Essential:<ul><li>Hold a relevant qualification in Early Years, Education, or SEND (ideally Level 6), or demonstrate extensive equivalent experience.</li><li>Recent hands-on experience in an Early Years setting supporting children with SEND, including delivering interventions in roles such as, SENCo, teacher, manager, or advisor.</li><li>A strong commitment to helping children and families achieve the best possible outcomes.</li><li>A confident and knowledgeable practitioner who can offer sound advice, ask the right questions, and support others with empathy and professionalism.</li><li>A team player who thrives in multi-agency environments and can navigate sensitive conversations with compassion and clarity.</li><li>Ability to work flexibly, manage your own dairy and travel across a wide geographical area.</li><li>Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle</li><li>Good level of written and ICT skills</li></ul>Desirable:<ul><li>Experience designing and delivering training or workshops in Early Years settings.</li><li>Comfortable leading professional development sessions, with support provided during induction.</li><li>Further relevant qualifications in SEND/ Inclusion</li></ul>We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.This job role is within the Health and Social Care Services, level HSC10 job profile. Please locate this via:Job profiles - Health and social careTo hear more about this opportunity please contact Debbi Watson (<a href="mailto:debbi.watson@hertfordshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">debbi.watson@hertfordshire.gov.uk</a>) for an informal discussion about the role.Interview Date: 15th December 2025Benefits of working for us<h4>How to apply</h4>As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences. <h4>Additional information</h4>Disability Confident We are proud to be a&nbsp;Disability Confident employer&nbsp;and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.Safeguarding This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure &amp; Barring Service (DBS) check.Driving required You’ll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.English Fluency The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required).&nbsp;Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.





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Hertfordshire County Council

Inclusion Development Officer

Job Title: Child Protection School Liaison Officer Starting Salary: £48,226 progressing to £53,460 per annum (pro rata for part time) Hours: 22.2 Location: Countywide Contract Type:&nbsp;Permanent Directorate: Childrens Services<h4>About the team</h4>The Child Protection School Liaison Officers (CPSLOs) are part of the Quality Assurance, Improvement and Practice Service, managed by the Service Manager for Child Protection.The role of the service is to act as the interface between the Local Authority and Education settings to provide advice, guidance, training and consultation to support senior leaders and designated safeguarding leads to ensure safeguarding practice within their settings is effective and contributes to keeping children safe from harm, abuse, neglect and exploitation.The service also has quality assurance functions to assist school leaders, governance, HSCP and regulatory bodies in understanding and gaining reassurance about the quality of practice within education settings in accordance with schools/colleges’ responsibilities outlined in statutory guidance and local child protection procedures.The service is available to support all schools/colleges in Hertfordshire (e.g. maintained, academy, free and independent, PRU, ESC). This also includes nurseries that are attached to and are part of a school setting.<h4>About the role</h4>The successful applicant will be required to:<ul><li>Provide safeguarding training to whole school staff groups and specialist packages for new and experienced Designated Safeguarding Leads. The role is a key team member in developing training content to strengthen safeguarding in education in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education and HSCP’s local priorities and procedures.</li><li>Provide bespoke safeguarding training for agencies who work with children within educational settings to ensure compliance with their responsibilities in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education.</li><li>Provide safeguarding supervision to Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs) individually or as teams, facilitating reflection on their practice to strengthen their personal and professional confidence in their role.</li><li>Provide professional advice through the operation of a dedicated advice line for DSLs when they have concerns about a child/ren and are unsure of the appropriate threshold or pathway to seek support or make a referral to statutory agencies.</li><li>Provide model child protection policy and other guidance templates to education settings.</li><li>Provide a model template for schools to account for how they effectively self-evaluate their safeguarding activities in line with their core Leadership and Management responsibilities as outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education.</li><li>Provide templates for Risk Assessment Management Plans (RAMP) and Safety and Support Plans (S&amp;SP) which provide education settings with a framework to assess and review information and safety measures for specific children.</li><li>Act as the conduit between schools/colleges and Multiagency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) process for children and families experiencing domestic abuse and in need of safety planning.</li><li>Attend Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) meetings where appropriate when an allegation has been made against a member of staff/volunteer within a school setting.</li><li>Develop a series of templates that support and guide education settings to quality assure the standards for their safeguarding policies and procedures are in accordance with statutory guidance.</li><li>Carry our quality assurance activity as requested by Ofsted, Department for Education or Independent Schools Inspectorate.</li><li>Support schools when they are contributing to a Local Safeguarding Children Practice Review or Learning Event being undertaken by HSCP in line with its statutory obligations to assess and review practice when a child/ren has suffered harm and/or death and there are concerns about multiagency practice and procedures.</li></ul><h4>About you</h4>Essential:<ul><li>A relevant qualification and/or relevant professional experience in safeguarding is required. You will have proven experience and commitment to your own continuous professional development and development of best practice.</li><li>A robust and sound knowledge of legislation and practice in relation to safeguarding children is essential for this post, for example Keeping Children Safe in Education, Working Together to Safeguard Children and The Children Act.</li><li>Significant experience in safeguarding children and working with families. You must have experience of leading safeguarding and child protection work, including direct work and decision making with children and families but also in leading or being accountable for the safeguarding of a whole team or setting.</li><li>Demonstrative experience of safeguarding children, excellent skills and knowledge in recognising and responding to risk to children and an ability to facilitate discussions to provide support and guidance around local thresholds for support and intervention.</li><li>Must be an effective communicator, whether in meetings, on the phone or in a training environment. You must demonstrate skills in translating formal and statutory information into numerous medias to assist professionals in education to implement and embed effective safeguarding practice within their settings and within their multiagency working around children.</li><li>Excellent communication skills and able to evidence your ability to critically analyse and challenge practice of individual professionals but also wider systems such as safeguarding cultures within education settings or multiagency procedures related to specific safeguarding themes.</li><li>The ability to prioritise your workload to meet deadlines is essential, as is a good working knowledge of ICT.</li><li>Driving licence and access to a vehicle.</li></ul> Desirable:<ul><li>A social work qualification is desirable alongside experience of working in a Local Authority social work team for children and families and/or evidence or experience of working with or in safeguarding in education roles.</li><li>Experienced trainer.</li><li>Experience in providing supervision or holding a lead role in performance/practice development of teams or individuals.</li></ul>We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.This is a rare opportunity to take up a role in this growing service, that holds a key position to supporting designated safeguarding leads in education with the complex navigation of safeguarding practice but also raising the profile of the hard work and commitment shown by schools to support their children and families, represent their voices, expertise and views on how multiagency safeguarding practice can be shaped to support children and families in Hertfordshire. As Hertfordshire embed the national reforms to social care it is also an exciting time to join the service and contribute to supporting designated safeguarding leads through a period of change and development to strengthen safeguarding multiagency practice and collaboration between key players of change.The service manager responsible for the CPSLO service holds a membership role in HSCP panel meetings where feedback and information from a safeguarding in education perspective contributes to multiagency discussions and decision making. The role will therefore provide opportunity to contribute to systemic learning and policy development, supporting the commitment of HSCP to embed education into its safeguarding partnership arrangements.This job role is within the Health and Social Care Services, level HSC12 job profile. Please locate this via:Job profiles - Health and social careTo hear more about this opportunity please contact Kassiane Papageorgiou (<a href="mailto:kassiane.papageorgiou@hertfordshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">kassiane.papageorgiou@hertfordshire.gov.uk</a>)Interview Date: TBCBenefits of working for us<h4>How to apply</h4>As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences. <h4>Additional information</h4>Disability Confident We are proud to be a&nbsp;Disability Confident employer&nbsp;and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.Safeguarding This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure &amp; Barring Service (DBS) check.Driving required You’ll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.English Fluency The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required).&nbsp;Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.





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Child Protection School Liaison Officer

Job Title: Residential Childcare Workers Starting Salary: £31,537 progressing to £34,434 per annum plus 6% market enhancement* *Sleep In allowances are paid at £40 per night. There are opportunities to work additional hours and overtime across the Service. Hours: 37.0 Contract Type: Permanent <h4>About the team</h4>Hertfordshire County Council believes in keeping young people close, to enable them to maintain their identity, and to maintain links with the community to which they belong, this in turn allows us to support these young people, their families, and friends.We understand the impact of trauma on children and are passionate about helping these young people find their strengths and explore what they want to achieve with their lives. We believe in nurturing positive relationships and are wholly dedicated to never giving up on a child.<h4>About the role</h4>Below are some of the things you could say about your role on a day-to-day basis working in our Residential Care homes:“It’s the best job in the World” “The work life balance is brilliant” “I am at home more than I am at work – both families benefit” “’Thanks for running me a bath’ – is what made me smile today – win/win”.If you really want to make a difference to a young person’s life then read on……It is hard to put a job title on a role where you are mentor, teacher, coach, deliverer of parental guidance, role model, therapist, councillor, and family liaison, often all in the same day.Daily you will be liaising with a host of individuals and services, from our young person’s family to schools and education authorities, social workers, police and a whole range of other internal and external contacts.The essence of the role is to support, almost as an extension of the family, one young person to help them develop into adulthood as effectively as possible, establishing routine, boundaries and consistency in a calm, non-judgemental manner. You will work with children and young people who display challenging behaviour due to early life trauma.No two days are the same in our Residential Service - on your working days you could be taking your young person horse riding, painting, for a drive, for a walk, out shopping, or attending virtual schools. You will support children to achieve and grow through positive experiences.“You are there when I rise, when I eat, when I play, and you are there to put me to bed at the end of my day”.Our commitment to young people in our care is to be there around the clock for them. As part of your role you will complete relevant paperwork and work within relevant legislation.You will be part of a team working on a shift/rota basis; you will work together with the rest of the team, and your senior, to organise this in advance.&nbsp;&nbsp; Due to the nature of our care, there may be occasions where you need to swap shifts and working together with your team we can achieve this flexibility.<h4>About you</h4>Essential:<ul><li>Full UK Driving Licence (including business insurance) and regular access to a car.</li><li>Passion for working with children.</li><li>Ability to learn and implement training.</li><li>Flexible and innovative to meet the challenge.</li><li>Willing to work shifts, including evening/ weekend/ bank holidays and sleeping duties.</li></ul> Desirable:<ul><li>Hold Diploma level 3/ 4 Health and social care.</li><li>Experience of working with children or caring for children and young people</li></ul>We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.This job role is within the&nbsp;Health and Social Care, level &nbsp;job profile. Please locate this via:&nbsp;Job profiles - Health and social careFor an informal discussion and more information please contact: Sabika Sabeen&nbsp;<a href="mailto:Sabika.Sabeen@hertfordshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">Sabika.Sabeen@hertfordshire.gov.uk</a>&nbsp;- 07515 663033.Benefits of working for us<h4>How to apply</h4>As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences. <h4>Additional information</h4>Sponsorship:&nbsp;We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.Disability Confident We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.Safeguarding This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure &amp; Barring Service (DBS) check.Driving required You’ll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.English Fluency The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.





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