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The group offers a range of excellent benefits, including:

Annual leave:
Curriculum and Management: 44 days plus bank holidays
Curriculum support and business support: 39 days plus bank holidays

Pension schemes with generous employer contributions:
Teachers’ Pension Scheme
Local Government Pension Scheme
People’s Pension Scheme

CPD opportunities:
Annual staff conference plus 2 additional staff development days.
Qualifications including PGCE, Apprenticeships, Leadership and Management courses.

Employee wellbeing initiatives: Family Friendly Policies, discounted onsite spa (Printworks) and gym (Park Lane).

Travel and commuting: Discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.

Flexible and hybrid working opportunities: Please speak to the recruiting manager regarding flexible opportunities as these differ between roles.

Are you passionate about creating safe, inclusive, and innovative learning environments? Luminate Education Group is looking for a dedicated Safeguarding Learning and Development Coordinator to inspire and drive a culture of continuous improvement in safeguarding practice across our organisation.

In this pivotal role, you will work collaboratively with the Head of Safeguarding and the Safeguarding Learning and Development Officer to lead the design, coordination, and delivery of engaging, evidence-informed safeguarding training for staff. You will use data, evaluation, and feedback to shape targeted interventions, ensuring our staff and students are equipped to respond effectively to emerging risks.

• Program Leadership: Lead the development, coordination, and continuous improvement of the organisation's safeguarding learning and development programme, encompassing face-to-face, digital, and blended learning.

• People Management: Provide direct line management, coaching, and professional development support to the Safeguarding Learning and Development Officer.

• Collaborative Co-Production: Partner with students, staff, and specialist external agencies to co-produce accessible training, digital learning resources, and safeguarding guidance.

• Data & Insight: Analyse quality assurance data and safeguarding trends to identify knowledge gaps, shaping targeted responses particularly for marginalised and underrepresented groups.

• Cross-Organisational Partnership: Collaborate with the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities team, Apprenticeships teams, and preventative education leaders to strengthen safeguarding frameworks and resource delivery.

• Income & Networking: Help develop, promote, and deliver an external safeguarding training and consultancy offer to generate income and build strong professional networks.

• Reporting & Compliance: Prepare and present quarterly reports to leadership and governors, using data to show training impact and recommend evidence-based improvements.

To be successful in this role, you will bring expertise, passion, and a deep commitment to improving safeguarding practices through impactful and inclusive resource and training development. We are looking for someone who is:

• You bring significant experience in designing, coordinating, delivering, and evaluating learning and development programmes across face-to-face, digital, and blended formats, with clear evidence of measuring training impact and driving continuous improvement.
  

• Safeguarding Expert: You have extensive knowledge and understanding of current safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance within education, including a strong awareness of emerging risks affecting children, young people, and adults.

• An Organised Project Manager: You possess excellent organisational and project management skills, with a proven ability to manage competing priorities, coordinate multiple workstreams, and consistently deliver high-quality outcomes to agreed deadlines

• An Effective Influencer: You are skilled at influencing, engaging, and supporting colleagues at all levels to successfully implement change and improve outcomes for vulnerable groups.

• A Collaborative Partner: You have experience building strong partnerships and working closely with internal and external stakeholders to co-produce resources, drive service improvement, and achieve shared objectives.

• Values-Driven: You are deeply committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion and utilising relational practice approaches in your daily work.

Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training.

We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions - Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.

As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.

Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College, Keighley College, Leeds City College, Leeds Sixth Form College, Pudsey Sixth Form College, Leeds Conservatoire and University Centre Leeds.

SAFEGUARDING

At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in recruitment is key to our Group’s values. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that embraces equality, diversity and inclusion in all its forms, where every candidate is treated with fairness, respect, and equity.

Our recruitment processes are designed to ensure equal opportunities, remove bias, and promote a diverse talent pool. To find out more about what our commitment to EDI means to us please Click here to learn more about our EDI objectives.

RECRUITMENT AGENCIES

We do not accept unsolicited CV’s and applications from agencies and will not be liable for any fee in connection with a candidate that has been submitted speculatively through any agency that has not been expressly instructed for a particular vacancy as part of our Preferred Supplier List.