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Job summary

Main area
Safeguarding and Public Protection
Grade
Band 3
Contract
11 months (to cover a secondment)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
110-AC158-0625
Employer
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
Bridgend /Pontypridd MASH / YMH
Town
Bridgend
Salary
£24,433 - £26,060 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
29/06/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board logo

Administration Support Officer for Safeguarding & Public Protection

Band 3

We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000.  We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.

Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.

We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed

Job overview

THIS POST IS A SECONDMENT FOR 11 MONTHS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE SERVICE.

We have a fantastic opportunity at Cwm Taf Morgannwg for an Administration Support Officer for Safeguarding & Public Protection.  The successful candidate will provide administration duties to the MASH (Multiagency Safeguarding Hub) and Corporate Safeguarding Team

We are seeking a highly motivated person, with excellent organisational and communication skills to join our small team.   The post holder must be able to work in a challenging environment and have a sensitive, caring and non-judgmental attitude.

The post holder will work within a specific team however, will need the flexibility to work across the service as the need arises.

The successful candidate ideally should have previous experience of working within a multiagency setting.

Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This means Speaking & Listening at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2). We don’t need fluency. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. For more information, see the ‘Croeso Candidate’ booklet below.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work to standard operating procedures to provide a comprehensive, professional and effective administrative support to the Safeguarding & Public Protection Team.

They will provide the administration function for the Safeguarding & Public Protection team and maintain the database activity, ensuring the information is readily updated to reflect a true position of all Safeguarding applications.

The post holder is expected to work flexibly across CTMUHB and to support the Team and to assist other colleagues from within the Safeguarding and Public Protection Team when required.

Working for our organisation

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family.  Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

  • We listen, learn and improve
  • We treat everyone with respect
  • We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.

At Cwm Taf Morgannwg providing great health care to our community is our number one priority. Our 65 – 84 and 85+ age groups are projected to have the largest increase by 2036, when an estimated one in four people in Wales will be aged 65 and over. These projections will have significant implications for the way in which we design and provide our increasingly integrated health and social care services, so that we can help the people living in our communities to live long and healthy lives, free from the limiting effects of multiple chronic conditions.

At Cwm Taf Morgannwg we believe in innovation to make improvements to clinical care. We are especially proud of our Academic Centre in Merthyr Tydfil, which is helping to train future doctors in community medicine.

Person specification

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Experience in Administration
Desirable criteria
  • Level 3 or above Speaking/Listening in Welsh

Multiagency Working

Essential criteria
  • Safeguarding Knowledge
Desirable criteria
  • Previous Social Care

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Age positiveDisability confident leaderStop Smoking Wales is the NHS Smoking Cessation Service in WalesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.hyderus o ran anableddAccredited Living Wage EmployerWelsh logo for Armed Force Bronze Award for Cym Taf UHBAccredited Living Wage EmployerCore principlesPrentisiaethau Apprenticeships

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Welsh language skills are desirable

Documents to download

Apply online now

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Louise Hallett
Job title
Business Manager for Safeguarding
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07896085089
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