LADO Education Safeguarding Advisor
Kent County CouncilAshford, South East
Overview
This is a local council role (full time) with Kent County Council based in Ashford. The advertised salary is £55,764 to £62,535 per year. Applications close on 13 September 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
What will you be doing?
Kent County Council is seeking a passionate and experienced safeguarding professional to join our dynamic LADO Education and Safeguarding Advisory Service. As a LADO and Education Safeguarding Advisor (LEA), you will play a vital role in protecting children and young people across Kent by leading on the management of allegations against professionals and supporting safeguarding excellence in schools, early years settings, and other settings for children.
This is a pivotal role that combines statutory responsibility with strategic influence. You will:
- Be part of a team working in the LADO function for managing allegations about those in the children’s workforce. You will manage a complex caseload of wide ranging matters from a variety of settings.
- Provide expert safeguarding advice, training, safeguarding reviews and oversight to schools and education services.
- Deliver training for Designated Safeguarding Leads and contribute to Kent’s traded services offer by delivering a wide range of training courses and promoting LESAS's quality products e.g. online safety reviews.
- Contribute to quality assurance, audits, and the development of safeguarding frameworks across Kent.
- Represent the Safeguarding Unit in multi-agency forums, Quality Assurance Frameworks and child outcome analysis initiatives.
- A qualified social worker registered with Social Work England.
- Experienced in safeguarding and child protection within education or children’s services.
- Confident in managing complex safeguarding concerns and allegations.
- Skilled in delivering training, consultation, and quality assurance activities.
- A strong communicator with the ability to influence, challenge, and build trust across multi-agency partnerships.
- Committed to professional development and reflective practice.
- A supportive and collaborative team environment.
- Opportunities to shape safeguarding practice across Kent.
- Access to high-quality training and continuous professional development.
- Flexible working arrangements and a strong commitment to staff wellbeing.
This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.
This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring service and registration as a qualified Social Worker with Social Work England.
This role is subject to holding a Full UK Driving Licence – The Council is committed to making reasonable adjustments so whilst this job requires the jobholder to drive your application will still be considered if you are unable to drive due to a disability.
Susannah Burden, LADO & Education Safeguarding Manager, LESAS.
susannah.burden@kent.gov.uk
+44 300 041 9210
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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.
Please note - if you are interested, please apply soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.
How this role compares
We hold 194 council vacancies in South East that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £34,660. This role pays more than about 92% of them.
There are 4,945 council roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 332 of them in South East.
You have 14 days left to apply. Council adverts we hold typically run for around 26 days, so this is about the usual amount of time.
Kent County Council has 77 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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