Senior Development Officer (Safeguarding and Governance)

The Senior Development Officer is a key role in providing support to organisations across the VCSE sector and linked to the Family Hub Network. You will be a point of contact and will meet them face to face, out in the community, in The Bolton Hub and online.

You will aim to keep the identification, engagement and support of those families who are vulnerable and seldom heard, and less likely to engage in the Family Hubs model, in the forefront of your practice.

You will ensure that VCSE sector organisations are aware of the ways in which parents can be supported through Family Hubs and promote key messages to families.

Alongside Bolton Together, the children and young people’s VCSE Sector consortium for Bolton and who commission much of the VCSE sector delivery within the Family Hubs, you will proactively develop plans around engaging the community to inform future developments of the Family Hubs offer. 

You will work with VCSE sector organisations to develop their volunteer offer and strengthen their policies and practices around recruiting, managing and safely retaining volunteers. 

You will work across the Family Hubs network, focusing on peer-to-peer support and parental and/or care-related volunteering, when appropriate. 

You will support the wider Family Hubs team to create a training menu for all those connected to Family Hubs, including peer volunteers, to enhance skills levels. The training offer will focus on ensuring key messages at the heart of Family Hubs work (such as the Golden Rules of Communication) are consistently shared and embedded by all within the Family Hubs community.

You will work with partners and stakeholders to strengthen systems for robust safeguarding. This will include ensuring that the safeguarding training, policies and procedures within Bolton CVS, and those recommended to VCSE sector organisations and groups, are in line with best practice and current legislation.

You will work in partnership with Bolton Council to ensure that the Bolton Mark is suitable for organisations working within Family Hubs, with particular emphasis on provision for 0–2-year-olds.