Compliance Officer - Leeds
- Leeds
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Ensuring compliance with legislation, Government guidance, professional standards, best practice and auditing bodies.
- Promoting safer recruitment – which not only protects the company but safeguards children and adults at risk.
- Ensuring compliance with all legislation, sector changes and company policies/procedures, as implemented by Head of Compliance & Safeguarding.
- Candidate documentation, safeguarding and vetting checks in line with safer recruitment, professional standards, statutory guidance, government legislation, framework/client contracts and company procedures. This includes:
- Acquiring and checking all required original documentation
- Right to Work checks
- Identity checks
- Enhanced DBS checks
- Overseas police checks, where applicable
- Employment history checks
- Reference checks
- Qualification and prohibition checks
- Up to date training
- Obtaining placement feedback
- Chasing candidates and consultants for outstanding documentation.
- Answering any questions from consultants – with a continued focus on raising the general level of safeguarding and compliance knowledge across all teams.
- Highlighting or escalating areas of concern including those that may pose a safeguarding risk.
- Liaison with professional bodies, Local Authorities and clients where applicable.
- Data input and database maintenance.
- Self-motivated
- Proactive
- Willing to go above and beyond
- Committed to safeguarding
- A team player
- Professional
- Enthusiastic
- Personable, confident and able to build relationships
- Excellent time management
- Meticulous
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Experience working within the Education compliance sector desirable however not essential.
- Safeguarding trained desirable however not essential.
- Excellent knowledge of IT software (for example – word, excel) and CRM systems if applicable.