The DSL ensures the safety of missing people and volunteers, embedding safeguarding into all operations. This vital role strengthens trust, supports team wellbeing, ensures compliance with safeguarding requirements.
LonSAR work has vulnerable missing people at its centre, and the team is seeking to recruit a Designated Safeguarding Lead (“DSL”) and Designated Deputy Safeguarding Lead (“DDSL”) to ensure that any safeguarding incidents involving either missing people, team members or people we encounter in the course of a search are properly recorded and that our safeguarding procedures reflect current legislative requirements. Relevant professional experience is highly desirable.
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The DSL and their Deputies will play a vital role at the heart of LonSAR's mission to help end preventable loss of life in London. Safeguarding is central to our work — not just in protecting the vulnerable missing people we search for, but in ensuring the safety, wellbeing and trust of our volunteers, our partners, and the public we serve.
By embedding best safeguarding practice into every aspect of our operations, this role will:
As LonSAR continues to grow, this role will be fundamental in helping us stay true to our values: empathetic, professional, determined and innovative.
