Safeguarding investigator – job description template

Last updated: 01 Mar 2023 Topics: Case management

This template provides a sample job description for a safeguarding investigator role in the context of safeguarding children in sport.

A safeguarding investigator’s role is to conduct an investigation gathering and assessing available evidence and information following a decision made by a sport’s organisation that an investigation is required as part of its safeguarding and child protection case management process.

Contents

The template includes the following sections:

  • job purpose
  • knowledge
  • skills required
Download the template (PDF)

Further information

See our safer recruitment pages for help and advice on general processes and procedures relating to this topic.

For a comparison of the main child safeguarding roles at different levels of sport and in related organisations, see Key safeguarding roles and responsibilities.

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