Job Description
The Combined Counties League are looking for a person with safeguarding experience and appropriate training to take on the role of the League Welfare Officer.
The League Welfare Officer will be responsible for promoting safeguarding within the league and working with others to ensure a safe and inclusive environment is achieved.
The League Welfare Officer will be clear about the Leagues responsibilities when running activities involving young people and vulnerable adults. This involves ensuring these responsibilities are well understood by others, working in collaboration with others in the investigation of issues and working with County Welfare Officer’s and Club Welfare Officer’s when required.
The League Welfare Officer will also promote The FA’s Respect programme and helping to develop best practice. They will ensure that any relevant policies and procedures are in place and maintained. Attendance at appropriate FA training and seminars relating to Welfare issues is required.
This is a volunteer role which requires attendance at the league monthly management meeting, regular attendance at competition matches, attendance at any sub-committee meetings as assigned (normally via electronic conference) and must be available to act should a welfare issue be reported.
A full role specification and application form are available on request.
The Combined Counties Football League is a regional men's football league in south-eastern England with members in Berkshire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Jersey, Kent, Middlesex, Oxfordshire, Surrey, and the western half of Greater London, featuring a number of semi-professional clubs. The league is sponsored by Cherry Red Records.
The league consists now of 61 clubs in three divisions: Premier Division North, Premier Division South and Division One. The league also has teams competing in an Under-23 Development Division and Under-18 teams split across North and South divisions.
The Premier Divisions North and South are two of sixteen recognised leagues to form the ninth level of the English football league system (known as Step 5 of the National League System), and Division One is one of seventeen recognised leagues at level 10 (known as Step 6 of the National League System). The Combined Counties Football League is a feeder to the Isthmian League and the Southern League.
The league is a non-profit making organisation operated by a team of volunteer officers.
Notable former members include AFC Wimbledon who began their journey in the Combined Counties League and Guernsey who were the first channel island club in the National league System and the first where league matches required clubs to take a flight to get to their match.