Safeguarding Manager – Intelligence Services

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Location: Shard

Salary: £65,000 - £75,000 depending on skills and experience

As Safeguarding Manager, the role will provide advisory and tactical delivery of safeguarding practice and procedures to clients in line with recommendations and identified gaps. Provide expertise to support them with implementation of those requirements and improvements across all Mitie services. Complete specialist reviews, gap analysis and risk assessments in line with safeguarding frameworks and as directed by the Head of Safeguarding. Support clients in their response and the reasonable steps expected of them to protect and safeguard their staff and support their wellbeing whilst ensuring they are compliant under current and new legislation.

Job Overview

Mitie are uniquely positioned to spearhead a Safer Communities response across the UK creating safer spaces for communities to prosper and flourish and where everyone can thrive.

By combining the power of the public and private sectors we will create environments where people can feel safe, secure and supported. Whether commuting, at work or simply out and about in the local community our goal is to protect and safeguard.

This is a new and exciting role and part of a team built to support Mitie's Safer Communities strategy by providing subject matter expertise to existing functions and services provided by Mitie to clients across all sectors, which includes business, retail, sporting and public sectors.

Main Duties

As the Safeguarding Manager you will form part of a team working with clients to enhance skills & knowledge, Models of Practice, policy & procedures to enhance safeguarding practice that promotes a safer community. The role will work across a number of areas with each client to advise and support delivery that ensures organisations are not only safeguarding and protecting their people but demonstrating compliance with legislation changes such as the Workers Protection Act, Employees Rights Bill, Domestic Abuse and Safeguarding legislation.

The role will assist in developing new approaches in sectors not currently practising contextual safeguarding and being innovative with new technologies such as AI and how it may support better protection and safeguarding activity. The role will offer support for continuous professional development, the building of new and improved training provision that builds more awareness, response and activity across all sectors whilst looking at how best to identify and deter those that would seek to harm.

What We Are Looking For

1. Experienced Safeguarding professional in a fast paced environment. Beneficial to have worked across different areas of safeguarding practice.
2. Experience of supporting the development of policy and best practice across different sectors.
3. Able to demonstrate where you have influenced, advised and supported colleagues or sectors on safeguarding.
4. Demonstrable knowledge of safeguarding and connected legislation.
5. Self motivated, driven and passionate about making a difference for people and communities.
6. Experience of establishing effective working relationships, partnerships and collaborations across a range of organisations.
7. Proven planning, organisational skills and attention to detail.
8. Able to demonstrate where you have influenced and driven change.
9. Flexible and able to adapt to changing workplace and regulatory requirements. Able to demonstrate continuous professional development.
10. Delivers to the highest standards, responsible, ethical, a good communicator who values and respects others and is able to build strong relationships and partnerships.

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

Since 1987, Mitie’s 72,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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