Safeguarding Practice Innovation Lead

Blackpool Council; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackpool Council is seeking a Safeguarding Practice Development Lead to support safeguarding work and create the right environment for staff to help people live well. The role focuses on building trusted relationships, centering people’s wishes, and ensuring safety decisions are made respectfully and ethically.

You will work in a small, well-supported team, engaging with diverse communities, and contributing to a culture that respects rights and supports independence.

Qualifications

• Listen and recognise that people are experts in their own lives.
• Respect the dignity and diversity of the people you’re working with.
• Understand and respond to people’s unique needs and aspirations.
• Communicate respectfully with and about people.
• Be curious, be useful, be kind, be brave.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships and have conversations based on what matters to people.
• Understand what is making a person less safe and why.
• Keep people’s wishes, feelings and beliefs central to decisions.
• Support independence and connect people to wider networks of opportunity.
• Respond quickly in a crisis and stay with people until things improve.

Skills

Listen

Respect dignity

Communication

Curiosity

Be brave

Do no harm

Critical reflection

Job description

Blackpool Council is seeking a Safeguarding Practice Development Lead to support safeguarding work and create the right environment for staff to help people live well. The role focuses on building trusted relationships, centering people’s wishes, and ensuring safety decisions are made respectfully and ethically.

You will work in a small, well-supported team, engaging with diverse communities, and contributing to a culture that respects rights and supports independence.