Safeguarding Strategy and Assurance Lead Band 8B

The Children's Trust; Tadworth; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent UK charity is looking for a Safeguarding Strategy and Assurance Lead to enhance clinical safeguarding practices. The role involves ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and promoting effective teamwork. Candidates should have experience in safeguarding, excellent interpersonal skills, and lead management of safeguarding investigations. The position offers a salary range of £28,158 to £32,334, along with various benefits including extensive leave entitlements.

Benefits

Attractive salary

Generous leave entitlements

Supportive work environment

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience of leading on the management of complex safeguarding issues.
• Currently practising in the field of safeguarding.
• Experience of effective partnership working with internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Work in partnership to ensure the organisation meets safeguarding responsibilities.
• Lead on management of safeguarding investigations.
• Provide expert operational and strategic advice on safeguarding.

Skills

Ability to drive and influence change

Excellent interpersonal skills

Highly organised

Ability to undertake complex safeguarding investigations

Ability to identify and challenge safeguarding practice

Education

Registered Nurse

Post-registration training in safeguarding children and young people

MSc

Job description

Safeguarding Strategy and Assurance Lead Band 8B

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Strategy and Assurance Lead (Band 8B) to join our Nursing Care team. This role is to continue to shape collaborative working practices across clinical services to provide consistent and robust standards of safeguarding.

You will ensure that recommendations from regulatory and professionals safeguarding standards are implemented.

Main duties of the job

The role of Safeguarding Strategy and Assurance Lead is to continue to shape collaborative working practices across clinical services to provide consistent and robust standards of safeguarding. You will ensure that recommendations from regulatory and professionals safeguarding standards are implemented. You will work in partnership with the Designated Safeguarding Lead for The Childrens Trust school and be fully supported by the Senior Leadership Team who understand the need to foster a culture of safeguarding and who understand the challenges.

This will be a key role in ensuring quality safeguarding for all children and adults at risk. Alongside the Designated Safeguarding Lead for school, you will support all activities necessary to ensure the organisation meets its responsibilities to safeguard children and young people. You will be strategic in nature but with an operational focus, who will work closely with professionals and partner organisations to deliver a comprehensive safeguarding function. This role is both inward and outward facing, being a visible presence in the clinical setting as well as being a strategic and collaborative leader with various stakeholders.

You will play a key role in promoting excellent professional practice within the organisation, providing advice, support, supervision and expertise for fellow professionals and ensure safeguarding training and supervision is in place from board to floor.

About Us

The Childrens Trust is the UKs leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy, and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service.

Boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in Surrey, we are located just outside of London, close to the M25 (accessible via Junction 8, A217 to Tadworth) and easily accessible via National Rail, by way of: Clapham Junction, Sutton, and Epsom.

The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including adoption pay, time off for fertility treatment, enhanced paternity leave, paid carers leave, time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms, time off for gender reassignment.

We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service.

Other benefits include free on-site parking; a staff shuttle service from Epsom and Sutton train stations to Tadworth Court, subsidised cafeteria, on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability), the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme, and the opportunity to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Job responsibilities

Safeguarding

Demonstrate advanced skills and competencies to influence the pathways of care in the safeguarding of children, young people and vulnerable adults. The role requires a high level of legal literacy of the Children Act, Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and family law that interface with the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults agenda.

Demonstrate advanced skill and competencies to influence pathways of care in safeguarding children and vulnerable adults with expert advice and co‑ordination for safeguarding. You will work closely with our teams to ensure The Childrens Trust meet its statutory responsibilities to protect the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.

Provide expert operational and strategic advice underpinned by highly developed specialist knowledge to the organisation on safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, incorporating local and national policy and statutory regulations.

Work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service, supporting managers and staff across The Childrens Trust in the areas of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.

Lead on partnership working with colleagues in local authorities and safeguarding partner boards.

Maintain knowledge and expertise on national policy in relation to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults across The Childrens Trust providing quality assurance and ensuring consistency of response across the safeguarding systems.

Ensure there are effective mechanisms to implement national recommendations from emergent safeguarding work across The Childrens Trust when relevant.

Play a key role in policy and service development and its implementation across the teams, working with others to achieve The Childrens Trust objectives.

Ensure there is a robust safeguarding training strategy and programme in place to meet all educational and training requirements which meets local and national standards.

Provide, receive and analyse complex and sensitive information, ensuring that frequent exposure to highly distressing information is managed effectively and sensitively.

Respond to enquiries regarding safeguarding issues from colleagues nationally and other partner agencies.

Able to effectively communicate local safeguarding knowledge, research and findings from audits, challenge poor practice and address areas where there is an identified training/development opportunity.

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Skills & Abilities

• Ability to drive and influence change
• Ability to prepare reports and presentations to a variety of audiences with proven ability to act as an ambassador for an organisation
• Ability to problem solve and make decisions and take charge of events
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Highly organised with the ability to document concise and accurate records
• Professional, Positive, and Committed
• Adaptable and flexible, tenacious and persuasive
• Ability to undertake complex safeguarding investigations
• Ability to identify and challenge safeguarding practice

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse
• Completion of post-registration training in safeguarding children and young people (including law, policy and practice at Level 2 or PGDip)
• MSc

Experience

• Currently practising in the field of safeguarding
• Experience of leading on the management of complex safeguarding issues
• Experience of effective partnership working with internal and external stakeholders
• Experience of high‑level multi‑agency working
• Experience of working at an 8b level in a safeguarding field, with experience in both adult and child safeguarding.
• Experience in strategic leadership and assurance.

Knowledge

• The role requires a high level of legal literacy of the Children Act, Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, Looked after Children and family law that interface with the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults agenda

Personal Qualities

• Commitment to the vision and values of The Childrens Trust.
• Flexible and can do attitude to competing commitments in workload.
• Highly motivated and reliable.
• Ability to cope working in a demanding environment.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£28,158 to £32,334 a year dependent upon experience (£70,396 - £80,837 FTE)