Senior Safeguarding Advisor (Band 7)

NHS; Tadworth; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

A dedicated children's charity in Tadworth seeks a Senior Safeguarding Advisor to enhance its safeguarding framework. The role involves providing essential support for safeguarding children, ensuring compliance with regulations, and delivering training across teams. Candidates should possess relevant health care or social work qualifications, alongside minimum three years of safeguarding practice. This position offers a rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact in the lives of vulnerable children and young people.

Benefits

Attractive salary

Enhanced leave benefits

Free on-site parking

Subsidised cafeteria

Qualifications

• 3+ years of practice experience in safeguarding.
• Currently practising in safeguarding or relevant recent experience.
• Experience in delivering training and supervision.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with teams to ensure statutory responsibilities for safeguarding.
• Provide specialist advice for Looked After Children and liaise with external professionals.
• Lead the organisation's mandatory safeguarding training programme.

Skills

Knowledge of safeguarding applicable to children and young people

Excellent interpersonal skills

Ability to prepare reports

Education

Relevant professional Health Care or Social Work qualification

Registration with NMC, HCPC or Social Work England

Job description

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Safeguarding Advisor (Band 7) to join our Nursing and Care team. This role is to provide high quality support to the Safeguarding Strategy and Assurance Lead and the wider organisation, to ensure the organisation meets its regulatory responsibilities to safeguard children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Main duties of the job: The role of Senior Safeguarding Advisor is to provide high quality support to the Safeguarding Strategy and Assurance Lead and the wider organisation, to ensure the organisation meets its regulatory responsibilities to safeguard children, young people and vulnerable adults. You will provide specialist advice and consultation across the multi‑disciplinary team to support children who are looked after, liaising with external professionals to support liberty protection safeguards and mental capacity.

The post holder will apply social work values, theory, knowledge and skills required to support safety and wellbeing for children and young adults with complex neurodisability and acquired brain injuries. You will play a key role in promoting excellent professional practice within the organisation, providing advice, support, training, 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 UK’s 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.

Staff Benefits

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, 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 Location

The Children’s Trust, Tadworth Court, Tadworth, Surrey, KT20 5RU

Job Responsibilities

• Work closely with teams to ensure the Trust meets statutory responsibilities to protect the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.
• Support the organisation to meet statutory duties for Looked After Children, including oversight of care planning standards and close liaison with external professionals.
• Provide specialist advice and consultation to the wider MDT for CLA, LPS, DOLS and MCA, keeping abreast of policy and national changes.
• Ensure any CYP in the assessment stage have their social care status and safeguarding concerns identified and managed, working closely with external partners.
• Lead the high‑quality delivery of the organisation’s mandatory safeguarding training programme.
• Create or utilise opportunities for recordable Safeguarding Supervision.
• Provide Safeguarding Supervision to individuals or groups, ensuring reflective practice is embedded.
• Support analysis of regulatory compliance data against safeguarding training and supervision.
• Effectively communicate local safeguarding knowledge, research and audit findings, challenge poor practice and address identified training/development opportunities.
• Lead on assigned safeguarding investigations and embed subsequent learning.
• Support overview of incident management and trend, reporting information in Clinical Governance meetings.
• Facilitate and contribute to safeguarding audits and the development of safeguarding and other relevant policies.
• Cover for the absence of the Safeguarding Strategy and Assurance Lead as required.
• Undertake other duties within your skill set as reasonably required.
• Maintain knowledge and expertise on national and local guidance in safeguarding.
• Take regular safeguarding supervision and reflection.
• Maintain a positive approach, overcome challenges, and manage pressures; respond to feedback; motivate self and others.
• Handle sensitive information professionally and maintain confidential records.
• Report identified risks, maintain accurate records, and participate in audits for clinical governance.
• Produce internal and external reports, including the Section 11 audit.
• Ensure concerns are accurately reported.
• Meet regulations: CQC, Ofsted Care and Education frameworks, children's home regulations, etc.
• Meet with parents in complaint processes, manage complaints.
• Adhere to professional standards, maintain Social Work England registration.
• Adhere to health and safety guidelines—provide vaccination evidence, complete manual handling training, promote health and safety.

Person Specification – Qualifications

• Relevant professional Health Care or Social Work qualification.
• Registration with NMC, HCPC or Social Work England.
• Completion of post‑registration training in safeguarding children and young people (e.g., Law, policy and practice at Level 2 or PGDip) or equivalent experience.

Person Specification – Experience

• Minimum 3 years practice experience in safeguarding.
• Currently practising in safeguarding, or relevant recent experience.
• Experience delivering training and supervision.
• Experience effective partnership working with external stakeholders.
• Experience working with children, young people and families.

Person Specification – Skills & Knowledge

• Strong knowledge of safeguarding applicable to children and young people.
• Understanding of social care framework for vulnerable children.
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks (CQC, Ofsted, etc.) and their application in a childrens home.
• Knowledge of CLA, LPS and MCA.
• Ability to prepare reports, problem‑solve, make decisions, and challenge practice.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and confident training delivery.

Personal Qualities

• Commitment to the vision and values of The Children's Trust.
• Flexible, proactive, and reliable.
• Ability to cope in demanding environment.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Employer Details

The Children’s Trust, Tadworth Court, Tadworth, Surrey, KT20 5RU