Service Manager for Sexual Safety, Safeguarding & Public Protection

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Service Manager focusing on sexual safety and safeguarding within a leading healthcare trust. The role involves leadership in child and adult safeguarding, developing strategies, and ensuring compliance with national standards. Join a progressive and supportive team committed to making a difference in public protection across Nottinghamshire.

Benefits

Employee-led staff networks for support and inclusivity

In-house occupational health services

Supportive career development programs

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in safeguarding and sexual safety required.
• Evidence of ongoing personal development in sexual safety.
• Knowledge of national guidelines and policies related to sexual safety.

Responsibilities

• Advise on designing services for safeguarding children and adults.
• Develop strategies for sexual safety consistent with guidelines.
• Maintain effective relationships across the Trust and partner agencies.

Skills

Developing training packages for sexual safety

Strategic leadership in sexual safety

Analytical decision-making in stressful situations

Education

Registered Professional qualification in sexual safety

Degree with postgraduate training

Job description

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Band 8a

Main area Service Manager : Sexual Safety, Safeguarding & Public Protection Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 186-796-25-GH

Site Duncan Macmillan House Town Nottingham Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum (pro rata for part time) Salary period Yearly Closing 06/07/2025 23:59

Job overview

This post offers an exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual to expand on their existing safeguarding children and adult’s knowledge and skills whilst also being part of a progressive and supportive leadership team. If successful, you will work closely with the wider safeguarding team to innovatively drive the sexual safety, safeguarding and public protection agenda within the organisation and would become part of a ‘Think Family’ whole of life safeguarding service which provides advice and support to all disciplines across the trust.

The Trust is committed to ensuring it has robust systems in place for safeguarding adults and children and as such we are looking for a confident, passionate colleague with extensive experience in safeguarding and sexual safety to join our leadership team.

Main duties of the job

To advise and support the Trust and workforce in designing and providing services for safeguarding children and adults consistent with national, regional and local legislation, policies and best practice, with a focus on sexual safety.

This post is key to maintaining effective working relationships across the Trust and with multi-agency partners across the wide system

A significant proportion of time will be spent in clinical areas to deliver the role effectively within the Trust.

Working for our organisation

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Ensuring structures and systems are in place around sexual safety.
Provide professional advice and leadership to all aspects of safeguarding, public protection, with a focus on sexual safety.
Close working relationships with partnership agencies.
Develop sexual safety strategies in line with national guidance and ensure these are embedded within the Trust.
Provide sexual safety leadership and advice to staff across the Trust.
Responsible for ensuring the Trust achieves full compliance against local and national standards.
Identifying gaps in knowledge and training needs.
Represent the organisation on sexual safety matters, working with all relevant statutory and non statutory agencies.
Ensure the patient and carer voices are heard.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.

Person specification

Training

• Experience in developing and delivering training packages for sexual safety
• Commitment to ongoing personal development and regular supervision in relation to sexual safety
• Have attended wide range of recent multi and single agency safeguarding and Public Protection training
• Evidence of completion of broad range of post registration training courses in subjects such as teaching, supervision, report writing and leadership skills development

Experience

• Promote sexual safety, children's safeguarding and adult safeguarding
• Strategic leadership in sexual safety within clinical areas
• Experience of leading evidence based practice initiatives in sexual safety
• Working with sexual safety partners
• Relevant and recent experience in working within both physical and mental health settings
• Ability to undertake or use research to benefit children, adults and their carers

Knowledge

• Highly specialised knowledge of sexual safety
• Evidence of high level knowledge and experience in safeguarding children and adults
• Understanding of how sexual safety principles apply in healthcare settings
• Evidence of designing and embedding policies and procedures in relation to sexual safety

Qualifications

• Registered Professional qualification or equivalent broad and significant experience in sexual safety
• Degree supplemented by post graduate training or equivalent experience to masters level

Values and Behaviours

• All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
• All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust’s expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation

Skills

• Able to provide safeguarding and Public Protection leadership across a diverse healthcare setting
• Able to negotiate, mediate and challenge in relation to complex, emotive subjects
• Analyse information and make crucial decisions in stressful and complex situations
• Able to work autonomously and make decisions in challenging situations
• Demonstrate a person centred approach to safeguarding

Contractual Requirements

• A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post. However reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010

Additional Information

• We reserve the right to close the post early once we have received a sufficient number of applicants.
• The Trust believes in treating everyone with dignity and respect and encourages applications from all sectors of the community. We guarantee an interview to candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum essential criteria.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you. This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post. Should you require any further information please refer our Privacy Policy shown on the Trust website, please click here for more information.
• For eligible posts, DBS disclosures are mandatory before commencement of employment. If you are in a position that is deemed a regulated adult and/or child care role, you will not be able to start your employment until we have received a satisfactory DBS Disclosure. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Convictions which would otherwise be considered as 'spent' will also be checked as part of an Enhanced DBS Disclosure.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.