Job Details

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 Children’s 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.

This role is not open to sponsorship.

Equal Opportunity Employer

To help us achieve our ambition to give children and young people with brain injury and neurodisability the opportunity to live the best life possible, we want to accurately reflect the UK’s diverse population. We want equity, diversity, and inclusion to be at the heart of everything we do, and our people, services, and culture to reflect the diverse needs of all. Through our diversity and inclusion strategy, we have made a commitment to increase the diversity of our charity and create an inclusive culture. We have networks across the organisation working to ensure that these aims are met - including an LGBTQIA2S+ group, Ethnic Diversity Group, and Spark – our broad EDI group. Read more about our EDI work here. We welcome applications from all who share our ambition regardless of background. We will strive to ensure that 

• 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 Children’s 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 Children’s 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 Children’s 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 Children’s Trust when relevant.
• Play a key role in policy and service development and its implementation across the teams, working with others to achieve The Children’s 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.
• Facilitate and contribute to safeguarding audits, demonstrating and sharing your knowledge of how to implement and audit the effectiveness of safeguarding.