[Hiring] Principal Safeguarding Manager @Action for Children

Role Description

As one of our Principal Safeguarding Managers, you will be strategically responsible for the promotion of best practice in safeguarding across the UK and ensuring that we are able to respond to both internal and external safeguarding demands as a large provider of regulated settings and community-based services for vulnerable young people.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Advising senior managers and staff in respect of complex safeguarding matters affecting children and the workforce.
• Ensuring that these matters are escalated to the Director of Safeguarding where required.
• Designing and delivering safeguarding learning events.
• Undertaking various projects that make the charity safer.
• Conducting learning reviews following critical incidents.

How you'll help to create brighter futures:

• Ensure that children, young people, and vulnerable adults are safeguarded through leadership and advice provided to managers and practitioners in complex matters.
• Review and audit the effectiveness of safeguarding arrangements across the whole of the charity’s functions.
• Ensure that relevant reports are provided for the Director of Safeguarding and Quality Assurance, ELT, and trustees as required.
• Build effective relationships with managers and staff and provide leadership, support, and challenge.
• Undertake case reviews and whistleblowing and other investigations where there is a need to review the effectiveness of safeguarding arrangements.
• Establish and lead multi-disciplinary project teams.
• Design and deliver safeguarding learning events both face-to-face and online.

Qualifications

• A Social Work Qualification is a MUST.
• Experience in a statutory setting (such as children’s social care, police, or probation).
• Experience of managing safeguarding related projects successfully.
• Experience of effective communication with internal departments and external agencies.
• Ability to work in a trauma-informed and culturally competent way with colleagues working closely with children and young people experiencing significant adversity.
• Detailed knowledge of children’s services legislation, guidance, and regulations in at least one UK jurisdiction.
• Knowledge of Charity Commission safeguarding expectations.
• Understanding of issues in the provision of children’s social services and social care services in each jurisdiction and region.
• Able to influence and create change regardless of hierarchies and without direct line management of staff.

Requirements

• Ability to offer an independent voice to provide both challenge and support to the organisation and its staff and managers.

Benefits

• 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave.
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages.
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover.
• Staff discounts and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailer's discounts.

Company Description

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.