Safeguarding Boards Manager

Job Title: Safeguarding Boards Manager
Location: Stevenage
Salary Range: £58,085 with the opportunity to progress to of £65,017 per annum
Hours: 37 per week
Contract: Permanent

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and creative manager to join our Hertfordshire Business Unit. Hertfordshire has a strong record of partnership working in the delivery of safeguarding services. We are looking for an experienced manager with extensive knowledge of children and adult safeguarding issues coupled with proven leadership and influencing skills, which will equip you for this high-profile role at the centre of Hertfordshire Safeguarding Children Partnership (HSCP) and Hertfordshire Safeguarding Adult Board (HSAB). With a focus on effective inter-agency working, you will share the boards’ commitment to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.

Purpose of the role:

The post has lead responsibility for ensuring the effectiveness of inter-agency working in relation to services for safeguarding children and adults and particularly to ensure that the Hertfordshire Safeguarding Children Partnership (HSCP) and the Hertfordshire Safeguarding Adults Board (HSAB) are each an effective body for promoting excellence in multi-agency services to protect children and adults. The post provides professional advice to the HSCP and HSAB and their Subgroups and manages the two Job Family Level 12 Managers and the joint Business Unit that supports the HSCP and HSAB.

Your professional background and qualifications could be in health, social care, or policing, but you will have substantial experience of working in partnership across a range of services and sound knowledge of safeguarding vulnerable adults and/or children’s practice and the statutory framework. Excellent communication and networking skills are essential to guide this team of managers from a wide range of agencies.

You will be responsible for ensuring high performance in the service. In doing so, you will be overseeing the overall running of the Business Unit, preparing reports for relevant boards, analysing data for your service and formulating action plans for improvements required, and supporting lawful information sharing in the activities undertaken by the Business Unit.

You will manage direct spend and staffing budgets to ensure best value for money.

You will embrace technology and transformation to drive continuous improvements, collaborating with professionals from partner agencies. (i.e., health, police, probation, education)

You will be part of a stable and united service, where everyone’s contributions are valued, and high standards of practice and performance, accountability and learning are promoted.

Challenges & Opportunities:

You will be working in a fast-paced stimulating environment that will draw on your organisational skills, your ability to prioritise workloads in a relatively fast paced changing environment.

Your previous experience working in a collaborative team is essential in this role as together the Business Unit team will work towards achieving partnership goals and objectives.

You will be managing an active and busy inbox as well as arranging and participating in various meetings, working closely with colleagues, and internal and external partners and occasionally individuals within the community.

Technical skills & Qualifications required for the role:

• The post requires a relevant professional qualification (and registration with any relevant body) and experience of managing safeguarding services in social care, medicine, nursing, education, or policing. You will ideally hold a relevant management qualification and have at least 5 years of experience in managing safeguarding team/s. You will be experienced in multi-agency working at a senior level
• Relevant experience in safeguarding children, in strategic planning and service development, and project management in a multi-agency environment
• Experience and skills in partnership working in children’s or adult services provided by the public, private, voluntary and community sectors
• Familiar with current research and government regulation and guidance on effective safeguarding practice and promoting the welfare of children and adults as it applies to the work of the HSCP, HSAB, the Local Authority and to partner agencies
• Capable of giving or sourcing advice and decisions on complex cases and on aspects of policy in relation to the duties of HSCP and HSAB
• Good working knowledge of child protection and safeguarding work, including the skills, and training required by child protection workers in all relevant professions and of managers at all levels
• Excellent communication both verbally and in writing to engage stakeholders from a wide variety of roles and agencies. The ability and credibility to present complex issues in relation to safeguarding effectively to a variety of audiences acting as a source of professional expertise and guidance
• Ability to assimilate, analyse and present complex data on outcomes and the performance of a diverse group of agencies in relation to safeguarding
• Good knowledge of performance management systems and the ability to relate this to the wider framework of accountability within which the HSCP and HSAB operates
• Experience of building teams and leading staff to achieve results, including supporting development and achievement of the team’s personal, professional and organisational goals
• Experience of balancing the requirements of multiple stakeholders across organisations
• Ability to translate and communicate strategic business objectives into focussed projects and deliverables within a multi-agency environment and how you have monitored, and progress chased their implementation
• Ability to demonstrate the provision of advice and make decisions on complex cases and aspects of policy in relation to child protection, to promote the welfare of children or safeguarding adults

Closing Date: Sunday 7th April 2024
Interview Date: Week commencing Monday 15th April 2024