Safeguarding Lead

Job summary

At East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH), we support babies, children, young people and families across East Anglia through hospice care, wellbeing services and family support. We are looking for an experienced safeguarding professional to lead and develop safeguarding practice across our organisation.

This permanent role is offered on a part-time basis of 30 hours per week. Although the role will require you to work across our 3 hospice locations (The Nook - Norwich, The Treehouse - Ipswich, and Milton - Cambridge), we would be grateful if you would specify your preferred EACH hospice work-base location in your application.This is an onsite role, with occasional hybrid working.

As safeguarding lead, you will provide organisation-wide leadership, advice and oversight to ensure safeguarding arrangements for children, young people and adults at risk remain effective, compliant and centred on best practice. You will work closely with care teams, managers, volunteers and external partners to promote a culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility.

Main duties of the job

• Providing specialist safeguarding advice and support across the organisation.
• Leading safeguarding case oversight, reviews, audits and quality improvement activity.
• Developing and delivering safeguarding training for employees and volunteers.
• Supporting compliance with safeguarding legislation, guidance and regulatory requirements.
• Contributing to organisational safeguarding policies, procedures and governance reporting.
• Working with multi-agency safeguarding partnerships and external stakeholders.
• Providing strategic leadership alongside the executive safeguarding lead to support continuous improvement in safeguarding practice.

About us

East Anglias Childrens Hospices (EACH) ensures the best possible quality of life and makes every moment count for children and families across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. Our family-centred approach includes specialist nursing care, symptom management nursing, short breaks, wellbeing activities, therapies, care at end of life, bereavement support, counselling and volunteer services in the family home; all meeting the individual needs of the child, young person and whole family.

In 2020, all three of our hospices, The Nook (Norwich), The Treehouse (Ipswich) and Milton (Cambridge), were rated OUTSTANDING by the Care Quality Commission.

Our people are central to our success. We have a talented workforce of staff and volunteers in care, fundraising, retail, facilities, IT, finance, marketing & communications and human resources. Were over 440 employees strong, with a team of more than 2,000 volunteers across the organisation including over 50 shops and a retail distribution centre.

Benefits of working for us include:

• Enhanced holiday plus holiday purchase scheme
• Flexible/hybrid working
• Employee health cash plan
• Employee assistance programme
• Employer pension scheme, with up to 7% employer contribution, and life assurance cover
• Free eye tests
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced maternity & paternity pay

Job responsibilities

If you would like to find out more information about this role, please see the attached job specification on the application page.

Qualifications

Essential

• Safeguarding Children Level 4 training.
• Current professional registration (NMC, Social Work England or HCPC).

Experience

Essential

• Experience of holding safeguarding responsibilities within a relevant health or social care setting.
• Experience of developing or leading safeguarding services and initiatives.
• Experience of working with babies, children, young people and families with complex needs.
• Experience of delivering training, undertaking audits and producing reports.
• The ability to communicate complex information clearly and effectively with a wide range of audiences.
• Knowledge of safeguarding legislation, guidance and multi-agency working.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).