Deputy Trust Head of Safeguarding, Children and Adults

40 Hours per week, 52 weeks per year

Salary: £55,523 - £62,867 per annum (subject to experience and qualifications)

Application Deadline is Monday 14th July

Interview Dates Thursday 24th & Friday 25th July

The post can be based at any of our Schools or Colleges in Sheffield, Birmingham, Stourbridge and Nailsworth in Gloucestershire. There is an expectation that the post holder will travel to the other Trust provisions on a regular basis.

Applications are invited for this critical role in ensuring a robust culture of safeguarding practice across the Trust, providing operational, strategic and corporate direction including complex professional advice on matters relating to safeguarding.

The successful applicant will:

• Lead on collaborative working practices across both agency and geographical boundaries, with providers of health and social care and other partner agencies.
• Provide a seamless approach to safeguarding, including ensuring that national and local recommendations from emergent safeguarding work are implemented across the Trust.
• In supporting the Trust Head of Safeguarding, you will:

• Be instrumental in ensuring quality safeguarding for all our children and adults.
• Be strategic in nature, but with an operational focus, you will work closely with professionals and partner organisations, and you will be able to set the pace and tone of progress in delivering a comprehensive and seamless safeguarding function.
• Have the opportunity to work across the Trust and beyond safeguarding and to have a wider influence and a real chance to develop your career.

The successful candidate will:

• Have a current proven track record in safeguarding and understand the complexities around children and adults from both an operational and strategic perspective.
• Exhibit clear evidence of interpersonal skills; a lot of the responsibilities you will take on in this role requires an exceptional level of team effort, so you must be able to build strong working relationships with your colleagues throughout the Trust and other key stakeholders.
• You must have a demonstrable record of successful partnership with other staff in this field in order to achieve the aims of the Trust.
• Proven organisational and analytical abilities are expected. You should be able to combine your workload in demanding situations. No two days are the same in this role, so if you are looking for variety, this may be the post for you.

The role requires a great deal of self-management of your diary, time and travel and some evening and weekend working will be required. There will be an expectation that the post holder will need to spend a number of nights away each week supporting our settings. At times this can be up to three nights away depending on locality.

In addition, you will:

• Have a degree in education or health care or social care or related subject.
• Formal qualification/course related to specialist field of Safeguarding or equivalent experience along with safeguarding supervision training/experience.
• Safeguarding supervision training/experience.
• Have strong relationship management capability with multiple stakeholders in a diverse, complex entrepreneurial and geographical spread organisation.
• Be confident to challenge the status quo and be a positive disruptor to drive organisational behavioural change in safeguarding. Have a can do, supportive attitude underpinned by a coaching and mentoring methodology.
• Need to demonstrate an absolute commitment to improving outcomes for children, young people and adults an intelligent grasp of our current operating context as a baseline for delivering a high quality safeguarding service.

Working at Ruskin Mill Trust is incredibly rewarding; we offer competitive salaries and holiday allowances, an auto-enrolment pension scheme with a salary sacrifice option, a health cash plan and employee assistance programme via Medicash. In addition, staff receive valuable training opportunities including an in-depth interactive induction to enable our new team members to experience our Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE) curriculum and also opportunities for further training and academic research including our own MSc in Practical Skills Therapeutic Education.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced Level Disclosure as well as a medical check, references, evidence of qualifications, plus verification of the right to work in the UK.