At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead safeguarding practices and support individuals in living safe, independent lives.
- Company: Join Blackpool Council, dedicated to improving community well-being.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, supportive team, and opportunities for personal growth.
- Other info: Be part of a culture that values respect, kindness, and social justice.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in people's lives while working in an iconic UK town.
- Qualifications: Experience in safeguarding and a passion for supporting vulnerable individuals.
The predicted salary is between 47181 - 51356 £ per year.
Contract Details
About the Role
At Blackpool Council we want the people we serve to live well.
This means living ordinary lives in the place they call home, in communities where they look out for one another, doing what matters to them.
If people need some support, we start by understanding what a good life looks like for them, and how we can work together to achieve it.
We are looking for a Safeguarding Practice Development Lead to support our safeguarding work, creating the right environment for all of our staff to achieve this.
Responsibilities
- Build trusted relationships.
- Have conversations with people based on what matters most to them.
- Understand what is making a person less safe and why.
- Ensure people’s wishes, feelings and beliefs are central to decision‑making.
- Support people to live as independently as possible for as long as possible, connecting them to wider networks of opportunity and support.
- Increase people’s hope, self‑esteem and creative potential.
- Respond quickly in a crisis and stick with people until things are better for them.
- Be involved in people’s lives in the least intrusive way.
- Respect people’s decisions and ensure any decisions they cannot make by themselves are made in their best interests.
- Make plans with people to help them be as safe as they can be and want to be.
- Keep in touch with people to check how they are, how things are going and if anything needs to change.
- Listen and recognise that people are experts in their own lives.
- Respect the dignity and diversity of the people you’re working with.
- Understand and respond to people’s unique needs and aspirations.
- Communicate respectfully with and about people.
- Be curious.
- Be useful.
- Be kind.
- Be brave.
- Uphold human rights and social justice.
- Question the status quo.
- Do no harm.
- Critically reflect and keep learning.
Benefits
- The opportunity to work hard and improve the lives of people who need your support.
- To be part of an organisation which is building a culture of respecting people and building on their strengths.
- To be part of a small, well‑supported team who work innovatively to support people flexibly.
- To model all of the above across a whole organisation.
- A competitive package of rewards and benefits.
- To take part in well‑structured, helpful and reflective supervision.
- To do all of this in one of the UK’s most iconic towns.
At this point in time we are not able to offer a visa sponsorship in this role due to operational reasons.
Legal Obligations
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.
This post is subject to satisfactory reference history of at least two years, Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, medical clearance, evidence of any essential qualifications and proof of Right to Work in the UK in accordancewith the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and amendments to the exemptions order, which mean that certain offences are ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed.
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