HSCP Senior Safeguarding Officer in Witham

This is a Full Time, Permanent Position. This is an excellent opportunity for a driven and dedicated professional to join the Hull Safeguarding Children Partnership (HSCP) at a pivotal time. Hull is supported by strong, well-established multi-agency partnerships working collaboratively to safeguard children, young people and their families, underpinned by a shared commitment to continuous improvement and achieving positive outcomes.

Working closely with the Head of Safeguarding Partnerships, you will play a key role in strengthening and developing safeguarding practice, under the Hull Safeguarding Children Partnership (HSCP) arrangements. You will support the delivery of HSCP priorities, driving forward improvement activity and ensuring that learning informs practice across all agencies.

A central aspect of the role will be building and maintaining strong, effective relationships with partners and stakeholders across the HSCP. You will actively support activity under the HSCP structure, to ensure that all organisations involved in safeguarding are fully engaged, working collaboratively, and contributing to the shared goal of keeping children and young people safe.

The successful candidate will provide professional support, information and challenge to colleagues across the partnership, ensuring that the voices and experiences of children, young people and families are heard and used to influence developments and improvements. You will play an integral role in ensuring that information is effectively shared across the partnership, with a clear emphasis on accuracy, relevance and accessibility for all agencies involved in safeguarding children and young people.

Strong organisational and coordination skills will be essential, enabling you to manage competing priorities, support the delivery of partnership work programmes and monitor progress against agreed objectives. The role will involve representing HSCP at regional and national multi-agency forums, contributing to the continuous development of safeguarding practice by ensuring that emerging best practice, policy developments and research are effectively disseminated and embedded locally.

You will bring a strong foundation of safeguarding expertise, including a sound understanding of safeguarding children legislation and statutory guidance such as Working Together to Safeguard Children 2026. You will demonstrate proven experience of working collaboratively within multi-agency environments, building and maintaining effective relationships with statutory and voluntary sector partners.

Highly developed communication skills are important for this role, with the ability to convey complex information clearly and appropriately to a range of audiences. Alongside this, you will possess strong analytical capability, enabling you to interpret data, identify key themes and trends, and contribute to the development of high-quality reports, audits and improvement activity.

A high level of attention to detail is essential, particularly in the production of accurate reports and documentation to support partnership governance. You will also provide professional consultation and guidance to practitioners, supporting the continuous improvement of safeguarding practice, policy and procedure across the Hull Safeguarding Children Partnership.

If you are passionate about safeguarding, thrive in partnership environments, and are committed to making a difference, we would welcome your application.

ROLE AND PURPOSE: To support the coordination, delivery and implementation of the Hull Safeguarding Children Partnership (HSCP) work programme, ensuring alignment with statutory legislation and locally agreed priorities set by the HSCP Executive Leads. The role will work in close collaboration with all relevant safeguarding agencies, and the Head of Hull Safeguarding Partnerships, to drive forward partnership activity, and contribute to the effective functioning of the Hull Safeguarding Children Partnership.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Strategy: Supports the HSCP improvement activity through acting as a representative at regional and national multi-agency stakeholder groups, ensuring that knowledge is continually updated in relation to emerging best practice, new policy and relevant research. Analyses themes and trends from audit and other learning activity and supports with sharing this across the partnership to improve practice. Provides professional practice advice, guidance and support to partners to contribute to the development of services which are effective in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in Hull. Uses professional knowledge and expertise to build up and apply an advanced safeguarding children 'knowledge base' relating to defined user groups, services, policies and professional standards. Provides training, consultation, coaching and detailed guidance to practitioners across the partnership on safeguarding practice, policies and procedures.
• Customer Focus: Develops effective working relationships with colleagues across the partnership to ensure that the voices and experiences of children, young people and families are heard and used to influence developments and improvements across the partnership. Develops and maintains effective working relationships with all stakeholders across the partnership, so that all those with a role in keeping children safe are included. Supports with ensuring that information is effectively shared across the partnership and that this is relevant, useful and informative.
• Performance Management: Contributes to the ongoing assessment of the effectiveness of local safeguarding arrangements by supporting the maintenance of relevant 'performance information' (including data, quality indicators, outcomes of inspection, complaints, the views of children and young people and relevant comparator information). Assists the partnership to identify and implement improvement actions resulting from learning and helps monitor the impact of those actions in keeping children safe.
• Leadership: Ensures that the HSCP responds in a timely and effective manner to government legislation, guidance and regulation and assesses the impact on local policy, procedures and practice. Assists with the planning and development of integrated and early help services for children and young people, ensuring that safeguarding is embedded into all service provision.
• Statutory Obligations: Provides professional practice advice and support to ensure that HSCP fulfils its statutory obligations under ‘Working Together 2018’.

Benefits of Working of Hull City Council:

• A competitive salary
• An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Initially 23 days annual leave depending on length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year, and three additional days off, one in May/August and one during the Christmas/New year period
• Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods
• Supportive and forward-thinking culture
• Great career development opportunities

Please ensure that you complete and submit your application by midnight prior to the closing date. We are committed to increasing the diversity, equality, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.