Safeguarding Strategy and Assurance Lead Band 8B in Tadworth

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Strategy and Assurance Lead (Band 8B) to join our Nursing Care team. This role is to continue to shape collaborative working practices across clinical services to provide consistent and robust standards of safeguarding. You will ensure that recommendations from regulatory and professionals safeguarding standards are implemented.

Main duties of the job:

• The role of Safeguarding Strategy and Assurance Lead is to continue to shape collaborative working practices across clinical services to provide consistent and robust standards of safeguarding.
• You will work in partnership with the Designated Safeguarding Lead for The Childrens Trust school and be fully supported by the Senior Leadership Team who understand the need to foster a culture of safeguarding and who understand the challenges.
• This will be a key role in ensuring quality safeguarding for all children and adults at risk.
• Alongside the Designated Safeguarding Lead for school, you will support all activities necessary to ensure the organisation meets its responsibilities to safeguard children and young people.
• You will be strategic in nature but with an operational focus, who will work closely with professionals and partner organisations to deliver a comprehensive safeguarding function.
• This role is both inward and outward facing, being a visible presence in the clinical setting as well as being a strategic and collaborative leader with various stakeholders.
• You will play a key role in promoting excellent professional practice within the organisation, providing advice, support, supervision and expertise for fellow professionals and ensure safeguarding training and supervision is in place from board to floor.

About Us:

The Childrens Trust is the UKs leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy, and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service.

Boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in Surrey, we are located just outside of London, close to the M25 (accessible via Junction 8, A217 to Tadworth) and easily accessible via National Rail, by way of: Clapham Junction, Sutton, and Epsom.

The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including adoption pay, time off for fertility treatment, enhanced paternity leave, paid carers leave, time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms, time off for gender reassignment.

We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service. Other benefits include free on-site parking; a staff shuttle service from Epsom and Sutton train stations to Tadworth Court, subsidised cafeteria, on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability), the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme, and the opportunity to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Job responsibilities:

• Demonstrate advanced skills and competencies to influence the pathways of care in the safeguarding of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
• The role requires a high level of legal literacy of the Children Act, Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and family law that interface with the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults agenda.
• Provide expert operational and strategic advice underpinned by highly developed specialist knowledge to the organisation on safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, incorporating local and national policy and statutory regulations.
• Work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service, supporting managers and staff across The Childrens Trust in the areas of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.
• Lead on partnership working with colleagues in local authorities and safeguarding partner boards.
• Maintain knowledge and expertise on national policy in relation to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults across The Childrens Trust providing quality assurance and ensuring consistency of response across the safeguarding systems.
• Ensure there are effective mechanisms to implement national recommendations from emergent safeguarding work across The Childrens Trust when relevant.
• Play a key role in policy and service development and its implementation across the teams, working with others to achieve The Childrens Trust objectives.
• Ensure there is a robust safeguarding training strategy and programme in place to meet all educational and training requirements which meets local and national standards.
• Provide, receive and analyse complex and sensitive information, ensuring that frequent exposure to highly distressing information is managed effectively and sensitively.
• Respond to enquiries regarding safeguarding issues from colleagues nationally and other partner agencies.
• Able to effectively communicate local safeguarding knowledge, research and findings from audits, challenge poor practice and address areas where there is an identified training/development opportunity.

Person Specification:

• Skills & Abilities: Ability to drive and influence change, prepare reports and presentations to a variety of audiences, problem solve and make decisions, excellent interpersonal skills, highly organised, professional, positive, committed, adaptable, flexible, tenacious, persuasive, ability to undertake complex safeguarding investigations, ability to identify and challenge safeguarding practice.
• Qualifications: Registered Nurse, completion of post-registration training in safeguarding children and young people (including law, policy and practice at Level 2 or PGDip), MSc.
• Experience: Currently practising in the field of safeguarding, experience of leading on the management of complex safeguarding issues, effective partnership working with internal and external stakeholders, high-level multi-agency working, working at an 8b level in a safeguarding field, experience in strategic leadership and assurance.
• Knowledge: High level of legal literacy of the Children Act, Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, Looked after Children and family law that interface with the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults agenda.
• Personal Qualities: Commitment to the vision and values of The Childrens Trust, flexible and can-do attitude, highly motivated and reliable, ability to cope working in a demanding environment.

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.