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Lead Samaritans' Safeguarding Mission and Make a Real Impact
Overview
Salary £62000 - £67000
Location Ewell, Surrey - Hybrid
Expires Expires at anytime
Join Samaritans, an esteemed organization dedicated to providing emotional support to those in need, as their Head of Safeguarding. In this crucial role, you'll be at the forefront of ensuring safety and care across all services, embodying the organization's commitment to protecting vulnerable individuals.
- Strategic management of the safeguarding team and policy development.
- Delivery of expert safeguarding advice and training within the organization.
- Chairing serious safeguarding incident panels and collaborating with external bodies.
- Representing Samaritans at key conferences and meetings.
- Must have current Designated Safeguarding Lead training.
- Registered Social Worker with substantial safeguarding experience.
- Demonstrated leadership in managing teams and handling serious case reviews.
- Expert knowledge of safeguarding laws and practices.
- Application deadline: November 10, midnight.
- Video interviews scheduled for November 18.
- Enhanced DBS check required as part of the recruitment process.
Samaritans is looking for a dynamic and experienced Head of Safeguarding. In this vital leadership role, you’ll provide strategic oversight and expert advice on safeguarding adults and children at risk, ensuring a robust safeguarding culture across all of our services and the organisation as a whole.
The role entails managing a team of Managers, leading our safeguarding strategy and policy development, providing expert safeguarding advice across the organisation, chairing serious safeguarding incident panels, building strong relationships with external safeguarding bodies, representing Samaritans at conferences and external meetings, and developing and updating safeguarding training.
Job requirements include up to date Designated Safeguarding Lead training and Safeguarding training, a qualified and registered Social Worker, significant safeguarding experience, child protection and/or protection of adults at risk of harm, previous experience working with volunteers, excellent up to date knowledge of safeguarding legislation, best practice guidance, policy and procedure, extensive leadership experience including managing high performing teams, with the ability to challenge, build and maintain strong and effective relationships, and experience of chairing and reporting serious case reviews and reporting to regulatory bodies, disclosure services, Local Authority Designated Officers, police and social services.
We offer competitive salaries, flexible and hybrid working to suit your needs, family-friendly policies, 28 days annual leave inclusive of wellbeing days and a matched pension contribution up to 5%. You’ll have a structured induction and ongoing projects, secondments & learning opportunities. We also have colleague-led affinity groups made up of people with shared identities. Your health and wellbeing is our priority. We have a staff community of Mental Health First Aiders, a Health Cash Plan and an Employee Assistance Programme. You’ll have free subscriptions to Headspace & Perkbox.
We take safeguarding seriously at Samaritans and follow safe recruitment practices. As this role has direct contact with children and adults at risk, this role will require an Enhanced DBS check with Adults and Children’s Barred Lists. At offer stage, as part of the conditional job offer, we will require the candidate to disclose in full, spent and unspent convictions by completing a declaration form.
Applications close midnight on 10 November. Video interviews will take place on 18 November.
