Safeguarding Manager

A Safeguarding Manager job working for a charity and paying £40,000 per annum, provides an opportunity for an experienced safeguarding professional to provide supportive intervention across this community focused charity.
Your new role
As Safeguarding Manager, you will oversee operational safeguarding performance across the organisation. You will be the primary source of support, advice, and expertise for any safeguarding matters, leading operational safeguarding efforts and collaborating with teams, including volunteering, legal and governance, and safeguarding officers as well as colleagues involved in daily events and activities. You will play a central role in maintaining and reviewing the organisation's safeguarding plans and will ensure the distribution of safeguarding policies, procedures and resources across the organisation. You will be responsible for training and development, identifying training needs and delivering safeguarding training where needed. You will manage safeguarding concerns, incidents or allegations alongside welfare and safeguarding colleagues, handling referrals to safeguarding agencies such as social services or the police. You will provide regular reporting and insight, reporting on casework progress, outcomes, and thematic insights to senior management, influencing policies, procedures, and training improvements.
What you'll need to succeed
You will have expert safeguarding knowledge and proven experience gained within a safeguarding management role, this will ideally be supported by a professional qualification in social care, social work, youth and community work or similar. You will be able to demonstrate continuous professional development in relation to safeguarding children and adults at risk, and will have an exceptional understanding of referral processes, working with internal and external stakeholders such as members of the public, statutory authorities, police forces and local authorities. You will have undertaken the delivery of safeguarding training and will be able to identify training needs. You will be well versed in writing and implementing processes and will be proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Packages. You will be a confident communicator with excellent customer service skills and a strong team ethic.
What you'll get in return
The opportunity to be a part of an engaged team where you can share your passion and knowledge to positively impact millions of people every day, this is supported by a salary of £40,000 per annum, a contributory pension scheme, 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) plus other excellent benefits. This role will be based from home, with travel nationally on a regular basis.
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