Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board Strategic Manager

Salary: £55,851

Grade: Level 5 Zone 1

Location: 5 Pancras Square N1C 4AG

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: Wednesday 3rd September 2025; 23:59

How You’ll Be Involved

As the Strategic Manager for the Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board (SAPB), you will provide strong leadership, operational oversight, and strategic direction to ensure the Board fulfils its statutory responsibilities under the Care Act 2014 and drives meaningful improvements in safeguarding adults in Camden.

Working directly to the Independent Chair, you will be responsible for coordinating the Board’s strategic priorities, delivering key statutory functions (including Safeguarding Adults Reviews), overseeing the business cycle and governance of the Board and its subgroups, and leading high-level engagement with local and regional partners.

You will also provide line management to the Board Officer and work closely with them to devise and deliver the Board’s annual work plan. A central aspect of your role is to ensure that the voices of adults with lived experience are meaningfully embedded into the work and strategic direction of the Board.

All About You

You are an accomplished leader with a deep understanding of statutory adult safeguarding frameworks and the ability to influence across a complex multi-agency system. You combine strategic thinking with operational skill and can confidently engage with senior stakeholders, elected members, statutory partners and people with lived experience.

You will bring:

• Strong knowledge of the Care Act 2014, safeguarding adults legislation and best practice, as well as up to date policy and research understanding.
• Significant experience of leading multi-agency safeguarding partnerships, boards or equivalent.
• Proven ability to lead complex programmes, manage sensitive information, and maintain a clear focus on improving outcomes for adults with care and support needs.
• Excellent leadership, communication, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
• A values-led approach that promotes inclusion, accountability, continuous learning, transparency, and co-production.

How To Apply

To apply for this job please follow the "Apply" link. In the ‘Why you?’ section of the application you will be required to demonstrate how you meet the role criteria noted in the Job Profile under the “About You” section.

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What We Offer

At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits. From flexible working to 27 days annual leave (+ bank holidays!). We also know that a work life balance is extremely important so we also offer family leave, loan schemes and access to our incredible staff networks. We also have an incredible pensions scheme.

Visit 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details.

Inclusion and Diversity

We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.

To discover more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit https://www.camdenjobs.co.uk/inclusion-and-diversity 

Asking for Adjustments

Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at resourcing@camden.gov.uk or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG,

Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.