Hove (On-Site)
Permanent, Part time
No DBS check required
£41,418 - £44,428
20.5 hours
Job introduction
Are you passionate about safeguarding and supporting adults from diverse backgrounds to access safeguarding support and services? Are you committed to supporting our agency partners to develop a strong understanding of the safeguarding responses that adult social care can provide? Do you have a professional qualification in social work?
If so, our exciting new post working alongside our Head of Adult Safeguarding to increase our safeguarding development offer may be of interest to you.
For an informal conversation to discuss the role please contact Katherine Taylor-Birnie Head of Adult Safeguarding on 07900 705269.
We have one part time post available (20.5 hours at M10), which is a hybrid role based both within our offices and home working, with a commitment to reflective supervision and ensuring your learning and development needs to provide for the post are well supported.
£22,947 - £24,609 for 20.5 hours based on full time annual salary of £41,418 - £44,428
Interview date: TBC
About the role
In Adult Social Care, we passionately believe in working with people to support their safeguarding outcomes and in working jointly with our partners to develop and improve the safeguarding partnership we provide together across the city. We are committed to supporting our partners to develop a strong understanding of the safeguarding responses that adult social care provides and how to enable people to access these in line with our Care Act duties.
This new role of Safeguarding Development Officer has been developed to increase our safeguarding development offer and sits within the Resources Safeguarding and Performance area of Housing Care and Wellbeing directorate.
You will be working directly alongside the Head of Adult Safeguarding to develop this innovative new role, supporting a wide range of strategic tasks and projects working to an established safeguarding development service plan. Tasks will include co working on directorate project work, gathering information from a wide range of sources, providing analysis of this to form evidence based conclusions. You will take part in multi agency audits, facilitating group discussions and forming recommendations regarding future actions and improvements. You will support the work of the Sussex wide Safeguarding Adults Policy and Procedures group co writing chapters and reviewing content. You will support the Head of Safeguarding and work with other directorate colleagues in considering Safeguarding Adults Review learning and provision of learning opportunities. You will create and sustain opportunities to work with our partners to encourage a clear understanding of the work of adult social care, of our safeguarding duties under the Care Act and our offer to the community, making opportunities for educational support in this area.
You will be working with a diverse range of stakeholders including internal colleagues and external partners including the Safeguarding Adults Board and the Safeguarding procedures group.
You will be someone who
- Has a relevant qualification in social work
- has well established safeguarding adults experience and expertise
- is passionate about good quality person-centred safeguarding multi agency practice and assurance
- has a strong interest and commitment in developing and maintaining significant strategic partnership working
You will have working knowledge of relevant national and local policy, statutory guidance and legislation in relation to safeguarding adults and provision of services and of the role and statutory responsibilities of the Safeguarding Adults Board
You will benefit from regular reflective supervision and support, the opportunity to enable your learning and development needs and creativity taking forward a new role in the directorate. You will have the opportunity to make and sustain many working relationships with internal and external partners participating in safeguarding development work on a strategic level making a meaningful difference to the wider system.
If you are keen to contribute to safeguarding development in Brighton and Hove and across Sussex, we would love to hear from you.
Please read our Apply for a job at the council https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/jobs/council-jobs/apply-job-councilpages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.
As part of your application, you will need to complete your education and work history and provide answers to some shortlisting questions. Your answers to the shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/jobs/council-jobs/shortlisting-questions-guidance as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.
Additional information
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.
Part office / part home – hybrid - We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining.
*For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us (brighton-hove.gov.uk)
Company information
Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.
Encouraging a diverse workforce
Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.
Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).