HSCP SENIOR SAFEGUARDING OFFICER - FIXED TERM

Opportunity

Excellent communication skills, and maintaining effective working relationships with stakeholders across Hull, are imperative to ensuring an inclusive…

Description:

Reference


HUL/25/0291


Full Time Equivalent Salary (based on a 37 hour working week)


£43693 - £46731


Occupational group


Care/Social Work - Children's


Job term


Full Time


Appointment type


Fixed Term


Hours


37


Division


Children and Family Services - Directorate


Closing Date


29 June 2025


Proposed Shortlisting Date


01 July 2025


Proposed Interview Date


11 July 2025


Place of work


33 Witham, Hull HU9 1DB


For an informal discussion please contact


Lara Davidson - Head of Safeguarding Partnerships


Contact telephone


07922 420 324







Fixed term for 12-month period due to funding.
Are you passionate about working in partnership to support high quality safeguarding arrangements for children and their family networks in Hull?
A rare opportunity has arisen for a motivated individual to join the Hull Safeguarding Children Partnership (HSCP) as a Senior Safeguarding Officer. The position is for a 12-month fixed term period.
This is an exciting time to join the Hull Safeguarding Children Partnership as we continue to drive forward our agreed priorities, including supporting with the implementation of a whole-system approach to transforming our response to supporting children, as described within the Families First Partnership Programme.
We are excited about the opportunities that this will bring, to support children and young people to thrive within their family networks, through receiving the right support, at the right time.
Across Hull, strong partnership relationships exist between agencies who have a role in safeguarding, with a proactive commitment and motivation to continually improve. The HSCP Senior Safeguarding Officer role is pivotal in working closely with colleagues to strengthen and further develop safeguarding activity taking place across the partnership. Excellent communication skills, and maintaining effective working relationships with stakeholders across Hull, are imperative to ensuring an inclusive collaborative approach to improving the lives of children and their families.
Your role will include acting as a representative at multi-agency stakeholder groups, ensuring that your knowledge is continually updated and shared across the partnership in relation to emerging best practice, new policy and relevant research. You will support with quality assurance activity, including developing and sharing learning across the partnership to improve practice and provide consultation, coaching and detailed guidance to practitioners on safeguarding practice, policies and procedures.
The successful candidate will have significant direct experience of safeguarding children, a good understanding of safeguarding practice and legislation and the ability to analyse themes and trends from audit and other learning activity.
If you are committed to working in collaboration with statutory partners and relevant agencies across Hull, to continually improve outcomes for children and their family networks, then we look forward to hearing from you.
If you would like to discuss this post further, or require any additional information, please contact Lara Davidson (Head of Hull Safeguarding Partnerships (Hull Safeguarding Children Partnership and Hull Safeguarding Adult Partnership Board) on 07922 420 324 or email lara.davidson@hullcc.gov.uk
Please ensure that your application demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria against the person specification as listed in the job description.


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Please ensure that you complete and submit your application by midnight on the closing date.
We are committed to increasing the diversity, equity, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.
We reserve the right to amend the dates associated with this advert, which may include closing the advert early where required.
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
Any offer of employment to the above post will be subject to receipt of a satisfactory Enhanced & Childrens Barring List Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service.
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