Safeguarding Team Lead
Role Overview
Lead Southern Housing’s specialist safeguarding service and help embed safeguarding practice across the organisation.
The post is described as flexible, with any office location and travel across Southern Housing regions as required.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Lead Southern Housing’s specialist safeguarding service and help embed safeguarding practice across the organisation.
The post is described as flexible, with any office location and travel across Southern Housing regions as required.
What you’ll do
- Lead and develop Safeguarding and Domestic Abuse Officers and oversee complex, high-risk cases.
- Oversee the domestic abuse portfolio and provide expert advice, guidance and professional challenge.
- Drive practice standards through supervision, quality assurance, case audits and service improvement.
- Build partnerships with local authorities, police, health partners and specialist agencies.
- Support safeguarding training, monitor compliance and performance, and contribute to organisational learning.
- Promote a culture where colleagues can identify and respond effectively to safeguarding concerns.
Essential experience
- Significant experience in a dedicated safeguarding role and managing complex adult and/or child safeguarding concerns.
- Previous line management experience, including supervision, coaching and performance management.
- Experience advising operational teams, working with multi-agency partners, and undertaking quality assurance, audits or service improvement.
- Strong analytical, decision-making, communication and partnership-working skills.
Essential knowledge
- Sound knowledge of safeguarding legislation, statutory guidance and best practice.
- Strong understanding of safeguarding thresholds, risk assessment and defensible decision-making.
- Knowledge of domestic abuse legislation, risk factors and intervention approaches.
- Understanding of professional curiosity, information sharing, multi-agency working, governance and compliance.
Selection process
- Shortlisted candidates will deliver a presentation and take part in a competency-based interview.
- Candidates will be asked to demonstrate safeguarding leadership, complex case management and team development experience.
About Southern Housing
Southern Housing describes itself as a large UK housing provider serving residents across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight and the Midlands.
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