We are seeking an experienced and passionate Safeguarding Manager to lead and strengthen safeguarding practice across our organisation.
This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in ensuring that children, young people and adults at risk are protected, supported and empowered through robust safeguarding processes, effective case oversight and a culture of continuous learning.
Working closely with senior leaders, managers and safeguarding representatives, you will provide both strategic leadership and operational expertise, ensuring safeguarding remains at the heart of everything we do.
As our Safeguarding Manager, you will be the organisation’s operational lead for safeguarding, providing expert advice and oversight across a wide range of services including housing, counselling, helpline, outreach, retail, volunteer programmes and national office functions.
You will:
- Lead safeguarding practice across the organisation.
- Review and oversee safeguarding concerns and complex cases.
- Line manage and develop Safeguarding Representatives.
- Monitor safeguarding quality, compliance and organisational risk.
- Produce safeguarding reports and assurance information for senior leaders and trustees.
- Lead safeguarding audits, reviews and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Oversee the effective use of our safeguarding case management system.
- Develop and deliver safeguarding training across the organisation.
- Build strong relationships with statutory and voluntary sector safeguarding partners.
- Ensure policies, procedures and practice remain aligned to current legislation and best practice.
About You
We’re looking for someone with significant safeguarding experience who can confidently provide leadership, challenge and support across a diverse organisation.
You will have:
Essential
- Significant experience managing safeguarding concerns involving children and/or adults at risk.
- Experience supervising safeguarding practitioners or safeguarding leads.
- Strong knowledge of UK safeguarding legislation and multi-agency safeguarding processes.
- Experience developing safeguarding policies and procedures.
- Experience delivering safeguarding training.
- Experience producing reports and presenting information to senior stakeholders.
- Excellent judgement and decision-making skills.
- Strong analytical and organisational abilities.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- The ability to influence, coach and support others.
- A relevant professional qualification or substantial equivalent safeguarding experience.
- Safeguarding Level 3 qualification.
Desirable
- Experience within supported housing, health, social care, charity or voluntary sector settings.
- Experience using electronic safeguarding case management systems.
- Advanced safeguarding qualification (Level 4/5 or equivalent).
- Safeguarding Trainer qualification.
- Management qualification.
About Life:
Life is a national pregnancy support charity that helps over 60,000 people a year. Through our services, we help people – whoever they are – to meet pregnancy or pregnancy loss with courage and dignity so they can flourish.
Our services include:
- Supported housing and community support
- Counselling and skilled listening
- Free pregnancy tests and baby supplies
Our values
All our work is underpinned by the following universal human values:
- Humanity – All people are special and equal
- Solidarity – We’re with you and for you
- Community – We’re better together
- Charity – Doing good for one another
- Common good – Building a better world
Information about the role:
For further information, please see the attached job description on our website.
Salary: £32,000 per annum for 28 hours
Hours: 28 hours per week
Location: Hybrid/Home with Extensive Travel; please note, the individual is required to live within a 25 mile radius of Oxford
Benefits:
At Life we are passionate about providing our employees with a supportive and engaging environment. As well as ongoing development and training, we offer our:
- Generous holiday allowance, starting at 25 days per year, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time hours)
- Birthday Leave (applicable after 1 years service)
- Extra annual leave for long term service
- Company Pension Scheme
- Signed member of the Menopause Workplace Pledge
Safeguarding and Equality:
Life is committed to protecting all staff, volunteers and service users from harm of any kind. Life expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct.
We are committed to ensuring diversity and equality within our organisation by encouraging applications from all backgrounds.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks. Life takes its obligation to protect the rights of children and vulnerable people very seriously; therefore, the successful candidate for this post will be also subject to extensive background checking, including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS) which is paid for by the Charity.
Pay: £32,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Sick pay
Licence/Certification:
- Driving Licence (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Oxford (Oxfordshire)
