Role: All Age Safeguarding Board Manager
Location: Maidenhead (1 day/week on site) – 3 days/week working on average
IR35: Inside
Rate: £525.46/day (Umbrella) MAX
Duration: 5 months initially (potential extension)
Role requirements:
• Operational experience of multi-agency safeguarding arrangements including knowledge of the various learning review processes.
• Understanding of safeguarding guidelines and legislation
• Experience of multi-professional and interagency working.
• Ability to function with a high level of autonomy, as well as ability to work collaboratively, leading where appropriate.
• Ability to drive performance improvement, using appropriate quality assurance activity.
• Ability to produce and present clear and precise reports.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills with ability to build excellent working relationships with a wide range of partners to ensure a co-ordinated approach to safeguarding.
• Experience of managing staff.
• Experience in agenda setting, report writing and producing external communications.
• High degree of IT literacy (initially operating without business support for diary, documents and website).
Job Purpose
• To provide strategic management of the multi-agency safeguarding arrangements for adults and children.
• To advise safeguarding partners on all aspects of statutory and regulatory functions for the arrangements, including regional and national engagement, as necessary.
• To manage strategic business planning processes and delivery for the partnership and oversee the operation of all associated groups.
Service Delivery Accountabilities:
• To manage the work of the multi-agency safeguarding arrangements across adults and children, including supporting the Executive Board and subgroups and directing the work of the Support Officer as required.
• To manage any Serious Case Reviews/Safeguarding Adults Reviews/Domestic Homicide Reviews required, ensuring learning is identified in a timely way and shared appropriately across the borough and East Berkshire.
• To build effective and robust relationships with adult services, children's services, health, police, probation, and other key stakeholders in order to promote improved safeguarding outcomes for local people.
• To facilitate an annual independent and objective assessment on effectiveness of the local safeguarding arrangements for all residents, including advising senior leaders on areas of success and/or concern and making recommendations to secure the highest standard of safeguarding practice.
• To represent the borough on appropriate regional and national networks for safeguarding of adults and children when agreed by the Chairs of the Safeguarding Partnership.

• To monitor and manage the partnership budget, including ensuring that Partner contributions are effectively managed and suppliers are contracted in line with appropriate policies and procedures.
Disability Confident
As a member of the disability confident scheme, CLIENT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
Armed Forces Covenant   
CLIENT is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
If you qualify for the above, please notify us on 0121 794 8181.
We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.
Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

To apply for this role please submit your latest CV or contact Aspect Resources on 0121 794 8181