Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Adults Board Business Manager

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

About the role

Are you passionate about improving safeguarding outcomes and making a real difference across a whole system? We're looking for an experienced and collaborative leader to manage the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB).

This is a unique opportunity to work at the heart of adult safeguarding, bringing together partners from local government, health, police, housing, probation and the voluntary sector to drive improvement, learning and accountability. You'll support the Independent Chair, lead the Board's business programme and help ensure local safeguarding arrangements are effective, ambitious and focused on the people we support.

For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Fran Marshall, Service Director Quality Assurance, Practice and Safeguarding, at fran.marshall@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.

Interviews will be held in person on 23 and 30 November.

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

What will you be doing?

• Leading the day-to-day delivery of the Safeguarding Adults Board's work programme.
• Supporting the Independent Chair and providing expert safeguarding advice to senior partners.
• Coordinating multi-agency audits, performance reporting and quality assurance activity.
• Overseeing Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SARs) and ensuring learning leads to real improvement.
• Building strong partnerships across agencies and sectors.
• Managing the Board's budget, communications and business support staff.
• Ensuring the voices of people with lived experience influence safeguarding priorities and practice.

About you

You'll be a strategic thinker with excellent partnership, communication and influencing skills. You will have experience of safeguarding, governance, quality assurance or system leadership, and be confident working with senior leaders across organisational boundaries.

We're looking for someone who can:

• Turn learning and insight into action.
• Analyse complex information and provide clear recommendations.
• Lead, support and challenge partners to improve outcomes.
• Build effective relationships across a complex system.
• Keep the experiences of adults at risk at the centre of everything they do.

A relevant degree-level qualification is essential. Experience in safeguarding, social care, health, governance or a related field would be highly valued. We welcome applications from candidates with transferable leadership, partnership and improvement experience, even if they haven't worked within a Safeguarding Adults Board before

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers