Housing Safeguarding Lead

About the role

An exciting new role at North Northamptonshire Council within the Housing Solutions Service, the Safeguarding Lead will be the Council’s Housing safeguarding expert and our single point of contact for complex safeguarding matters, ensuring that safeguarding practises are embedded into day-to-day service delivery. This includes leading teams to coordinate appropriate support and risk management planning for those accessing services within Housing Solutions.

The role will contribute to tenancy sustainment, prevention of homelessness and rough sleeping by ensuring that vulnerable people with complex needs are appropriately assessed and supported through joined up and proactive multi-agency sup

What will you be doing?

We’re looking for a safeguarding lead to support homelessness prevention, tenancy sustainment and rough sleeping services. You’ll provide expert advice, deliver training, and develop staff to embed strong safeguarding practice across the team. The role includes chairing multi‑agency meetings, and ensuring robust case recording and data quality.

You’ll build effective partnerships, develop protocols with key partner agencies, and represent Housing at the Northamptonshire Adults Safeguarding Board. You will also monitor performance, analyse data, and contribute to improving policies, procedures, and service delivery to ensure vulnerable people receive the best possible support.

About you

You will bring strong safeguarding knowledge, with experience supporting vulnerable people facing homelessness, complex needs or multiple disadvantages. The post holder will be confident in leading others, provide training and coaching to colleagues to deliver safe, effective and person‑centred practice.

We are looking for someone highly skilled at building partnerships, chairing multi‑agency meetings and navigating challenging or high‑risk situations with confidence and professionalism. The successful candidate will need to be highly organised and manage accurate records, analyse data and contribute to continuous service improvement. Most importantly you must be proactive, collaborative and passionate about making a positive difference for those most at risk.

Our Benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

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The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)