Safeguarding Children's Partnership Business Manager

Grade L SCP 43 £56,293- SCP 47 £60,952
Contract: 1x Permanent, 37 hours.
Essential Requirement: Enhanced DBS.
Essential Qualification: Degree or equivalent.
Interview date: Week commencing 10th December 2026.
For further information about this role, contact: Emma Ford Emma.ford@bolton.gov.uk

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

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The Role
Come and join a dynamic, ambitious and caring team at the heart of improving outcomes for children, young people and families in Bolton.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in leading and coordinating Bolton's multi-agency safeguarding arrangements at a time of significant transformation through our Families First programme.

As Safeguarding Children Partnership Business Manager, you will support statutory safeguarding partners to deliver their responsibilities, drive continuous improvement across the partnership, and ensure that children remain at the centre of everything we do.

You will be working closely with Bolton's Safeguarding Partners, leading the strategic and operational business of the Bolton Safeguarding Children Partnership (BSCP). You will help ensure the partnership has strong governance, effective scrutiny, robust assurance arrangements and a clear understanding of how well services are working together to identify need early and safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

Working across organisations and professional boundaries, you will bring together safeguarding intelligence, performance information, audit findings, practice learning and the voices of children and families to identify strengths, risks and opportunities for improvement. Your leadership and professional judgement will inform strategic decision-making, partnership priorities and system-wide improvement activity.

This role is much more than partnership administration. You will be a key driver of collaboration, learning and change across Bolton's safeguarding system, supporting partners to work together effectively.

You will lead and coordinate partnership business planning, oversee the delivery of the partnership's annual priorities, support Rapid Reviews and Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews, coordinate the multi-agency workforce development strategy and maintain strong links across domestic abuse, community safety, adult safeguarding and MAPPA arrangements.

As a senior manager within the wider children's safeguarding system, you will provide support and challenge to senior leaders across partner agencies, represent Bolton at local, regional and national forums and play a key role in ensuring the partnership is prepared for current and emerging safeguarding challenges.

If you are passionate about safeguarding, committed to partnership working and excited by the opportunity to influence strategic change and improve outcomes for children and families, we would love to hear from you.

Why Join Bolton?

• Play a leading role in Bolton's ambitious Families First transformation programme.
• Shape the future direction of safeguarding across the partnership.
• Work alongside senior leaders from Children's Services, Health, Police and partner agencies.
• Influence strategic decision-making and system-wide improvement.
• Mature our culture of learning, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Lead meaningful work that directly improves outcomes for children, young people and families.
• Be part of a supportive, innovative and values-driven leadership team.

About You
We are looking for an experienced safeguarding professional who can bring together partners around a shared vision for children and families.

You will have:

• Significant experience of leading safeguarding activity within a multi-agency environment.
• Excellent knowledge of safeguarding legislation, policy and statutory guidance.
• Experience of driving improvement through partnership working, performance analysis and learning from review activity.
• Strong leadership, influencing and relationship-building skills.
• The ability to provide constructive support and challenge to senior leaders and partner organisations.
• Experience of managing complex programmes of work and delivering successful change.
• A passion for improving outcomes for children and families through collaboration, learning and innovation.

Want to Find Out More?
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact:

Emma Ford
Emma.ford@bolton.gov.uk

If you think you could be what we're looking for, apply now with your CV and covering letter. Please demonstrate within your covering letter how you meet the requirements of the person specification giving consideration to the multi agency transformation within the Families First reforms.

About Us
This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too.
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Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) clearance - this post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (amended in 2013). Employment offers are conditional subject to satisfactory clearances. For roles where a criminal records check from the DBS is required, this includes satisfactory clearance of this check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily bar an individual from working with us. This will depend on the nature of the position and the circumstances and background of an individual’s offence/s. Information provided by you or the DBS will be dealt with in a confidential manner and in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice which can be viewed here. Bolton Council’s policy on the Employment of Ex-Offenders is available here.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.

For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk

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