Business & Development Manager - Luton Safeguarding Adults Board (LSAB)
19 days left to apply
Town Hall (On-Site)
Permanent
51802 - 54924 GBP / year
37 Hours Per Week
- Job number
- LBC03925
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Posting End Date
- 30 June 2025
- Job Area
- Adult Social Care
About the job
Salary: £51,802 - £54,924 a year plus £3,203 car benefit allowance
Hours per week: 37
Contract type: Permanent
Luton Safeguarding Adults Board (LSAB) is looking for a Business Development Manager to play a pivotal role in shaping, supporting, and driving forward the Board’s priorities and long-term vision.
This is a unique opportunity to work at the heart of a multi-agency safeguarding system, where your leadership will directly contribute to improved outcomes and protections for vulnerable adults across Luton.
As Business Development Manager, you will be responsible for driving the business priorities, responsibilities, and ongoing development of LSAB. Through strategic leadership of multi-layered workstreams and effective coordination with key partners, you’ll ensure the strength and effectiveness of inter-agency working within the local adult safeguarding system.
You will:
- Lead the delivery of the Board’s business plan, ensuring alignment with strategic safeguarding priorities and emerging local and national developments.
- Promote and support LSAB’s role as an independent body, enabling it to both support and challenge partners in fulfilling their statutory responsibilities under the Care Act 2014 and related guidance.
- Work closely with the LSAB Independent Chair, ensuring that the operational and strategic functions of the Board run in tandem, supporting positive outcomes for adults at risk.
- Coordinate subgroups and task-and-finish groups, ensuring that workstreams are focused, efficient, and collaborative.
- Support high standards of reporting, data analysis, and communications, ensuring transparency, accountability, and stakeholder engagement.
About you
You will bring a wealth of experience and insight from working in a management or lead clinical/professional role within an organisation that holds adult safeguarding responsibilities. Your background includes proven success in managing teams and individuals, driving performance, and embedding quality assurance processes to ensure continuous improvement.
You’ll have significant experience in interagency working and will be comfortable representing your organisation across a variety of forums. Your work to date will demonstrate a strong track record of partnership working across statutory, voluntary, and community sectors. You will have the ability to build meaningful relationships, negotiate effectively, and influence decision-making at senior and executive levels, including with Board members, senior managers, and elected officials.
Your project and performance management skills will allow you to coordinate complex workstreams, establish shared goals, and contribute to a clear and coherent strategic direction for the Luton Safeguarding Adults Board and the wider safeguarding system.
Importantly, you’ll be committed to inclusivity and engagement—working collaboratively with communities, people with lived experience, and voluntary organisations to ensure safeguarding planning and practice reflect the needs and voices of those we serve.
About us
Our ambitious Luton 2040 Vision – that no-one in Luton will have to live in poverty – is at the heart of everything we do. We recognise that our people are remarkable, talented, committed and passionate about serving our residents.
The people of Luton depend heavily on this council – and that means our workforce! Are you ready to realise the remarkable and help us deliver our vision?
We welcome applications from all sections of the community and are committed to developing a workforce that reflects the diversity of our borough
Application process
Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare all unspent cautions and convictions; and also any adult cautions (simple or conditional), and spent convictions that are not protected as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020). A person’s criminal record will not in itself prevent a person from being appointed to this post. Applicants will not be refused posts because of offences which are not relevant to, and do not place them at or make them a risk in, the role for which they are applying. However in the event of the employment being taken up, any failure to disclose such offence, as detailed above, will result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the Authority.
Additional information
We offer a range of excellent staff benefits which include:
- From 25 to 32 days’ annual leave: linked to length of service and grade
- Buying annual leave scheme: buy up to 20 days additional annual leave
- Career Pathways: step up in your career or move into a specialist area
- Pension scheme: with generous employer contributions of up to 20.2 per cent (at July 2023) and 3x salary death in service grant
- Generous relocation package: up to £8,000 (subject to eligibility)
- Employee Assistance Programme: a free, 24/7 confidential counselling and wellbeing support service available to all employees, their partner or spouse and dependent children over 16 still living at home
- Work/life balance: flexible working options including working from home where possible. We welcome requests for flexible working arrangements including part-time hours and alternative working patterns
- Training and support: unlimited access to development courses, mentoring and support and clear career pathways
- Staff offers: includes discounts on your MOT, gym and fitness, restaurants and salons
- Arriva Travel Club: great value savings on local bus travel
- Friday Funday Socials - One Friday every 2 months where we encourage our staff to get together to socialise after work