Trust Deputy Head of Safeguarding

Trust Deputy Head of Safeguarding, Children and Adults

40 Hours per week, 52 weeks per year

Salary: £55,523 - £62,867 per annum - (subject to qualifications)

The post can be based at any of our Schools or Colleges in Sheffield, Birmingham,

Stourbridge and Nailsworth in Gloucestershire. There is an expectation that the post holder will travel to the other Trust provisions on a regular basis

Application Deadline: Wednesday 20th November

Interviews: Monday and Tuesday 9th and 10th December

Applications are invited for this critical role in ensuring a robust culture of safeguarding practice across the Trust, providing operational, strategic and corporate direction including complex professional advice on matters relating to safeguarding.

The successful applicant will:

• Lead on collaborative working practices across both agency and geographical boundaries, with providers of health and social care and other partner agencies

• Provide a seamless approach to safeguarding, including ensuring that national and local recommendations from emergent safeguarding work are implemented across the Trust

• Supporting the Trust Head of Safeguarding, you will be instrumental in ensuring quality safeguarding for all our children and adults.

• You will be strategic in nature, but with an operational focus, you will work closely with professionals and partner organisations, and you will be able to set the pace and tone of progress in delivering a comprehensive and seamless safeguarding function.

• You will also enjoy the opportunity to work across the Trust and beyond safeguarding and to have a wider influence and a real chance to develop your career.

For further information or to apply, please visit rmt.org/jobs

To be successful you will:

• Have a current proven track record in safeguarding and understand the complexities around children and adults from both an operational and strategic perspective.

• You should also exhibit clear evidence of interpersonal skills; a lot of the

responsibilities you will take on in this role requires an exceptional level of team effort, so you must be able to build strong working relationships with your colleagues throughout the Trust and other key stakeholders.

• You must have a demonstrable record of successful partnership with other staff in this field in order to achieve the aims of the Trust.

• Proven organisational and analytical abilities are expected.

• You should be able to combine your workload in demanding situations. No two days are the same in this role, so if you are looking for variety, this may be the post for you.

In addition, you will:

• Have a degree in education or health care or social care or related subject

• Formal qualification/ course related to specialist field of Safeguarding or equivalent experience along with safeguarding supervision training/ experience

• Safeguarding supervision training/ experience

• Have strong relationship management capability with multiple stakeholders in a diverse, complex entrepreneurial and geographical spread organisation

• Be confident to challenge the status quo and be a positive disruptor to drive

organisational behavioural change in safeguarding. Have a can do, supportive attitude underpinned by a coaching and mentoring methodology

• Need to demonstrate an absolute commitment to improving outcomes for children, young people and adults an intelligent grasp of our current operating context as a baseline for delivering a high-quality safeguarding service.

Working at Ruskin Mill Trust is incredibly rewarding and in return, we offer competitive

salaries, with progression in pay and an auto-enrolment pension scheme. In addition, staff

receive;

• A comprehensive induction, extensive training and development plan

• 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) which increases with length of service.

• Health cash plan & Employee Assistance Programme via Medicash

• Lunch provided onsite during term time.

Established in 1984, Ruskin Mill Trust is an educational charity that operates in England, Scotland and Wales. We offer exciting outdoor learning environments, utilising practical land and craft activities to support the development of work and life skills in young people with autistic spectrum conditions and other learning differences. Our research-led method, Practical Skills Therapeutic Education, is inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner, John Ruskin and William Morris. Working with hand, head, heart and place, Ruskin Mill Trust helps individuals to re-imagine their potential.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced Level Disclosure as well as a medical check, references, evidence of qualifications, plus verification of the right to work in the UK.