Head of Safeguarding
| Posting date: | 30 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £78,120.00 to £90,013.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £78120.00 - £90013.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 August 2025 |
| Location: | Cardiff, CF14 4HH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | H9001-25-0649 |
Summary
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click "Apply now" to view in Trac Advise the Deputy Executive Nurse Director, Executive Nurse Director and the Chief Executive on safeguarding children and adult matters to ensure the Health Board fulfils its responsibilities for safeguarding children and adults. This would include: Welsh Government guidance or legislative change relating to safeguarding children and adults Key national reviews Significant local safeguarding children and adult issues, including the findings of Child and Adult Practice Reviews, which could impact on the UHBs governance and accountability Encourage, support and influence a positive commitment to service improvement and transformation across all staff groups and services within and related to safeguarding services. Have wide-ranging relationships with senior management, clinical and non-clinical staff, independent contractors and colleagues in statutory and external organisations. Manage the Safeguarding Service budgets ensuring financial control, innovative ways of working, adjusting skill mix, budget-setting and variance analysis. Lead and manage the Corporate Safeguarding Team, ensuring the delivery of strategic corporate objectives and performance targets with regard to all aspects of safeguarding Lead the implementation of relevant safeguarding performance measures and analysis and present data from a number of databases and sources. Advise the Health Board on all aspects of safeguarding governance including risk management, research audit and setting standards and monitoring. Workload and complexity are unpredictable and there is requirement for intense concentration for analysing and processing information related to children and adults at risk of abuse and neglect and other public protection information.