Head of Safeguarding | Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 11 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £64,455 - £74,896 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 December 2025 |
| Location: | Halifax, HX3 0PW |
| Company: | Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7586052/372-CORP1994 |
Summary
Are you an experienced senior nurse, therapist or social worker with a passion for safeguarding & a commitment to delivering high-quality care for adults & children services? If so, this is your opportunity to lead & shape the safeguarding strategy within Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.
As the Safeguarding Lead you will provide senior leadership, ensuring the highest standards of safeguarding practice across our Trust. You will work with an enthusiastic and committed team responsible for developing & implementing strategies, quality governance, & performance management to ensure safe and effective safeguarding services.
This role involves:
• Providing expert advice to ensure the safety of patients and colleagues
• Strategic Leadership – Shaping & delivering the Trust's safeguarding vision & compliance with statutory regulations.
• Quality Assurance – Ensuring safeguarding governance aligns with national standards supporting audit processes.
• Multi-Agency Collaboration – Representing the Trust at Local Safeguarding Boards and Partnerships & working closely with external stakeholders.
• Education & Training – Leading staff training & development in safeguarding best practices.
• Service Improvement – Driving continuous quality improvements to safeguarding processes & patient care.
We employ more than 6,500 colleagues who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We are proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation; listening and responding to the needs of our people - patients, colleagues and the local community.
At CHFT we have one culture of care; we care for each other in the same way as we care for our patients. As a leader, you will be part of a wider group of other CHFT people who are also working hard to be good leaders; in an organisation where colleagues are supported and valued.
We provide a range of services including community health care, urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care, sexual health and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
Main responsibilities of the post include:
• Leading on the strategic planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of innovative practice in the management of the safeguarding agenda (adults and children); to promote health and well-being and prevent adverse effects on these due to safeguarding concerns not being managed.
• Leading on the development of evidence-based Trust Safeguarding Policies & Procedures, in line with those of the Safeguarding Partnerships and Boards.
• Managing the Integrated Safeguarding Team, ensuring effective recruitment, performance management, learning and development of staff.
• Monitoring the delivery of the Safeguarding agenda whilst promptly identifying and investigating any issues, changing priorities and implementing corrective actions where necessary.
• Engaging and collaborating effectively with colleagues across health and social care and other agencies e.g. education, police. Identify concerns about health and well-being and discuss approaches available in management strategies for patients identified with safeguarding issues.
• Identifying trends in health and well-being to be able to effectively manage safeguarding resources.
• Contributing to national research and the national policy agenda within Safeguarding
• Working collaboratively with colleagues across the multiagency partnership, and where appropriate with patients and the public, to define and clarify the strategic direction of safeguarding.
• Facilitating collaboration between primary and secondary care and other agencies to improve the quality outcomes for people undergoing Safeguarding concerns.
• Managing all resources effectively.
This advert closes on Monday 24 Nov 2025