Job Description
Deputy Trust Head of Safeguarding, Children and Adults
40 Hours per week, 52 weeks per year
Salary: £55,523 - £62,867 per annum (subject to experience and qualifications)
Application Deadline is Monday 14th July
Interview Dates Thursday 24th & Friday 25th July
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
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.
• In supporting the Trust Head of Safeguarding, you will:
o Be instrumental in ensuring quality safeguarding for all our children and adults.
o 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.
o Have the opportunity to work across the Trust and beyond safeguarding and to have a
wider influence and a real chance to develop your career.
The successful candidate will:
• Have a current proven track record in safeguarding and understand the complexities around
children and adults from both an operational and strategic perspective.
• 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.
The role requires a great deal of self-management of your diary, time and travel and some evening and weekend working will be required.
There will be an expectation that the post holder will need to spend a number of nights away each
week supporting our settings. At times this can be up to three nights away depending on locality.
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; we offer competitive salaries and holiday
allowances, an auto-enrolment pension scheme with a salary sacrifice option, a health cash plan
and employee assistance programme via Medicash.
In addition, staff receive valuable training opportunities including an in-depth interactive induction
to enable our new team members to experience our Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE)
curriculum and also opportunities for further training and academic research including our own
MSc in Practical Skills Therapeutic Education.
Full details of our benefits can be viewed on
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.