Number of Vacancies: 0 Time Type: Full time Worker Type: Regular Proposed Interview Date: Thursday, July 16, 2026 Hours of Work: 37 Hiring Manager: Lara Davidson Contact Number: 01482 616106 Job Description Summary: This is a Full Time, Permanent Position. This is an excellent opportunity for a driven and dedicated professional to join the Hull Safeguarding Children Partnership (HSCP) at a pivotal time. Hull is supported by strong, well-established multi-agency partnerships working collaboratively to safeguard children, young people and their families, underpinned by a shared commitment to continuous improvement and achieving positive outcomes. Working closely with the Head of Safeguarding Partnerships, you will play a key role in strengthening and developing safeguarding practice, under the Hull Safeguarding Children Partnership (HSCP) arrangements. You will support the delivery of HSCP priorities, driving forward improvement activity and ensuring that learning informs practice across all agencies. A central aspect of the role will be building and maintaining strong, effective relationships with partners and stakeholders across the HSCP. You will actively support activity under the HSCP structure, to ensure that all organisations involved in safeguarding are fully engaged, working collaboratively, and contributing to the shared goal of keeping children and young people safe. The successful candidate will provide professional support, information and challenge to colleagues across the partnership, ensuring that the voices and experiences of children, young people and families are heard and used to influence developments and improvements. You will play an integral role in ensuring that information is effectively shared across the partnership, with a clear emphasis on accuracy, relevance and accessibility for all agencies involved in safeguarding children and young people. Strong organisational and coordination skills will be essential, enabling you to manage competing priorities, support the delivery of partnership work programmes and monitor progress against agreed objectives. The role will involve representing HSCP at regional and national multi-agency forums, contributing to the continuous development of safeguarding practice by ensuring that emerging best practice, policy developments and research are effectively disseminated and embedded locally. You will bring a strong foundation of safeguarding expertise, including a sound understanding of safeguarding children legislation and statutory guidance such as Working Together to Safeguard Children 2026. You will demonstrate proven experience of working collaboratively within multi-agency environments, building and maintaining effective relationships with statutory and voluntary sector partners. Highly developed communication skills are important for this role, with the ability to convey complex information clearly and appropriately to a range of audiences. Alongside this, you will possess strong analytical capability, enabling you to interpret data, identify key themes and trends, and contribute to the development of high-quality reports, audits and improvement activity. A high level of attention to detail is essential, particularly in the production of accurate reports and documentation to support partnership governance. You will also provide professional consultation and guidance to practitioners, supporting the continuous improvement of safeguarding practice, policy and procedure across the Hull Safeguarding Children Partnership. If you are passionate about safeguarding, thrive in partnership environments, and are committed to making a difference, we would welcome your application. If the postholder requires a Standard or Enhanced DBS disclosure the candidate is required to declare full details of everything on their criminal record unless the conviction/s and/or caution/s are considered “protected” in line with filtering rules for DBS checks. If you would like to discuss this role further you are welcome to contact Lara Davidson (Head of Hull Safeguarding Partnerships) on 07922 420324 or lara.davidson@hullcc.gov.uk. Please note that the closing date for submitting applications for this role is midnight on Sunday 28th June 2026. ROLE AND PURPOSE To support the coordination, delivery and implementation of the Hull Safeguarding Children Partnership (HSCP) work programme, ensuring alignment with statutory legislation and locally agreed priorities set by the HSCP Executive Leads. The role will work in close collaboration with all relevant safeguarding agencies, and the Head of Hull Safeguarding Partnerships, to drive forward partnership activity, and contribute to the effective functioning of the Hull Safeguarding Children Partnership. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES: 1 Strategy – Supports the HSCP improvement activity through acting as a representative at regional and national multi-agency stakeholder groups, ensuring that knowledge is continually updated in relation to emerging best practice, new policy and relevant research. Analyses themes and trends from audit and other learning activity and supports with sharing this across the partnership to improve practice. Provides professional practice advice, guidance and support to partners to contribute to the development of services which are effective in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in Hull. Uses professional knowledge and expertise to build up and apply an advanced safeguarding children 'knowledge base' relating to defined user groups, services, policies and professional standards. Provides training, consultation, coaching and detailed guidance to practitioners across the partnership on safeguarding practice, policies and procedures. 2 Customer Focus - Develops effective working relationships with colleagues across the partnership to ensure that the voices and experiences of children, young people and families are heard and used to influence developments and improvements across the partnership. Develops and maintains effective working relationships with all stakeholders across the partnership, so that all those with a role in keeping children safe are included. Supports with ensuring that information is effectively shared across the partnership and that this is relevant, useful and informative. This includes communication cascaded through the HSCP website and twitter. Liaises with stakeholders on the development and provision of relevant, accessible and impactful multi-agency training. Provides professional support, information and challenge to colleagues across the partnership, in the best interests of children. 3 Performance Management - Contributes to the ongoing assessment of the effectiveness of local safeguarding arrangements by supporting the maintainence of relevant 'performance information' (including data, quality indicators, outcomes of inspection, complaints, the views of children and young people and relevant comparator information).Assists the partnership to identify and implement improvement actions resulting from learning and helps monitor the impact of those actions in keeping children safe.Actively supports with Hull Safeguarding Partnership auditing activity (including S11 audits) to ensure that what is learnt is used to improve services to children and families.Assists the Hull Safeguarding Children Partnership to undertake Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews and Local Learning Reviews and the disemintaion of learning from these.Works closely with the HSCP manager and HSCP subgroup chairs to support the subgroup work within the HSCP. 4 Leadership - Ensures that the HSCP responds in a timely and effective manner to government legislation, guidance and regulation and assesses the impact on local policy, procedures and practice. Assists with the planning and development of integrated and early help services for children and young people, ensuring that safeguarding is embedded into all service provision.Represents the HSCP at a formal level, locally, regionally and nationally, in contributing towards the development and implementation of inter-agency policies, plans and strategies. 5 Statutory Obligations – Provides professional practice advice and support to ensure that HSCP fulfils its statutory obligations under ‘Working Together 2018’. NC4714.Hull Safeguarding Children Partnership Senior Safeguarding Officer.docx Compensation Grades: GRADES 10. Pay Ranges: £45,091.00 - £48,226.00 Job Classifications: 3- Not Politically Restricted - Designated As Not Politically Sensitive (Politically Restricted Posts), 5- Enhanced & Childrens Barring List - (Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)), Casual - (Travel Allowance Policy), No - (Childcare Disqualification Requirement), No - (Statutory Post), OSP - Other Support Staff (School WorkForce Census) Benefits of Working of Hull City Council: - A competitive salary - An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) - Initially 23 days annual leave depending on length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year, and three additional days off, one in May/August and one during the Christmas/New year period - Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods - Supportive and forward-thinking culture - Great career development opportunities Please ensure that you complete and submit your application by midnight prior to the closing date. Please ensure that your application demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria against the person specification as listed in the job description. We are committed to increasing the diversity, equality, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage. We reserve the right to amend the dates associated with this advert, which may include closing the advert early where required. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. Online searches, including social media, may be carried out as part of the recruitment process.