About the Role
This is a pivotal leadership role, offering an opportunity to shape and strengthen safeguarding practice across a large and diverse diocese. You will play a key part in ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children, young people and adults, while supporting parishes, clergy and diocesan colleagues to uphold the highest safeguarding standards.
Key Duties
* Lead and manage safeguarding casework across the diocese, ensuring compliance with national Church of England safeguarding standards and statutory guidance.
* Provide line management and supervision to the team of Assistant Diocesan Safeguarding Advisers.
* Oversee triage, risk assessment and allocation of safeguarding referrals.
* Manage complex and high‑risk cases, working collaboratively with statutory agencies such as police, social care and probation services.
* Ensure high‑quality case recording, quality assurance and continuous improvement of safeguarding practices.
* Act as the Diocesan Safeguarding Officer in the absence of the Director of Safeguarding.
* Contribute to training, policy development and the promotion of a strong safeguarding culture.
About You
* Significant safeguarding casework experience and strong knowledge of legislation and best practice.
* Experience working with victims, survivors and those who pose risk, and partnering with statutory agencies.
* Proven ability to embed good safeguarding practice.
* Strong leadership, risk assessment and communication skills, and ability to manage complex cases and quality assure work while maintaining confidentiality.
* High integrity, resilience, sound judgement, reflective, collaborative and committed to equality and inclusion.
* Alignment with the values of the Church of England.
Benefits
* £49,536 per annum.
* Full‑time with flexible hours and hybrid working in Hove.
* 28 days annual leave + bank holidays and two privilege days.
* Flexi‑time and remote working policy.
* Membership of the Church Worker Pension Scheme with a 15.1% employer contribution.
* Employee Assistance Programme.
* Free parking, ride‑to‑work scheme and development opportunities.
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