Housing Safeguarding Lead

Job Title: Housing Safeguarding Lead

Location: Hybrid - WFH & North Northamptonshire Council, Bowling Green Road, Kettering, Northants NN15 7QX

Rate of Pay: Negotiable

Working Hours: Full Time - Monday to Friday - 9am-5pm

Type: Temporary role until March 2026

Opus People Solutions are working with North Northamptonshire Council to recruit for a Housing Safeguarding Lead.

To be the housing service expert and single point of contact for complex safeguarding matters, ensuring that safeguarding practises are embedded into day-to-day service delivery. This includes leading teams to coordinate appropriate support and risk management planning for those accessing services within Housing Solutions, and North Northamptonshire Council tenants.

Contribute to tenancy sustainment, prevention of homelessness and rough sleeping by ensuring that vulnerable people with complex needs are appropriately assessed and supported through joined up and proactive multi-agency support.

Provide training and briefings across the full housing service in relation to safeguarding matters to help drive forward practise improvement in this area.

Main Duties

1. Provide expert advice and lead on safeguarding matters relating to tenancy sustainment, homelessness prevention and multiple exclusion homelessness and rough sleeping, ensuring the provision of high-quality interventions and support that comply with statutory requirements and the Council''s policies and procedures.
2. Develop and deliver training to team members to ensure they are abreast of local safeguarding practises, procedures, and resources, and to provide information on legislation and best practice.
3. Develop team members to become safeguarding champions in order that safeguarding practises can be embedded in day-to-day service delivery.
4. Supervise and lead team members who are widening their skills and strengths in safeguarding matters, providing them with advice, guidance, support, and training to enable them to work proactively and collaboratively with internal teams and other services and organisations to identify and reduce risks, deliver effective and outcome focussed interventions and achieve positive results.
5. Coordinate, chair and participate in multi-agency meetings for example case conferences or Adult Risk Management (ARM) meetings and escalate cases as required for example to the ARM Oversight Panel.
6. Ensure that all meeting minutes and records and case notes are accurately recorded, appropriately stored, and case management systems are updated.
7. Build and maintain links, and work proactively and collaboratively, with internal teams and other services and organisations to improve service delivery, agree new and more innovative ways of working, ensure that vulnerable people are supported and work together to address complex cases and safeguarding concerns. This will include developing and maintaining protocols, partnership agreements, data-sharing agreements and processes / procedures with key partners.
8. Represent the Housing Solutions Service and the Council at relevant strategic meetings as required, for example Northamptonshire Safeguarding Adults Delivery Board.
9. Monitor and track performance in relation to the completion of mandatory training, timely interventions and outcomes, providing support and and/or addressing performance issues where appropriate.
10. Ensure accurate collection, analysis, and submission of data and information, preparing reports and briefings for senior management and partner agencies as required.

Person Specification

• Hold a relevant qualification (e.g. HND/NVQ Level 4) or show an equivalent capability.
• Substantial and demonstratable experience at a team leader or expert level (or similar) within a local authority, housing association or voluntary organisation
• Proven experience in delivering safeguarding practices
• Experience of working with and advocating for vulnerable adults, and knowledge of relevant safeguarding procedures relating to adults and children
• Experience of chairing and participating in multidisciplinary case conferences.
• Experience of managing, mentoring and supporting teams to deliver high-quality services.
• Knowledge of safeguarding practises and procedures

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