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This permanent, full-time role requires a confident leader with experience in managing safeguarding professionals. The Senior Manager will be responsible for guiding their teams, handling challenging situations, and monitoring statutory data for both service areas. The position offers a salary range starting from £69,123 to £72,784, and emphasises the importance of collaboration, best practices, and effective communication in safeguarding adults from abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
Senior Manager - Safeguarding Adults
Northumberland County Council Adults, Ageing & Wellbeing Directorate is committed to supporting adults across the community, ensuring they live in a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect. We are dedicated to providing high-quality, compassionate services that protect the most vulnerable adults in our society.
We are looking for a highly experienced and driven Senior Manager to lead our Operational Safeguarding Adults Team and Deprivation of Liberty Teams (DoL).This position is permanent, full time and based at County Hall, Morpeth. Salary is NCC Band 13 starting from £69,123, rising to £72,784.
As the Senior Manager of the Safeguarding Adults Team, you will be expected to play a critical management and leadership role in safeguarding vulnerable adults from abuse, neglect, and exploitation. You will oversee and manage the delivery of safeguarding services, providing operational direction and support to a team of safeguarding professionals. You will work closely with the safeguarding Adults Strategic Senior Manager and with a range of external agencies in the Local Authority led Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub as well as other key stakeholders to ensure compliance with legislation, best practice, and to improve outcomes for individuals at risk. This is a challenging role, for which you will need to be able to demonstrate confidence, be able to influence others and be skilled and adept at managing difficult situations and people.
As the Senior Manager for the DoL team, you will be responsible for overseeing and managing all aspects of the DoLS process, ensuring that individuals who may be deprived of their liberty receive the necessary protections and that the local authority meets its statutory responsibilities under the Mental Capacity Act 2005. You will lead a dedicated team of highly skilled professionals, providing guidance, leadership, and operational management to ensure effective, timely, and legally compliant assessments and authorisations. The role will also include, monitoring, analysing and reporting on statutory data for both service areas.
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For further information on this position, please see the attached job description and person specification.
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