Safeguarding Lead

🌟 Safeguarding Lead | East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH)

📍 EACH Hospice Based – Milton, Norwich, or Ipswich

• Please specify preferred EACH hospice work base location when applying

⏰ Part-Time | 30 hours per week

🏠 Hospice Based | Occasional hybrid working

💼 Permanent

💰 £57,528 - £64,750 FTE per annum, experience dependent

Join East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH) and help lead and develop safeguarding practice across our organisation, supporting babies, children, young people and their families across East Anglia.

As Safeguarding Lead , you will provide organisation-wide leadership, advice and oversight to ensure safeguarding arrangements for children, young people and adults at risk remain effective, compliant and centred on best practice. Working closely with care teams, managers, volunteers and external partners, you will support a culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility.

Key Responsibilities

✅ Provide specialist safeguarding advice and support across the organisation

✅ Lead safeguarding case oversight, reviews, audits and quality improvement activity

✅ Develop and deliver safeguarding training for employees and volunteers

✅ Support compliance with safeguarding legislation, guidance and regulatory requirements

✅ Contribute to organisational safeguarding policies, procedures and governance reporting

✅ Work with multi-agency safeguarding partnerships and external stakeholders

✅ Provide strategic leadership alongside the Executive Safeguarding Lead to support continuous improvement in safeguarding practice

About You

✔ Safeguarding Children Level 4 trained

✔ Current NMC, Social Work England or HCPC registration

✔ Experience of holding safeguarding responsibilities within a health or social care setting

✔ Experience of developing or leading safeguarding services and initiatives

✔ Experience of working with babies, children, young people and families with complex needs

✔ Experience delivering training, undertaking audits and producing reports

✔ Knowledge of safeguarding legislation, guidance and multi-agency working

✔ Ability to communicate information clearly with a range of audiences

📅 Closing Date: 01/11/2026

🗓️ Interviews: 09/11/2026