Safeguarding Lead

Make it happen

Family centred care

Learn, develop, grow

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

Location:

Across all 3 EACH Hospice Locations - East Anglia

Hours:

30 hours per week

This is a Permanent, Part Time vacancy that will close in 18 days at 23:59 BST.

• This is an onsite role with occasional hybrid working
• Please specify preferred EACH hospice work base location when applying

Hours:Part-time, 30 hours per week.

Contract:Permanent

At East Anglia's Children’s Hospices (EACH), we support babies, children, young people and families across East Anglia through hospice care, wellbeing services and family support. We are looking for an experienced safeguarding professional to lead and develop safeguarding practice across our organisation.

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. You will work closely with care teams, managers, volunteers and external partners to promote a culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility.

• Providing specialist safeguarding advice and support across the organisation.
• Leading safeguarding case oversight, reviews, audits and quality improvement activity.
• Developing and delivering safeguarding training for employees and volunteers.
• Supporting compliance with safeguarding legislation, guidance and regulatory requirements.
• Contributing to organisational safeguarding policies, procedures and governance reporting.
• Working with multi-agency safeguarding partnerships and external stakeholders.
• Providing strategic leadership alongside the Executive Safeguarding Lead to support continuous improvement in safeguarding practice.

We're looking for a registered health or social care professional who has substantial safeguarding experience and is confident working both strategically and operationally.

• Safeguarding Children Level 4 training.
• Current professional registration (NMC, Social Work England or HCPC).
• Experience of holding safeguarding responsibilities within a relevant 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 of delivering training, undertaking audits and producing reports.
• The ability to communicate complex information clearly and effectively with a wide range of audiences.
• Knowledge of safeguarding legislation, guidance and multi-agency working.

Closing date:1st November 2026

Interviews: 9th November 2026

At EACH, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to everyone and actively encourage applicants to ask questions,
request reasonable adjustments orhave an informal discussion
before submitting an application
.

If you’d like to find out more or make a request,
please contact the Recruitment Team by email  or phone

Free onsite parking

NHS pension - continuation if already contributing

Enhanced holiday plus holiday purchase scheme

Employee Assistance programme

Role specific training and development opportunities

Employer pension scheme (up to 7% employer contribution) inc. life assurance cover

Enhanced maternity & paternity pay

Employee health cash plan

East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) ensures the best possible quality of life and makes every moment count for children and families across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. Our family-centred approach includes specialist nursing care, symptom…