Adult Safeguarding & Risk Manager

Job Description

The Service & Team:
The Role is within Cornwall Safe and Caring Communities, Adult Social Care centralised safeguarding team, working county wide.

• Manage the Organisational Abuse and Whole Service safeguarding process.
• Provide support and guidance around allegations against people in positions of trust.
• Promote effective multi-disciplinary working together between agencies through support and challenge to partners.
• Lead on the implementation of making safeguarding personal and audit the process for evaluation.
• Implement systematic monitoring arrangements focused on core safeguarding standards and produce aggregate reports on performance and learning.
• Undertake regular thematic audits of practice and service delivery where issues are indicated through monitoring and audit, reporting findings as required.
• Support front line services to manage risk effectively and to monitor the management of risk. Use and promote evidence based practice to respond to the needs of adults at risk of neglect and abuse.
• Work with providers in raising the understanding of safeguarding processes.
• Champion best practice, supporting others through mentoring, coaching and training.
• To provide timely advice and guidance to other service areas in response to concerns about adult safeguarding in a robust manner.
• Ensure that Adults have a voice and that their views and feelings are considered when decisions are being made.

This is a public/customer‑facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to a enhanced criminal record disclosure check.

This is a full time position, 37 hours a week.

To succeed in the role as a Safeguarding Risk Manager, you will need to be compassionate about the role that a Social Worker can bring to the field of Adult Safeguarding. You will need to be an expect in this field and willing to support all practitioners across the directorate as well as partner agencies to protect Adults from harm.

Cornwall Council's ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance.

• a competitive salary.
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• a national award‑winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services

Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender reassignment status, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.