Training & Support

• Deliver training to partnership agencies where required to raise understanding of good practice.
• Actively seek opportunities for learning from services to improve wider safeguarding outcomes.
• Participate in peer supervision, sharing best practice with colleagues.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

Experience & Knowledge

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in safeguarding/child protection work (preferably within statutory or multi-agency environments).
• Demonstrable experience of serious case investigations, especially in relation to inclusion reviews or child deaths.
• Familiarity with requirements for:
  • Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews (Section 11 requirements under the Children Act 2004).
  • Working Together to Safeguard Children (2018) guidance.
  • Local Safeguarding Adults Arrangements (where relevant).
• Experience of rapid report writing of high quality.
• Strong knowledge of safeguarding risks and vulnerabilities for children and young people.

Skills & Competencies

• High-level written and verbal skills for clear and coherent report writing.
• Exceptional organisational and analytical skills with the ability to synthesise complex data.
• Proficiency in undertaking child death reviews, including classifying and reporting deaths.
• Collaborative leadership skills with the ability to facilitate partnership working.
• Empathy and resilience in working with traumatic cases.
• Ability to work appropriately under pressure and manage competing priorities.

Qualifications

• No strict qualification requirement, though qualifications in social work, safeguarding-related studies, or psychology would be an advantage.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience in a leadership or managerial role within the safeguarding sector.
• Understanding of adult safeguarding frameworks and multisystem safeguarding.
• Knowledge of data analysis tools (e.g., Excel, basic SQL) to support safeguarding reporting.
• Familiarity with working under Section 11 obligations.

Informal Enquiries

For further information, contact:

• Email: john.scaysbrook@nottscc.gov.uk
• Phone: [0115 977 3853]

Key Organisation Context

‘Our Nottinghamshire Approach’

The Council adopts a strengths-based model in its safeguarding work, focused on collaboration and preventative action with children, families and partners. A brochure on the approach is available at Tea Williams’ webpage.

NSCP Structure

This role sits within the NCC Strategic Safeguarding and Independent Review team, liaising with:

• All statutory safeguarding agencies
• Partner organisations
• Independent review bodies

Key strategic partners include: 🔹 Police 🔹 Nottinghamshire County Council (NCC) 🔹 Health headed bodies 🔹 Early Help and family services

More details on the NSCP here.

Application Notes

• This is a fixed-term opportunity for 12 months.
• Existing NCC employees can apply for this role via secondment (secondment approval required from your line manager).
• All applicants will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Nottinghamshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity and is an accredited Disability Confident Leader (previously known as the Guaranteed Interview Scheme).

We encourage applicants with protected characteristics (e.g., disabilities, age, gender) to disclose information if they’d like to be considered for interview under the scheme. Simply state ‘I am a candidate under the Disability Confident scheme’ in your application.

Additional Benefits

✅ Hybrid working – balance between office and remote working. ✅ Access to support, supervision and training tailored to the role. ✅ Job share option – available for full-time posts (see council policy). ✅ Positive culture of learning with insights on best practice. ✅ Contribution to improved safeguarding for Nottinghamshire’s children.