Dementia Active Charity
Lead Safeguarding Trustee - Volunteer
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Lead Safeguarding Trustee - Volunteer
Dementia Active: Trustee Role – Lead Trustee for Safeguarding
About the Organisation
Dementia Active is a growing charity which opened its first centre in Banbury in 2022 and now operates four centres across North Oxfordshire. We provide essential services that support people with dementia and their families. This is your opportunity to play a vital part in shaping our future development.
Your Impact: Why This Role Matters
The role of ensuring the safety of our vulnerable members is critical—not just to protect individuals, but also to safeguard the organisation’s reputation.
Our four-hour activity sessions play a lifesaving role:
- They offer carers critical respite, supporting their mental health and well-being.
- They help prevent carers reaching the difficult decision of placing a loved one in residential care as an irreversible last resort.
Since our registration in July 2021, we have expanded significantly. We are the only provider of daily activity sessions in the Banbury area. Our need for further expansion continues to grow.
Our impact is deeply meaningful:
- We empower people to live their lives as fully as possible, helping them avoid early or unnecessary institutionalisation.
- We partner with families and carers to reduce isolation and burnout.
- We are currently the only organisation ensuring the Banbury community has accessible day-to-day, meaningful engagement with a dementia-specific support network.
Now, we welcome the expertise of a new trustee to support the charity in its continued mission to grow and make life better for people with dementia.
The Opportunity
You will have the chance to join a dynamic team during its formative years and play a pivotal role in shaping a positive, safe, and influential charity.
Who We Are Looking For
We seek a passionate and committed trustee with the following qualities and experience:
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An interest in supporting people with dementia, shaped by either:
- Personal experience (e.g., as a carer, family member, or person living with dementia)
- Professional experience (e.g., in healthcare, social care, facilitator roles)
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Safeguarding experience, preferably in a managerial or leadership capacity, including knowledge of:
- Evaluating safeguarding practices
- Supporting safeguarding training, policies, and audits
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The Role
Job Title: Lead Trustee for Safeguarding
- Working arrangement: Hybrid – meetings held in person or virtually as required, with reimbursement for mileage expenses.
Main Responsibilities
Your core focus will be:
- Overseeing safeguarding compliance and leading relevant organisational processes.
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In Depth: Your Work
The role includes both board-level leadership and organisation-wide safeguarding oversight.
Commitment
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Trustee meetings: Held every 2 months—essential for strategic decision-making.
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Initial safeguarding audit: You will conduct a detailed assessment of current practices, with results presented to the board. This will be advisory rather than mandatory.
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Ongoing advisory input: After the audit, you will provide intermittent safeguarding input based on needs as they arise.
Leadership & Oversight
As Lead Trustee for Safeguarding, you will:
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Audit and review:
- Carry out initial and annual audits of safeguarding practice.
- Present findings to the board and make recommendations.
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Policy and practice compliance:
- Collaborate closely with the Safeguarding Officer, Chair of Trustees, and CEO to ensure safeguarding policies align with mandatory and statutory requirements.
- Review safeguarding policies and procedures regularly.
- Maintain a risk register that identifies safeguarding risks and risk mitigation strategies.
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Staff and trustee safeguarding education:
- Lead safeguarding training for staff, trustees, and volunteers.
- Ensure that all trustees understand their safeguarding duties.
- Enhance induction processes to include safeguarding training.
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Safeguarding oversight and reporting:
- Monitor all safeguarding incidents, concerns, and disclosures, adhering to confidentiality protocols.
- Escalate cases as needed to either the Oxfordshire Safeguarding Adults Board or the Charity Commission if required.
- Oversee safeguarding investigations and allegations against staff or volunteers, in collaboration with leadership.
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Popular safety culture support:
- Be a supportive contact for staff and volunteers, offering safeguarding debriefs and guidance as needed.
- Attend safeguarding training events (e.g., organised by Oxfordshire Safeguarding Adults Board) and relay findings to the organisation.
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Ensuring future growth is safeguarding-compliant:
- Advise on any expansion plans to ensure high standards of safeguarding are integrated at every stage.
The Context
Sørfriendhood has shaped our philosophy—at Dementia Active, every manoeuvre is guided by the unwavering belief that personal connection and community stand side-by-side against dementia. We engage both the bodies and minds of those with dementia, creating spaces where physical support, meaningful activity, and social interaction flourish. Safeguarding these valuable relationships with both integrity and warmth holds immense importance.
Wewant a clerk who is equally invested as deeply into understanding:
What it truly means to be a person with dementia when facing ongoing trauma across society
*How advanced safeguarding sharpens our foundation quality of care after.
Why Choose This Role?
- Power to influence: help build Dementia Active into Oxfordshire’s leading provider of dementia support.
- Making a difference: extraordinarily high-satisfaction, challenging, and rewarding—impacting human lives every day.
- **Commitment to ongoing growth:**Expansion is vital to meeting demand and needs.
At Dementia Active, you truly become part of a caring community, a network with the shared ambition to respond, adapt, and deliver discreet yet deeply influential changes. Safeguarding all our clients demands not just training, but trust and empathetic investment from trusted colleagues.
Join us – If you’re called to safeguard the mental, emotional, and cognitive well-being of those FOR WHOM DEMENTIA CHANGES ALL lives, this perspective could be absolutely essential.
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