Job summary
- Main area
- Safeguarding
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 382-COR26-25
- Employer
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Blackpool Victoria Hospital
- Town
- Blackpool
- Salary
- £91,342 - £105,337 n/a
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Director of Safeguarding
NHS AfC: Band 8d
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
The Deputy Director of Safeguarding is a key leadership role within the Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is responsible for the operational management and strategic development of safeguarding services for both children and adults, learning disabilities, dementia and the in house ISVA/IDVA service. The post-holder will be instrumental in ensuring the Trust meets its statutory safeguarding responsibilities and provides high-quality, person-centred care to individuals at risk.
This is a key trust wide strategic role leading the Trust safeguarding agenda, ensuring that safeguarding activity across the Trust is robust and in line with legislation. This includes maintaining compliance with commissioning and partnership standards, national and local guidelines, and best practice.
The post holder will act as the lead for identified areas of safeguarding practice, supporting the changing local and national safeguarding priorities and objectives. This will include the Domestic Abuse and Prevent agenda's, ensuring the Trust complies with national, regional, and local policies and initiatives.
Main duties of the job
Reporting to the Chief Nursing, Midwifery and AHP Officer who has executive responsibility for safeguarding, the post holder will provide a dynamic and strategic leadership for safeguarding children and adults across the Trust and ensure that the Trust meets its statutory and regulatory obligations. They will ensure that the highest standards of safeguarding adults and children, including learning disability and dementia services, are delivered in line with national, regional, and local policy and guidance and will have operational oversight and management of the corporate safeguarding team. At the same time the post holder will prepare the Trust for new developments nationally and locally aiming to trailblaze new ideas and opportunities that will strengthen the Trust’s ability to safeguarding children and adults at risk.
Working for our organisation
BTH are committed to fostering a positive and inclusive work environment where every individual is respected, valued, and supported. We recognise that our greatest asset is our people, and we strive to attract and retain professionals who embody our core values. To address previous challenges and promote a culture of excellence, we are seeking individuals who align with our renewed commitment to these values:
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please review the attached Job Description and Person Specification to ensure you meet the criteria, before applying for this vacancy.
Person specification
Education and Qualification
Essential criteria
- Registered nurse and/or midwife or social worker
- First level degree or equivalent level of experience
- Masters degree in safeguarding related subject
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate teaching qualification
- Quality Service Improvement and Redesign (QSIR) training
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Expert knowledge of safeguarding adults and children matters, legislative imperatives and current developments and how these fit within the wider NHS political landscape.
- Good understanding of strategic and operational NHS issues.
- Recent and extensive clinical, managerial and leadership credibility and experience
- Recent experience of managing complex professional matters/issues
- Good knowledge and extensive recent experience of managing a budget in an NHS setting.
- Teaching experience
- Track record of achievement and personal/professional development
- Demonstrate broad clinical and leadership/management experience relevant to this post
- Recent and substantial experience in senior nursing/midwifery post(s) and/or senior post as a social worker at divisional or equivalent level within an NHS Trust
- Track record of achievement of objectives
- Experience of robust financial and other resource management
- Experience of embedding robust clinical and corporate systems at local level, specifically relevant to nursing/midwifery
- Experience of leading and implementing change
- Experience of implementing nursing/midwifery quality assurance metrics and those specific to safeguarding
- Experience of presenting at Board level
- Practical experience of one or more change management models
Desirable criteria
- Board level experience
Skills and Ability
Essential criteria
- Ability to function effectively at Trust Board and equivalent level
- Demonstrate leadership and management skills
- Ability to lead and manage complexity and unpredictability, to make difficult decisions and to solve problems
- Ability to self-start and prioritise own workload and that of others
- Ability to manage resources effectively (especially financial and human)
- Ability to work collaboratively and strategically
- Able to demonstrate whole systems thinking and analysis.
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Excellent presentation skills in both verbal and written forms
- Ability to form, develop and maintain effective working relationships.
- Highly developed problem-solving skills
- Competent with basic IT skills (word processing, spreadsheets etc)
- Good verbal and report writing skills
- Skilled negotiator
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Bridget Lees
- Job title
- Chief Nursing, AHP and Midwifery Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 953291
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