Job summary
- Main area
- Safeguarding
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- 6 months (Bank assignment to the end of the 25/26 financial year)
- Hours
- Part time
- Other
- Job ref
- 195-25-290-ARH
- Employer
- South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- South Central Ambulance Service
- Town
- Bicester
- Salary
- £76,965 - £88,682 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Head of Safeguarding and Prevent - Allegations Management Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Job overview
Are you an experienced professional with expertise in safeguarding and HR investigations? We are seeking a highly skilled subject matter expert to join our team on a bank basis, providing flexible support when required.
Key Responsibilities:
- Chair safeguarding allegations against staff panels, ensuring thorough completion of risk assessments and recommendations to protect both staff and patient safety
- Monitor and report on investigation progress, advising the Trust to meet its statutory duties around safer recruitment and reporting to professional bodies, DBS, and statutory partners.
- Provide expert advice to chairs of disciplinary panels and appeals, ensuring compliance with policy and best practice.
- Act as a trusted advisor on complex cases, supporting robust decision-making and safeguarding standards.
Main duties of the job
This is a bank role, offering flexibility and the opportunity to contribute your expertise when needed. If you have a strong background in safeguarding, HR investigations, and regulatory compliance, we’d love to hear from you.
Working for our organisation
Benefits we offer:
- Full training and support when you join and ongoing throughout your employment with us.
- Holiday entitlement is 27 days rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years, plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time).
- Enrolment into the NHS Pension Scheme.
- Access to continual professional development and opportunities within SCAS and the NHS.
- Occupational Health support along with an Employee Assistance Programme.
- NHS Discounts in over 200+ stores including Holidays, Days out, Car insurance, Restaurants and Clothing.
- Staff networking and support groups.
About Us
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of emergency, urgent care and non-emergency healthcare services, along with commercial logistics services.
The Trust delivers most of these services to the populations of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire as well as non-emergency patient transport services in Sussex.
We serve a population of over 7 million and answer over 500,000 urgent calls a year. We employ 4,551 staff who, together with over 1,100 volunteers, enable us to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
In SCAS, we know that colleagues who are cared for and valued are enabled to provide the right care, first time, every time. That is why we strive to foster a culture that balances fairness, compassion, learning and accountability; a ‘just and learning culture’.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full details of the role are included in the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents.
Person specification
Skills
Desirable criteria
- Detailed knowledge of the working of safeguarding networks within the South-Central Ambulance Service area.
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Registered Paramedic, Nurse or relevant professional registration
- Master’s Degree or equivalent level of safeguarding experience
- Extensive theoretical knowledge including attendance at modular training at strategic level
- Significant and extensive experience of working at a similar level across multiple areas in safeguarding / public protection as well as PREVENT and Learning Disabilities
- Significant experience of multi-agency working at a senior level
- Specialised knowledge of safeguarding acquired through significant experience
- Experience of preparing and writing Board level reports and presentations
- Significant experience of line management, including direct or indirect line management of a whole service area
- Significant experience of sound budget management with responsibility for budgets
- Provide expert advice, specialist supervision, coaching or support, for senior staff and managers involved in complex situations, assessment and management of risk and legal proceedings. Including safeguarding allegations against staff and sexual safety concerns
- Advanced knowledge of safeguarding issues, policy and practice, including current issues
- Detailed knowledge of the working of safeguarding networks within the South-Central Ambulance Service area.
Desirable criteria
- Compliant at Level 5 training competence for safeguarding
- Ability to demonstrate sound leadership skills in complex and difficult situations and to lead and motivate a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience in managing the safeguarding education agenda
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
- Helen Young
- Job title
- Chief Nursing Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
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