Independent Chair of the City & Hackney Safeguarding Adults Board

About us

The City and Hackney Safeguarding Adults Board is recruiting to the post of Independent Chair. We are an ambitious Board working collaboratively across the City of London and London Borough of Hackney to ensure that all adults are safeguarded from abuse and neglect in a way that supports them to make choices and have control about how they live.

Although the role is being recruited through the City of London Corporation, the postholder will have reporting lines and governance to both the City of London and London Borough of Hackney, with day to day queries for the role managed by the London Borough of Hackney.

The role

Under the Care Act 2014, The City of London Corporation and the London Borough of Hackney has a duty to ensure a Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB) is in place. The selection of agencies and individual members’ needs to be guided by the need for the SAB to keep itself informed about its local community, and about any wider safeguarding issues and risks. The Independent Chair is responsible for delivering s.43 and schedule 2 of the Act which relates to how the SAB is managed and delivered.

The City and Hackney Safeguarding Adults Board (CHSAB) are looking to recruit an Independent Chair with suitable skills and experience for a critical role in promoting outstanding safeguarding adults practice in the City and Hackney. The successful candidate will provide strategic leadership and direction to ensure CHSAB effectively discharges all its functions in relevant guidance and statute, and fulfils its duties under the Care Act 2014 and objectives as set out in its safeguarding strategy.

The Board partners are keen to build on current strong foundations within the Partnership and appoint an Independent Chair to take forward the safeguarding agenda in an objective and dynamic way.

The Independent Chair has a key role to lead collaboratively, to give advice and support and also offer constructive challenge and hold partner agencies to account, ensuring that interfaces with other strategic functions are effective.

The Board is seeking a person with senior and exceptional leadership and Board and governance experience. Knowledge of Adult services and excellent communication skills are essential to effectively chair Board meetings and advise the strategic leads (Local Authority, Police and Health).

This role will be for a core requirement of 28 days per year.

The successful candidate will be appointed on a consultancy basis (outside of IR35).

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and will require an Enhanced DBS.

About you

To be considered for this fantastic opportunity, the successful candidate must hold an Academic and/or professional qualification in Social Care, Health or legal discipline of sufficient standing. You will need substantial experience of the safeguarding agenda at a strategic and operational level and have the ability and credibility to command respect across all agencies.

You will have demonstrable experience in strategic leadership and senior management in large public or independent sector organisations to effect change for adult service users. Desirable for this experience to have been in an agency which includes safeguarding adults. You will have an understanding of the operational context of the full range of safeguarding work within frontline services across a partnership. Additionally you’ll need previous experience chairing complex meetings at a senior and strategic level in an efficient, professional and effective manner. You will be self-motivated and dynamic with a keen analytical eye and the ability to assess information in order to problem solve and make informed decisions on key issues. The ideal candidate will have the ability to cultivate and maintain excellent working relationships, across multi-agency and professional boundaries, and to challenge practice effectively in a way that leads to improvement.

The successful candidate will be asked to provide a full employment history as part of the pre-employment checks.

Closing date: 12 noon on the 6th of January 2025

Interviews will be held on: TBC.

To apply for this role, please click on the apply link above. 

For any other queries regarding this role, please use the above email contact.