HSAB Business Manager

Job Title: HSAB Business Manager
Starting Salary: £46,731 progressing to £51,802 per annum
Hours: 37.0
Location: Stevenage
Contract Type: Permanent
Directorate: Childrens Services

About the team

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced manager/advanced or senior practitioner to join our business unit which plays a key role in safeguarding adults by supporting the multi-agency safeguarding arrangements in Hertfordshire. We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, and organised person, who can ensure consistent high levels of support within the business unit. You will join a friendly, dedicated, and inclusive team.

We are actively recruiting for a Business Manager to support the Safeguarding Boards Business Unit (Adults) based in Stevenage.

About the role

You will play a key role in ensuring that adults are effectively safeguarded by agencies in Hertfordshire by:

• Working with a wide variety of professionals across the different agencies in Hertfordshire who have responsibilities for safeguarding adults.
• Managing the workstreams of the Hertfordshire Safeguarding Adults Board.
• Managing and driving the work of the Board, sub-groups and safeguarding adults reviews under the Care Act 2014.
• Supporting the HSAB Independent Chair to ensure priorities are met.

Ideally you will have a broad knowledge and experience of working with adults and safeguarding.

You will be working in a fast-paced stimulating environment that would draw on and build your organisational skills, your ability to prioritise workloads in a relatively fast paced changing environment.

Your previous experience working in a collaborative team is essential in this role as together the team will work towards achieving goals and objective.

You will be leading on certain workstreams, managing an active and busy administrator, working closely with colleagues and external partners and individuals within the community.

About you

Essential:

• Knowledge of safeguarding adults and legislative knowledge of Care Act 2014.
• Knowledge of safeguarding adult's multi-agency arrangements.
• Strong organisational and administrative skills.
• Competent use of Microsoft IT packages.
• Previous recent experience of line managing staff.
• Previous recent experience of working in a collaborative team.
• Able to travel

Desirable:

• Basic financial knowledge.
• Worked within a similar environment

This job role is within the Corporate Services, level CORP12 job profile. Please locate this via:

Job profiles - Community services

To hear more about this opportunity please contact Laurence Doe laurence.doe@hertfordshire.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.

Interview Date: 16th December 2024

Benefits of working for us

How to apply

As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.

Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Safeguarding
This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.

English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.