Safeguarding Lead
| Company: | East Anglia's Children's Hospices |
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| Salary: | £57,528 to £64,750 a year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part-time |
| Location: | Milton, CB24 6AB |
| Working pattern: | On-site |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Posting date: | 13 Oct 2026 |
| Closing date: | 1 Nov 2026 |
Summary
EACH Hospice Based – Milton, Norwich or Ipswich
• This is an onsite role with occasional hybrid working
• Please specify preferred EACH hospice work base location when applying
Part-Time, 30 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £57,528 - £64,750 FTE per annum, experience dependent
Comprehensive range of benefits:
• Free onsite parking & Subsidised meals
• Enhanced Annual leave Entitlement - 27 days + 8 UK Bank Holidays
• Additional holiday purchase scheme
• Employee health cash plan & wellbeing support schemes
• AVIVA pension package – up to 7% Employer Contribution inc Life Assurance
• NHS pension - continuation of if already contributing
• Free Eye Tests & Cycle to work scheme
At East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH), we support babies, children, young people and families across East Anglia through hospice care, wellbeing services and family support. We are looking for an experienced safeguarding professional to lead and develop safeguarding practice across our organisation.
As Safeguarding Lead, you will provide organisation-wide leadership, advice and oversight to ensure safeguarding arrangements for children, young people and adults at risk remain effective, compliant and centred on best practice. You will work closely with care teams, managers, volunteers and external partners to promote a culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility.
The role includes:
• Providing specialist safeguarding advice and support across the organisation.
• Leading safeguarding case oversight, reviews, audits and quality improvement activity.
• Developing and delivering safeguarding training for employees and volunteers.
• Supporting compliance with safeguarding legislation, guidance and regulatory requirements.
• Contributing to organisational safeguarding policies, procedures and governance reporting.
• Working with multi-agency safeguarding partnerships and external stakeholders.
• Providing strategic leadership alongside the Executive Safeguarding Lead to support continuous improvement in safeguarding practice.
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