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Location

Surrey | United Kingdom

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Must have a degree or equivalent qualification and management experience.
HWA- ASC Commissioning
£550 day rate - 6 month contract -

This is a strategic leadership role for Safeguarding within Adult Social Care at Surrey County Council. The key deliverables of the role include:
• Ensuring that Surrey County Council, Adult Social Care is compliant with national statute, regulation and guidance with regard to safeguarding and associated practice.
• Ensuring that there are clear lines of communication between the work of Surrey County Council's Children Schools and Families directorate and the Surrey Safeguarding Children Partnership.
• Providing qualitative and quantitative data as and when required to inform managers with regard to performance internally and as a comparator to local, regional and national performance.
• Ensuring that performance in safeguarding is rated as good when compared with similar authorities.
• Identifying areas of weak practice, knowledge and understanding and advising on strategies to improve.
• Attending regional Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) networking events and contributing, where the opportunity arises, to any potential developments in practice at local, regional and national level.
• Attending Surrey Safeguarding Adults Board (SSAB) and contributing to the work of the sub-groups to include chairing.
• Providing training and presentations to SCC staff and partner agencies.
• Assisting Surrey Safeguarding Adults Board in the implementation of its strategic plan.
• Providing specialist supervision to locality based Safeguarding Advisors.
• To understand and apply the Council’s duties and responsibilities for safeguarding adults with care and support needs; preventing and detecting crime, including countering terrorism and reducing risks of radicalisation; safeguarding children and young people

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