Safeguarding Manager

**Job Title**:Safeguarding Manager

**Location**:Home based with occasional travel throughout the UK

**Salary**:up to £43,841 depending on experience

**Contract Type**:Permanent

**Hours**:Full time
- Are you passionate about Safeguarding? The person colleagues come to for support? Understand where we can improve and can drive change forward? Want to be at the heart of a new service?_
- Anchor are looking for a Safeguarding Manager to be a key member of the Housing Operations Team. This is an exciting opportunity that will put you at heart of safeguarding work within the brand new Tenancy Sustainment Service_

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need. Home based or working from one of our key locations if you prefer, we have flexible working options and great rewards.

You will work alongside our Safeguarding leads within Care to drive improvements in our Housing Operations.

With support from the management team we are looking for someone who is comfortable building strategy and assurance frameworks and is a skilled and effective communicator and influencer. You will be able to offer guidance on person-centred support: workingwith residents, carers and surrounding communities, and enabling people to make their own decisions about safety. The challenge lies in having a strong grasp of legal and statutory requirements around safeguarding, while adopting a creative, customised andsolution-focused approach.

**A bit about you**

This is a key role for Anchor and we’d like our new Safeguarding Manager to have:

- A Housing Qualification / Social Work / or equivalent experience.
- A deep understanding of the safeguarding process within housing and ability to interpret, understand and appropriately communicate the regulatory requirements.
- Understanding of quality assurance processes
- Ability to constructively challenge the status quo
- Bring a learning approach to services, identifying and implementing good practice.
- Exceptional people management skills and experience of managing systems

**Anchor - a great place to work**

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in trainingand development and improved facilities.

**A rewarding environment**

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

**Health & happiness**
- Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
- Mental health support
- Flexible working options

**Finance**
- Pension plan - contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
- Quick and easy pension transfer service
- Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
- Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more

**Career**
- Ongoing personal and professional development programme
- Leadership Pathways online learning resources
- Career progression and promotion opportunities

**Celebrating diversity, celebrating you**

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members. We also have an InclusiveAmbassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a member of Inclusive Employers, a Stonewall Diversity Champion and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant and HouseProud Pledge schemes.