Safeguarding Education Team Manager

What will you be doing?

• Provide high quality safeguarding advice and support
• Foster great professional relationships across schools and social care and other agencies
• Gather and present complex information to both individuals and groups in a way they will understand
• Follow procedures and practice while working independently
• Deliver targeted safeguarding training to Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs), school staff and other multi agency colleagues
• Represent the service at multi agency meetings
• Prepare comprehensive reports for diverse audiences
• Work with partners / other services to address a range of safeguarding related issues through conferences and network meetings e.g. neglect and child exploitation, in order to reduce the issues that lead to increased safeguarding concerns.

About you

You will have:     

• Educated to Degree level with a Social Work/Teaching Qualification or other relevant professional qualification
• You will be an experienced social worker, teacher or person with a similar relevant degree/professional qualification who has a strong background in schools, education or children’s social care.
• You will have a detailed knowledge of working with schools and education colleagues as well as the interface between education and social care professionals. Some of your key skills will lie in developing great partnership relationships.
• You will have extensive knowledge and experience of safeguarding children.

Interviews will be held on Wednesday 25 February 2026.

If you have any questions relating to this role please email: Debbie.Carrie@westnorthants.gov.uk 

Our benefits

You can also see our full list of employee benefits on our careers site here: Why you should work for us | West Northamptonshire Council

About us

At West Northants Council, it’s about our people. People who thrive with ambition, bubble with new ideas, demand better ways of working, caring about every detail, and who never shy away from a challenge. Our culture is a gateway for new experiences. A place to forge new opportunities. To empower you in your career and unite you with like-minded people.

Our vision is ‘to make West Northants a great place to live, work, visit and thrive’. We truly stand by this and work hard every day to make this a reality. Our corporate values, THRIVE, stand for: Trust, High Performance, Respect, Innovate and Empower, they underpin everything we do and how we deliver services.  

We are committed to ensuring diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion is woven into the fabric of WNC and everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and maximize their full potential.  We are a disability confident employer, a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and a Care Leaver Covenant partner

The following film was created by us to communicate our intentions - watch WNC colleagues explain what DEI means to us.

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