Job Description

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

Under the Care Act 2014, the Local Authority has a duty to ensure a Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB) is in place. The selection of agencies and individual members’ needs to be guided by the need for the SAB to keep itself informed about its local community, and about any wider safeguarding issues and risks. The Independent Chair is responsible for delivering S.43 and schedule 2 of the Act which relates to how the SAB is managed and delivered.

Haringey Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board are looking to recruit an Independent Chair with suitable skills and experience for a critical role in promoting outstanding safeguarding adults practice in Haringey. The successful candidate will provide strategic leadership and direction to ensure Haringey SAB effectively discharges all its functions in relevant guidance and statute and fulfils its duties under the Care Act 2014 and objectives as set out in its Safeguarding Strategy.

The Board partners are keen to build on current strong foundations of creativity and forward thinking within the Partnership and appoint an Independent Chair to take forward the safeguarding agenda in an objective and dynamic way.

The Independent Chair has a key role to lead collaboratively, to give advice and support and also offer constructive challenge and hold partner agencies to account, ensuring that interfaces with other strategic functions are effective.

The Board is seeking a person with senior and exceptional leadership and Board and governance experience. Knowledge of Adult services and excellent communication skills are essential to effectively chair Board meetings and advise the strategic leads (Local Authority, Police and Health).

This role will be for a maximum of 28 days per year.

The successful candidate may be appointed either on a directly employed contract, or on a consultancy basis (either inside or outside of IR35), dependant on individual circumstances. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and will require an Enhanced DBS.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.

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About You

To be considered for this fantastic opportunity the successful candidate must hold an academic and/or professional qualification in Social Care, Health or legal discipline of sufficient standing. You will need substantial experience of the safeguarding agenda at a strategic and operational level and have the ability and credibility to command respect across all agencies.

You will have demonstrable experience in strategic leadership and senior management in large public or independent sector organisations to effect change for adult service users. Desirable for this experience to have been in an agency which includes safeguarding adults. You will have an understanding of the operational context of the full range of safeguarding work within frontline services across a partnership. Additionally, you’ll need previous experience chairing complex meetings at a senior and strategic level in an efficient, professional and effective manner. You will be self-motivated and dynamic with a keen analytical eye and the ability to assess information in order to problem solve and make informed decisions on key issues. The ideal candidate will have the ability to cultivate and maintain excellent working relationships, across multi-agency and professional boundaries, and to challenge practice effectively in a way that leads to improvement.

If you would like to find out more about the work of the board and role of the Chair, please contact Farzad Fazilat, Board Manager on (phone number removed) or by email