All Age Safeguarding Deputy Designates (Place Based) - #2157924

Are you an experienced Safeguarding Practitioner who also can think strategically? And is motivated and excited to develop into a senior strategic safeguarding leadership position? If so, please do get in contact.




The Integrated Care Board (ICB) is recruiting a Place-based Safeguarding Deputy Designate (all-Age) to support the statutory Designated roles within the team and the new function of strategic commissioning. It is aimed at those wanting to progress in a career in safeguarding. The postholder will work alongside three other deputy roles within the team, and will be assigned to safeguarding children, children in care, care leavers and safeguarding adult workstreams.




The postholder will be exposed to working at a strategic level within the BNSSG and Gloucestershire systems, closely supported by the Designated statutory roles. As it is an all-age role, the postholder will also be encouraged to attend training events to upskill in any areas that they are not familiar with as it is recognised that practitioners may have particular expertise in either children’s, children in care, care leavers or adult’s safeguarding.




We are committed to creating an inclusive organisation that promotes and values diversity. We know from experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger, more creative workplace that helps us to deliver the best services. We welcome applications which represent the rich diversity of our community; from people of all ages, disabled people, all genders, people from ethnic minority groups, LGBTQ+ people, people with diverse gender identity and expression, people from all religions and beliefs and other diverse characteristics, and we have processes in place to ensure that all applications are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process.




This role is to support place based arrangements and therefore is aligned to a locality, currently Bristol although there is likely to be rotation in the team at some point in 2027/2028.




The contracted work base for this post is located at Temple Street, Bristol. The ICB supports hybrid working however in order to deliver the functions of the services, flexibility and agility are required by the post holder to deliver all aspects of this role. Therefore the post holder must be able to commit to being available to meet in person at short notice. This may include a variety of locations such as being in the office or in the BNSSG or Gloucestershire locality to support the delivery of the requirements of the role and ICBs. The ICB retains the right to request that staff work from any ICB approved location during their contracted hours within the BNSSG ICB locality at the manager’s discretion.