Community Safeguarding Advisor

About us at Hounslow

We'd love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be. We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we've built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London's most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in "Harness the Mix". It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There's space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

If you join us, you'll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here .

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of Hounslow's Adult Quality Assurance, Improvement & Specialist Services.

Your primary role will be to promote a clear understanding of safeguarding across the different communities, local businesses and voluntary sector organisations in a thoughtful and engaging way. This is a new role that was created to work with existing safeguarding structures but will need an innovative approach to build new opportunities for collaboration.

About The Team You'll Be Working In

The role reports to the Hounslow Safeguarding Adults Board Business Manager and sits within the children and adult services directorate. This is an exciting, new role within a diverse and transformative team. The team cover a range of specialist services, but your focus will be on the safeguarding of vulnerable adults in our communities.

Responsibilities

• You will develop a safeguarding participation approach & action plan.
• You will support the development with communities and local businesses for person-centred approaches to working with risk.
• You will develop and report good practice evidence of positive engagement with people who have been subjected to the safeguarding process including evidence of the person's views and outcomes being sought.
• You will contribute to the development of the Directorate service plan, owning responsibilities and targets.
• You will be a key point of contact between the council and local residents and other stakeholders.
• You will be required to meet with residents, including home and site visits.

About You

Key for this role is that you have a professional background in safeguarding and in-depth knowledge of safeguarding legislation, policies, and best practices and significant experience in developing and implementing effective safeguarding policies and procedures.

Requirements

• You will have risk assessment and management principles and be proficient in conducting risk assessments and developing safeguarding procedures.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively with a wide range of stakeholders. You will also have experience in delivering training and mentoring others on safeguarding issues.
• Proactive and resourceful. You will demonstrate you have empathy, resilience and compassion in handling sensitive and challenging issues, with a commitment to ensuring the wellbeing of all individuals.
• Effective negotiation and conflict resolution skills. Ability to remain calm and professional under pressure and confident in addressing difficult issues and making tough decisions.
• You will be detail-oriented and methodical in approach and have strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities.
• High level of organisational and time‑management skills. Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Proficient in the use of the Microsoft Office suite and Customer Relationship Management systems.
• High level of integrity and ethical standards and a strong sense of accountability and responsibility.

Essential for this role

This role is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Read more about the work you'll be doing in the Role Profile

Read more about the work you'll be doing in the Role Profile.

The Hiring Process and Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the Role Profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

• Email:
• Telephone:

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 5th October 2026.

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