Interim National Safeguarding Manager

Posted on 22/05/2026

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Vacancy ID:
894
Closing Date:
07 June 2026
All Locations:

Any Guide Dogs Office
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All Teams:

Compliance
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Salary
£55,820–£64,029 per annum + excellent benefits
Contract Type:
Fixed Term Contract
Directorate:
Finance and Business Services
Hours Per Week:
35
Contract Duration:
6-months

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About The Role
This is a 6-month fixed-term or secondment opportunity, with flexibility to be based at any Guide Dogs office. Occasional travel, including overnight stays, will be required.

The role is full-time, working Monday to Friday, 9am–5pm.

This is a 6-month fixed-term or secondment opportunity, with flexibility to be based at any Guide Dogs office. Occasional travel, including overnight stays, will be required.

The role is full-time, working Monday to Friday, 9am–5pm.

At Guide Dogs, we’re committed to helping people with sight loss live the life they choose. As our National Safeguarding Manager, you’ll play a vital role in making that possible by ensuring robust safeguarding practices are embedded across everything we do.

Acting as the Lead Designated Person, you’ll provide expert leadership and guidance to protect children, young people, and adults at risk who come into contact with our organisation. This is a highly impactful role where you’ll shape safeguarding strategy, influence culture, and support colleagues to deliver safe, high-quality services.

About you

You’ll be an experienced safeguarding professional with strong leadership capability and a genuine passion for making a difference.

You’ll bring:

Experience working with children and adults at risk in social care, education, or the charity sector

Confidence in influencing and advising at all levels

The ability to communicate complex information clearly and effectively

A collaborative approach, with experience working across large organisations

Benefits:

We wouldn’t be able to change the lives of people with sight loss without our people. That’s why it’s important for us to provide a variety of benefits that reward our colleagues in a way that suits them and recognises the hard work and contribution that they make.

26 days annual leave. After three years of continuous employment, this increases to 28 days plus bank holidays.

Real Living Wage Employer

Flex pot - equal to a proportion of your annual salary to use on our wide variety of flexible benefits

The option to buy and sell annual leave

Discounts and cash-back scheme

Excellent pension scheme (We will match your pension contributions plus 2% up to a maximum of 9% employer contribution)

And lots more!

For high volumes of applications, we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than advertised.
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About Us
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Behind Every Guide Dog Is Someone Like You - We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it.

How to apply

Further details on the full role are attached below. When you are ready to apply, submit an online application form via this page. Please note - If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK via our digital ID checking supplier. We cannot offer visa sponsorship at this time.

As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description. You will also be asked to complete a few job-specific questions, so please be prepared to write your answers to these questions.

If you choose to use AI tools to assist in completing your application, please use them appropriately.  We value authenticity. If you want to stand out, using a generic AI-generated response isn’t going to separate you from the crowd. This is your time to shine and showcase your unique skills, personality, and thought processes!  You can find our full statement on the use of AI to complete applications on our careers website.

If you would like to have an informal conversation about the role before applying, or require any accessibility support to apply, our friendly recruitment team is ready and waiting to help. Call them on 0118 3540345 or drop an email to [email protected].

Safer recruitment:

Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If you are applying for a disclosure role, please note that you will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and sign up to the DBS update service.

At Guide Dogs, we believe in fair and equitable hiring practices. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify an applicant from consideration for a position. Each case will be evaluated individually. We encourage all candidates to disclose relevant information, and we assure you that it will be handled confidentially and fairly.