Safeguarding Adults Officer

Safeguarding Adults Officer

Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Grade: D - £45,091 – £53,460 (Consultation grade subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review)

Working hours: 36.5 hours per week

Employment type: Full-time

Seniority level: Entry level

Job function: Other

Industries: Human Resources Services

Are you ready to make a real impact on safeguarding and wellbeing in Birmingham? The Birmingham Safeguarding Adults Board (BSAB) is seeking a proactive, adaptable, and technically confident individual to serve as a Safeguarding Adults Officer. This specialist role offers the chance to work at the heart of a statutory board, shaping strategic initiatives that protect adults with care and support needs from abuse and neglect.

This is not a frontline case management role – instead, you’ll drive strategic projects, coordinate subgroups, and ensure the smooth delivery of events, conferences, and communications.

• Policy development, procedures, audits, annual reports, and dashboards
• Multi-agency collaboration with police, NHS, and local authority partners
• Prevention-driven initiatives that safeguard vulnerable adults

• Lead and support subgroups/task & finish groups to deliver board priorities and projects against the strategic workplan
• Organise and run events, including venue liaison, presentations, and contingency planning
• Manage communications and engagement, including newsletters, website updates, and publicity materials
• Demonstrate technical confidence with Microsoft Office, Forms, Sway, Eventbrite, and back-office systems

• Sound understanding of safeguarding adults and experience of multi-agency partnership working
• Up-to-date knowledge of adult safeguarding legislation, policies, and procedures
• Experience in business planning, audits, annual reports, and dashboard management
• Ability to prioritise a diverse workload and lead multidisciplinary projects
• Strong analytical skills to interpret complex, sensitive, and contentious information
  
  Confident event organiser and communicator
• High level and effective IT skills across Microsoft Office packages and relevant digital platforms
• Flexibility to be able to work in locations where needed
• Hybrid working (up to 4 days per week office-based) with flexibility on hours

• Be part of a small, dedicated team working face‑to‑face with partners across Birmingham
• Shape safeguarding arrangements and drive strategic change

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people. We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.

A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be undertaken.

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed.

Please upload your up-to-date CV via the attachments part of your application; this is required for shortlisting. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV attached.