Level 5 Strategic Safeguarding Leadership

Maxine our safeguarding lead has trained thousands of learners and works with organisations to ensure the training hits the mark every time. Starting with an initial scoping meeting, the training is customised to get the outcomes YOU desire. Contact us today to discuss your needs on 01782 757001 or email info@tnta.co.uk  

Our Level 5 Strategic Safeguarding Leadership Programme is a comprehensive two-day advanced programme designed for professionals who have strategic, organisational or senior leadership responsibility for safeguarding.


The programme is aimed at those who are responsible for leading safeguarding arrangements, influencing organisational practice, managing complex safeguarding concerns and providing strategic oversight and assurance. It moves beyond individual practice to explore how effective safeguarding is led, governed, challenged and continuously improved across organisations and partnerships.


The course examines the legislation, statutory guidance and research evidence that underpin safeguarding practice and considers how these translate into strategic responsibilities. Delegates will explore effective partnership working with Local Safeguarding Partnerships and Safeguarding Adults Boards, including how to build strong inter-agency relationships and navigate the complex dynamics that can arise between different organisations.


A key focus is strategic safeguarding leadership, including risk management, escalation and challenge. Delegates will develop the confidence to recognise when practice or organisational arrangements require escalation and explore how to challenge effectively while maintaining constructive professional relationships.


The programme also considers the emotional component of safeguarding, including the impact of complex and distressing safeguarding work on practitioners and leaders. Delegates will explore how effective safeguarding support, supervision and organisational systems can promote resilience and improve practice.


Participants will develop practical knowledge of designing, implementing and auditing robust safeguarding policies and procedures, alongside quality assurance processes and safeguarding audit methodology. The programme also explores how organisations can respond effectively to safeguarding incidents, including People in Positions of Trust (PiPoT) matters and the leadership of internal and external PiPoT meetings.


Delegates will explore how to lead multi-disciplinary review meetings, understand local authority safeguarding structures and reporting requirements, and develop an understanding of safeguarding thresholds, including what may trigger a statutory enquiry and how investigations can be led effectively.


The course also addresses training governance, including conducting a training needs analysis and determining the appropriate level of safeguarding training required for different roles within an organisation.


Learning from Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews (CSPRs) and Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SARs) is examined from a strategic perspective, with a focus on translating learning into sustainable improvements in policy, practice, training and organisational culture.


Finally, the programme explores complex safeguarding issues, enabling leaders to consider risk, vulnerability, exploitation, professional challenge and partnership working in situations where safeguarding concerns may be particularly difficult to identify or respond to.


The Programme covers:

  • Legislation, statutory guidance and research evidence
  • Strategic partnership working with Local Safeguarding Partnerships and Safeguarding Adults Boards
  • Strategic safeguarding leadership and leadership in practice
  • Safeguarding risk management
  • Effective inter-agency collaboration and professional relationships
  • Managing complex organisational and partnership dynamics
  • Escalation, professional challenge and resolution
  • The emotional impact of safeguarding and effective safeguarding supervision
  • Strategic development and implementation of safeguarding policies and procedures
  • PiPoT management, including leading internal and external meetings
  • Leading multi-disciplinary safeguarding review meetings
  • Local authority safeguarding structures, reporting and enquiry thresholds
  • Leading safeguarding investigations
  • Training needs analysis and safeguarding training requirements
  • Strategic learning from CSPRs and SARs
  • Safeguarding audit and quality assurance
  • Complex safeguarding


The programme is designed to be practical, challenging and strategic, giving senior safeguarding professionals the opportunity to apply their knowledge to real-world organisational and partnership scenarios.


It can be tailored to reflect the organisation's sector, safeguarding arrangements, policies, local partnership structures and specific areas of risk, ensuring that the learning is relevant to the responsibilities of those attending.


The programme can also be delivered with a combination, or a Children’s Safeguarding or Adults’ Safeguarding focus, depending on organisational requirements.



Bio

Maxine’s career spans over 25 years, working to support families, children and adults at risk of harm.

Maxine has wide and varied experience in safeguarding roles including whole family working, and training and development with charities, local authorities, MASH’s and partner agencies. She worked for Staffordshire County Council for their Troubled Families Initiative, leading a team of 52 practitioners who provided assessments, family support and safeguarding interventions for the highest need families (at risk of statutory intervention) across Staffordshire.

After requalifying as a teacher, Maxine specialised in parenting and behaviour and worked with the Local Safeguarding Board (now Local Safeguarding Children Partnership), writing and delivering safeguarding training.

Maxine delivers Level 1 through to Level 5 Safeguarding and has delivered training to 1,000s of workers, and continues to work with a wide range of organisations in both the public and private sectors, including the NHS, Housing Associations, Local Authorities and the Voluntary Sector.

Testimonials

Maxine delivers our safeguarding training at Clarion, this complements a range of training linked to Safeguarding we deliver. Maxine delivers excellent sessions, making them informative, interesting, and really allowing staff to be involved when learning - developing their skills, practice and professionalism – this training approach allows us to have confidence in our work with residents at risk and builds on our continual improvement to the development of our workforce skills in Clarion.


Amy Lawson - Head of Supported & Specialist Services (Housing Operations)   

I have worked closely with The National Training Academy over the last few years on 3 separate occasions with multiple providers as part of the Clinical Leadership Team to providing bespoke Level 2 and 3 Safeguarding training and also Level 4 training. The training provided has had to meet the needs of clinicians working in nontraditional clinical environments. TNTA have been an exceptional partner in delivering Safeguarding support to these organisations. Their expertise, responsiveness and professionalism sets them apart from many other providers. Their expertise in navigating complex safeguarding cases, coupled with their ability to communicate clearly and effectively has been invaluable. Through their comprehensive bespoke training packages our clinicians feel more confident in identifying and addressing Safeguarding issues, ensuring safe and effective outcomes. I would highly recommend TNTA to any organisation seeking expert safeguarding support. Their service has been truly outstanding.


Ann Wraith - Head of Clinical Standards for Health Assessment Advisory Service


 “…TNTA have been an exceptional partner in delivering Safeguarding support… Their expertise, responsiveness and professionalism sets them apart from many other providers… Their service has been truly outstanding...”


Ann Wraith - Head of Clinical Standards for Health Assessment Advisory Service


 “…Maxine delivers excellent sessions, making them informative, interesting, and really allowing staff to be involved when learning - developing their skills, practice and professionalism...” 


Amy Lawson - Head of Supported & Specialist Services (Housing Operations) Clarion Housing Association