# Safeguarding Exploitation Health Lead > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for NHS Surrey and Sussex Integrated Care Board. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/safeguarding-exploitation-health-lead/3e48fbe5-41c4-4e06-8721-24596974bca1 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/safeguarding-exploitation-health-lead/3e48fbe5-41c4-4e06-8721-24596974bca1.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** NHS Surrey and Sussex Integrated Care Board - **Location:** Sackville House - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Lead (legacy management group) - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum - **Contract type:** 12 months (Secondment/Fixed-Term) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-02T23:59:59.999Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-19T14:00:49.503Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Surrey/Lewes/NHS_Surrey_Sussex_ICB/Safeguarding/Safeguarding-v8377853 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8377853?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.surreysussex.icb.nhs.uk/ ## Job Content ### Job overview Please note that if you are applying for this role as an internal secondment from a permanent Surrey and Sussex ICB role, you will need to have confirmation that this will be supported by your current line manager. There is no automatic right to a secondment. This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and highly skilled safeguarding professional to lead and strengthen the health system’s response to exploitation across Sussex. Working collaboratively across organisational boundaries with NHS providers, local authorities, police, safeguarding partnerships and community organisations, you will provide specialist leadership, advice, training and assurance to help prevent, identify and respond to exploitation. This influential role offers the opportunity to improve multi-agency safeguarding arrangements and make a meaningful difference to the lives and outcomes of children and young people who are experiencing, or may be at risk of, exploitation. ### Main duties of the job - With the support of the ICB and wider safeguarding team, act as a lead for exploitation across the health system, ensuring and co-ordinating health representation and engagement within the exploitation agenda, and all relevant risk assessment and relevant meetings. - Support the Head of Safeguarding, Designated Professionals and wider team to ensure that the exploitation workstream is planned and managed effectively and take the lead in assisting in their successful delivery. - Work closely with the Safeguarding Children Partnerships, (and Safeguarding Adult Boards as needed), to continually improve safeguarding arrangements regarding exploitation across the health economy in partnership with a range of agencies and services, including the Local Authorities and Police - Lead and coordinate the NHS health economy activity to prevent, identify and respond to exploitation. - Act as the NHS safeguarding lead and subject-matter expert for exploitation and maintain awareness of emerging issues, legislation, policy and best practice. - Ensure organisational awareness of exploitation and its relationship with wider safeguarding processes. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The job description is an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role, and the job specification is an outline of the skills, experience and qualities needed. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager. The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Directorate and ICB. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - - An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust - - Used to working in a busy environment - - Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change - - Commitment to continuing professional development - - Professional calm and efficient manner - - Effective organiser - - Demonstrate a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals. - - Experience of managing a team without direct line management - - Ability to demonstrate the NHS and ICS values and behaviours in all aspects of work and interactions with colleagues, stakeholders, patients and service users. ### Autonomy **Essential** - - Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales. ### Analytical **Essential** - - Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources. - - Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making - - Numerate and able to understand complex issues combined with deep analytical skills - - Experience of setting up and implementing internal and multi-agency processes and procedures ### Physical Skills **Essential** - - Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills. ### Planning Skills **Essential** - - Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly - - Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures. ### Equality and Diversity **Essential** - - Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships ### Knowledge, Training and Experience **Essential** - - Hold current clinical registration and membership of relevant professional body. - - Educated to degree level or equivalent level qualification in relevant subject or significant experience of working in specialist area - - Significant experience of successfully operating in a multi-agency environment - - Evidence of continued professional development - - Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments - - Experience of managing risks and reporting - - Experience of drafting briefing papers, reports and correspondence at a system wide level - - Understanding of the public sector and multi-agencies within the system **Desirable** - - Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment. ### Communication & Relationship Skills **Essential** - - Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to a broad range of stakeholders as required - Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders ## Documents - [safeguarding exploitation health lead jd (pdf, 560.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10706339) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.