Safeguarding Manager

Who We Are

Founded in 1882, Tottenham Hotspur is an iconic English football club, playing in the

Premier League and Women’s Super League. From North London to the world, our fanbase spans continents, cultures, and generations. Spurs is a club that’s always dared to push boundaries, breaking new ground and rewriting history.

We offer world-class facilities: In 2019, we opened our state-of-the-art Stadium, a £1 billion landmark that’s the beating heart of North Tottenham’s transformation. More than just a football ground, it’s an engine of change — creating 4,000 jobs and injecting £300 million into the local economy every year.

We’re at our brightest when we’re all together. Our Club, our teams, our community.

There is only one Hotspur. Tottenham Hotspur.

The Role

The Club is seeking a Safeguarding Manager to drive safeguarding practice within Women and Girls’ football.

This is a pivotal role with dual accountabilities for the management of safeguarding operations for both the Girls’ Talent Pathway, and the Women’s First Team. Women’s Football is at a time of rapid growth and transition, and we are looking for an individual who is able to adapt to a fast-changing workplace to meet and exceed regulatory requirements.

Reporting and accountable to the Club Head of Safeguarding, the right candidate will be a passionate safeguarding professional able to influence, support and constructively challenge in order to embed and sustain a culture where safeguarding is everybody’s responsibility.

The position will involve working irregular hours on occasion (e.g. evenings, weekends and bank holidays) so a flexible candidate is sought.

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club welcomes applications from anyone regardless of age, disability, race, colour or ethnic and national origins, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

Job Purpose

The role involves managing and overseeing safeguarding concerns and welfare arrangements. The post holder is required to work closely and collaboratively with Women's Team Managers to prioritise safeguarding and ensure that inclusive practices are adopted across all departments and areas of operations.

The position requires expertise in implementing, monitoring, and reviewing safeguarding strategies and aligning safeguarding arrangements with statutory and regulatory guidelines.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Safeguarding Leadership & Governance

• Implement the Club’s safeguarding policies, procedures and strategic plan in partnership with other Safeguarding Managers and the Head of Safeguarding
• Support the work of the Head of Safeguarding and other Safeguarding Managers, in delivering the implementation plan
• Deputise for the Club’s Head of Safeguarding as appropriate to cover absence and where specifically requested

Quality Assurance & Compliance

• Implement quality assurance measures to assess safeguarding practices in the context of the Academy provision
• Contribute to a continuous improvement culture
• Lead, deliver and participate in safeguarding audits and implement recommendations

Case Management

• Manage safeguarding concerns in line with Club policy and statutory requirements under the guidance and oversight of the Head of Safeguarding
• Make referrals as required to both statutory and regulatory bodies
• Keep up to date on changes in legislative and regulative requirements
• Maintain safeguarding records and provide related administration support
• Establish and maintain clear reporting and information sharing processes in relation to low level concerns
• Proactively identify and mitigate operational safeguarding risks to players and staff within Women and Girls’ football
• Inform risk mitigation measures for Women & Girls’ events, tours & trips

Working together

• Be embedded within the Women and Girls’ Academy to work collaboratively with pastoral, player care and educational teams
• Visit and learn from those working in the same role in similar Clubs

Promote awareness

• To ensure that safeguarding requirements, understanding and learning are embedded within Women and Girls’ football’s ways of working, activities, and behaviours of all staff and players
• Actively promote and raise awareness of safer working practices, including via staff induction and ongoing training of staff
• Contribute to, plan and deliver safeguarding education to relevant key stakeholder groups including players and parents
• Keep abreast of current safeguarding issues, and best practice, and disseminate information appropriately
• Model best practice principles to colleagues

What you will bring

Personal Attributes

• Is flexible, and able to adapt to a changing workplace and regulatory requirements.
• Thinks ahead, generates innovative ideas
• Values & respects others, builds relationships, collaborates
• Gets things done, delivers to highest of standards, takes responsibility
• Team worker whilst highly capable of working on own

Skills & Experience

Essential Requirements

• Experienced in a Designated Safeguarding Officer/Lead role in a fast-paced environment with multiple modes of service delivery. Ideally within a secondary/ post16 educational /sport setting
• Professional Qualification, or equivalent experience, working with children, young people and adults at risk
• Experience of supporting the development of policy and best practice
• Examples of ability to influence, advise and support colleagues on safeguarding issues
• Demonstrable knowledge of safeguarding matters, statutory and other guidance related to the best outcomes for children and adults at risk
• The ability to exercise the highest standards of confidentiality and to work sensitively with those affected by issues of safeguarding
• Ability to analyse complex situations, make decisions and advise appropriately
• Ability to identify examples of poor practice and ensure that necessary change is implemented
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills including written, verbal, and presentation skills in a professional setting
• Practical experience of planning and delivering workshops, training events, network events and supporting knowledge sharing with a range of stakeholders
• Proven planning and organisation skills with excellent attention to detail
• Examples of self-motivation, self-management, solutions-focus and the ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team
• Demonstrable awareness of relevant legislation, policy and ability to recognise good practice and ability to use good practice examples as a way of improving organisational culture
• Much of the work takes place evenings and weekends. The successful candidate must be willing to work flexibly, five days out of seven, and work across sites
• The successful applicant must be willing to travel across North London sites. This role requires a full driving licence and access to a car, as the Girls’ Talent Pathway currently is delivered across multiple sites

Desirable

• Experience of establishing effective working relationships, partnerships and collaborations with a range of organisations and providers
• Managing staff concerns and questions in relation to advice on safeguarding/child protection issues
• Experience of working with a range of service users with additional support needs
• An understanding of day-to-day operational issues in a sport-based environment
• Experience of digital safeguarding platforms

Additional requirements

This role will require an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service record check. Applicants will be asked about any previous convictions, cautions, reprimands that are not ‘protected’ as defined by the Rehabilitation Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amended)

The Tottenham Hotspur Way

Is to push harder, rise higher and forge greater. We involve, inspire and elevate one another to be our best selves, to produce exceptional on and off the pitch. Every day brings us opportunities to improve and make the impossible, possible.

Our values that bind us:

DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE – Impossible made possible when we think outside the box

DARE TO CHANGE THE GAME – Relentlessly strive for glory and leave our mark on the world

DO IT OUR WAY – Win the right way, never at all costs

Our Responsibility to you

Safeguarding is fundamental to the success in all that we do. Successful candidates are to be reminded they would be subject to various background, DBS, and reference checks for this role.

We welcome applications from anyone regardless of age, disability, gender, race, or ethnic and national origins, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.