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:
We’re currently recruiting a Safeguarding Manager within the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation to help us take things to the next level.
PLEASE NOTE: This is a fixed-term, maternity cover position, from 1 July 2025 – 30 June 2026.
About You:
- Flexible and able to adapt to a changing workplace and regulatory requirements.
- Forward thinking, and able to generate innovative ideas.
- Values and respects others, builds strong relationships, and able to collaborate effectively.
- Can get things done and deliver to the highest standards, and willing to take on responsibility.
- Able to work seamlessly in either a team environment or on your own.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills including written, verbal, and presentation skills in a professional setting.
What you will bring:
Essential:
- Experience in a Designated Safeguarding Officer/Lead role in a fast-paced environment with multiple modes of service delivery. Ideally within a secondary/ post16 educational 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.
- 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
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.
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.
