Safeguarding Practitioner
The closing date is 07 May 2026
To be responsible for providing effective safeguarding activity through professional leadership and safeguarding guidance. To ensure compliance across the Trust with Working Together to Safeguard Children (2026), Children Act 1989 and 2004, Care Act 2014, MCA 2005, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards 2009 and local safeguarding procedures.
To work closely with the Safeguarding Children and Adult senior safeguarding practitioners to deliver the safeguarding children, young people, safeguarding adult contextual safeguarding and domestic violence/abuse agendas across the organisation.
To work in partnership with other health service providers and other agencies, both statutory and voluntary, to promote children and adults at risk welfare and wellbeing to keep them safe from harm, neglect and abuse.
Applications from candidates that require current skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are unfortunately ineligible to apply for this position.
Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of. Applicants who subscribe to the DBS update service are able to present a valid DBS certificate instead of requiring a new check.
Main duties of the job
Provide safeguarding advice to Trust staff that contributes to the effective assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care and management of risk.
Work collaboratively and ensure maintenance of effective multi-agency communication to ensure patient/service users' needs are met in relation to care input, risk and support for ongoing care needs; meeting Making Safeguarding Personal requirements.
To support the development and implementation of safeguarding practice across the Trust, promoting effective multiagency liaison and providing training on safeguarding and all aspects of abuse including but not limited to domestic abuse, child sexual exploitation, trafficking, modern slavery, female genital mutilation.
Prevent, Recognise, prioritise and respond appropriately to urgent safeguarding concerns.
Ensure patient information is collated, monitored and fully accurate, maintaining complete and contemporaneous records in line with NMC/ professional bodies and Trust standards.
Actively encourage and support frontline staff to adopt a Safeguarding Everyone, Think Family approach to Safeguarding.
Advise, inform and escalate safeguarding concerns to the respective Senior Safeguarding Practitioners regarding all matters in relation to safeguarding as appropriate.
Person Specification
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND TRAINING
* Registered Professional (Nurse/AHP/Social Worker/Police Officer
* Membership of the relevant Professional Body
* Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training
* Knowledge and understanding of Trust Strategy relevant to role
JOB SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE
* Experience at professional practitioner level
* Able to demonstrate clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding risk and management of risk.
* Demonstrable knowledge of safeguarding interventions
* Recent previous experience within a comparable role
* Experience of developing specialist programmes of care for an individual or groups of patients/clients and of providing highly specialist advice
MANAGERIAL/SUPERVISORY EXPERIENCE
* Experience of developing and delivering training
* Experience of using electronic patient / service user record systems
* Experience of providing supervision to staff
* Able to analyse data and produce reports using Microsoft Excel and Word
PERSONAL QUALITIES/ATTRIBUTES
* Able to communicate effectively at different levels of the organisation and with staff, patient/service users, visitors or external organisations both verbally and in writing in the exchange of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information which may require the use of negotiating and/or persuasive skills.
* Able to analyse and assess situations and to interpret potentially conflicting situations and determine appropriate action, where there is a range of options and judgement is required.
* Demonstrable ability to analyse situations and provide a resolution
* Knowledge and understanding of legislation relevant to practice
* Ability to support quality improvement across the service
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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