A fantastic opportunity has arisen within Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust to appoint a skilled, motivated, and enthusiastic Registered Professional to join the Safeguarding Team.
The Safeguarding Practitioner will be an experienced practitioner with in-depth knowledge of adults at risk and child protection and advanced analytical skills for safeguarding acquired through specialist courses and experiential learning from interagency work.
As part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust's Safeguarding Team, the successful post holder will be provided with a thorough induction package and professional development opportunities in the area of Safeguarding.
Main duties of the job
The main purpose of this post is to primarily work with the Safeguarding Children's function of the team however there is an aspiration for practitioners to be able to work across both adult and children’s functions in the future, therefore this is an all-age practitioner role.
The adult and children’s safeguarding teams are based at Stoke Mandeville Hospital but have responsibility for working with acute and community services, and the MASH (Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub) which will therefore require travel Trustwide.
The post holder will work within a bigger team in order to provide:
Working for our organisation
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
What do we stand for?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.
We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.
We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
Person specification
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EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING eg Education, professional qualifications
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EXPERIENCE e.g. Breadth of occupational experience
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SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE e.g., Communication skills, excellent organisation skills, etc
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SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES e.g., Ability to work internal rotation
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PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
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