Main duties of the job
The post-holder will have a significant role in promoting safeguarding within our settings, including a think family approach, early help and prevention, whilst advocating for the voice and experience of children whose welfare is paramount, and listening to adults to ensure our response is person-centred and safe.
The post holder will be supporting and responding to a range of safeguarding enquiries from the whole workforce including children and adult directorates, community & acute services, forensic and specialist, and all support services including volunteers within the trust.
The post‐holder will be required to liaise with operational services to reduce risk and concerns around safeguarding, complete fact‑finding such as via Independent Management Reports for Child Rapid Reviews, Safeguarding Adult Reviews and Domestic Homicide Review etc with robust analysis, advise on the management, waiting list and discharge plans for complex safeguarding cases to prevent omission, manage risk and support multi‑agency collaboration, attend child and adult practice reviews and learning events to enable learning to be taken forward in practice, and follow up on referral pathways, including case escalation in support of teams and practitioners.
The post‑holders will deliver a significant amount of safeguarding training from a variety of safeguarding topics in a variety of formats, i.e. face‑to‑face, teams, planned, large sessions and bit‑size to meet the needs of the workforce.
The post holder will provide reflective safeguarding supervision and debrief, to optimise staff support and practice development.
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Person Specification
* Professional Qualification with active registration Nursing, AHP, Social Worker
* Safeguarding Experience
* 3 years post registration experience
* Safeguarding Team experience
* mental health services experience
* Mental Capacity Act Experience
Degree
* Degree in health or social care.
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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