Role Overview
The post-holder will play a key role in promoting safeguarding across our trust.
Responsibilities
* Promote safeguarding within settings, adopting a family‑focused approach, early help and prevention, and advocating for the voice and experience of children while listening to adults to ensure a person‑centred and safe response.
* Support and respond to safeguarding enquiries from the whole workforce, including children and adult directorates, community & acute services, forensic and specialist services, and all support services including volunteers.
* Provide a strong advisory and sign‑posting function and follow the systems and processes in place to manage concerns, referrals and individual cases efficiently and expeditiously.
* 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, 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, enabling learning to be taken forward in practice.
* Follow up on referral pathways, including case escalation in support of teams and practitioners.
* Deliver a significant amount of safeguarding training from a variety of safeguarding topics in a variety of formats, including face‑to‑face, team‑based, planned, large sessions and bite‑size sessions to meet the needs of the workforce.
* Provide reflective safeguarding supervision and debrief to optimise staff support and practice development.
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