Main area: Safeguarding, Public Protection & Mental Capacity Team
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Flexible working options available)
Job ref: 274-11292-COR
Employer: Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Welton House
Town: Lincoln
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/03/2025 23:59
Interview date: 21/03/2025
Safeguarding Public Protection & Mental Capacity Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
The Safeguarding, Public Protection and Mental Capacity Team are expanding and are offering exciting opportunities for new safeguarding, public protection and mental capacity practitioners. This is a varied and dynamic role within a supportive team, who have strong values and work towards a shared vision to support the organisation and ensure that the safety of people who access our services is paramount and their rights are promoted and upheld.
You will be supported to develop specialist knowledge of safeguarding, public protection and mental capacity and have the opportunity to share this knowledge through delivering training to the organisation, providing support and advice, developing understanding of clinical services and developing strong relationships with frontline teams. You will represent information in multi-agency meetings to advocate for people with mental health problems, learning disabilities and autism to promote understanding and develop systems that work together to safeguard adults, children, and families.
We welcome applications from a registered practitioner with experience of working within mental health, learning disability, and autism. Candidates should have experience of applying safeguarding within their role and a passion for promoting the importance of safety and working to empower people through safeguarding processes and the Mental Capacity Act so that they can live safe and fulfilling lives.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will be an integral member of the team, developing skills in delivering training, working to create a safeguarding hub that is responsive and provides an increasingly supportive function within the organisation, and attending multi-agency meetings, particularly for high-risk domestic abuse cases to support understanding of mental health, learning disability, and autism, and appropriate access to services with the aim of increasing safety and improving people's lives.
Working for our organisation
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism, and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high-quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with a multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff network groups, and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
This post is suitable for someone educated to degree level in mental health/social care or another relevant subject or equivalent experience within the mental health field. Candidates should have experience of working within mental health or learning disability services and applying safeguarding processes in practice.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Professional qualification to degree level in Social Work, Nursing, Psychology, Medical or Occupational Therapy
* Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Level 3
* Mental Capacity Act Training Level 3
* Domestic abuse training
* Supervision Training or Qualification
* Presentation and training qualification
* Leadership Training or Qualification
Experience
* Safeguarding adults at risk, children, MAPP and domestic abuse in clinical practice
* Use of MCA (2005) including Deprivation of Liberty in clinical practice
* Working in an advisory capacity to others
* Liaising and networking with other agencies and internal services
* Delivering information to small groups
* Knowledge of Prevent and the risk of radicalisation
* Working in mental health services
* Supervision of other clinicians or staff on a group or individual basis
* Report writing – for example Root Cause Analysis, MHA or court reports
* Specialist knowledge/experience around domestic abuse, safeguarding adults/children and/or public protection
* Specialist knowledge around the Mental Capacity Act and DoLS
Skills
* Analytical skills
* Communication skills in relation to escalating concerns with other agencies and respectful challenge
* Ability to prioritise competing objectives and workload
* A desire to uphold people’s Human Rights and to ensure they live free from abuse
* Sharing of proportionate information that is complex and concerns risk
* Complex case management
* The ability to support clinical staff who are dealing with complex and at times emotionally challenging cases
As an ethical recruiter, we will not pursue applications from red list countries as defined by the World Health Organisation. In order to pursue and apply for this role, you must have UK NHS experience.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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