A Vacancy at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking a dedicated and experienced Specialist Practitioner to join our team, focusing on safeguarding children and young people. This role is pivotal in ensuring excellence in safeguarding practices throughout the Trust.
Key Responsibilities:
• Safeguarding Excellence: Ensure robust safeguarding processes within the Trust’s clinical governance framework.
• Expert Advice: Provide expert advice and support on safeguarding issues to the Trust.
• Clinical Supervision: Actively maintain safeguarding clinical supervision processes.
• Staff Support: Assist staff with day-to-day safeguarding concerns and multi-agency liaison and planning.
• Service Delivery: Deliver high-quality safeguarding expertise, offering professional advice, support, and education to the multi-professional team.
• Communication: Convey and present complex information both written and verbally, formally and informally.
• Policy Development: Collaborate with Named Professionals to develop evidence-based patient care policies and procedures.
• Training Strategy: Implement and deliver the Trust-wide safeguarding training strategy, ensuring all staff receive the necessary education and training.
• Evaluation:Record, monitor, and evaluate the effectiveness of the safeguarding training strategy.
If you are passionate about safeguarding, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to make a difference in healthcare!
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Thank you for your interest in this role.
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Wednesday 12 Mar 2025
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