Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and experienced practitioner to join our committed Trust Safeguarding & Public Protection team to deliver, support and promote the Safeguarding agenda, Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) and Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA).
You will have responsibility to provide highly specialist advice and guidance to ensure standards of excellence in Safeguarding across the Trust and assist in the development and delivery of the Trusts Safeguarding training.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for promoting the wellbeing and safeguarding of all children, young people/adults by implementing the Trusts and Multi-agency Safeguarding policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
Whilst working under the direction of the Named Nurses for Safeguarding, the successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate initiative, innovation and emotional resilience given the nature of the role and must be able to work well both independently and within a team.
The post holder should hold a current professional registration within health or social care, a competency based teaching qualification, advanced Safeguarding training and current experience working within safeguarding policies and procedures.
The post holder will be expected to work at all sites across the Trust, but the main base is negotiable across multiple sites (Flatts Lane Centre, Lanchester Road Hospital, York).
About us
We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.
From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.
We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.
We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.
We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.
Date posted
17 February 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£37,338 to £44,962 a year pro rata, per annum
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
6 months
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
346-CORP-019-25
Job locations
Flatts Lane Centre
Flatts Lane, Normanby
Middlesbrough
TS6 0SZ
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for further detailed information regarding the role and main responsibilities.
Applicants must ensure that prior to applying they have agreement from their current line manager that they can be released on a secondment basis.
In the event that permanent funding is secured for this post the successful applicant will be confirmed in post on a permanent basis.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Current professional registration at 1st level in Health or Social Care.
2. Competency based teaching qualification.
Desirable
3. Recordable qualification in teaching.
4. Advanced level Safeguarding training
Experience
Essential
5. Knowledge and skills in the specialist safeguarding practice area through experiential learning.
6. Delivered a range of educational sessions and developed learning materials
7. Can demonstrate experience of providing guidance, advice and coaching to clinical staff.
8. Worked with children, young people and families - specific to the Safeguarding Childrens posts.
Desirable
9. Experience of working with people who have mental health conditions or a learning disability.
10. Experience of providing clinical supervision.
11. Experience of working in a multiagency forum
12. Can demonstrate experience as a trainer within the area of specialist knowledge required for the portfolio of the post.
Skills
Essential
13. Fully literate and able to communicate clearly complex information verbally, in legible writing and electronically in appropriate formats.
14. Ability to organise, plan and deliver complex activities and manage own workload
15. Ability to follow procedures and protocols and effectively apply work systems
16. Uses supervisory interventions, giving constructive feedback and support.
17. Ability to actively participate in team activity for ongoing work and short term projects.
18. Confidently and competently able to communicate to a wide range of people in a number of settings.
19. To be able to develop curriculum content and programmes of training intervention
20. To be able to develop monitoring and evaluation systems for training programmes
Knowledge
Essential
21. Awareness of the Safeguarding Agenda.
22. Understanding of confidential information management.
23. To have a good knowledge and understanding of confidential information management.
24. To have the knowledge and theory that underpins evidenced based practice in those areas of safeguarding held within the portfolio of the post.