Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019.
Job overview
A fantastic opportunity for a Safeguarding Practitioner has arisen to join the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, who has been awarded Mental Health Provider of the Year in the HSJ Awards.
You will be transforming care for the populations we serve, whilst maximising safeguarding from a ‘think family’ approach integral to all of our services.
You will be a registered professional with a passion for safeguarding underpinned with excellent working knowledge of the appropriate legislation including adults and children. You will work in an integrated safeguarding role working to maximise safeguarding for children and vulnerable adults.
The role encompasses working within a busy duty desk, support to staff on safeguarding matters, support with organising and facilitating training.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the role include:
* To be accountable for the delivery of high quality safeguarding services in an integrated safeguarding team, to provide safeguarding and organisational leadership, ensuring the delivery of evidence based safeguarding interventions and practice for both adult and child.
* To continue to demonstrate specialist skills in practice and provide support and advice regarding service development and the delivery of care in partnership with service users, carers, staff, managers and other agencies, across a number of teams.
* To be responsible for achieving key performance indicators for the service’s safeguarding delivery.
* To be accountable to the Named Professional for Adult Safeguarding and the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children you will work within the Trust safeguarding team and work collaboratively with clinical teams and external partners across the geography of the Trust.
* You will work as part of the team delivering specialist safeguarding training to all Trust staff, in line with the intercollegiate documents for children and adults.
Working for our organisation
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
Minimum Requirements
The following qualifications and experience are necessary for the role:
* Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Working Together, Childrens Act 1989, Care Act 2014.
* Current registration on the NMC or Social Work England register.
* Evident of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the service area to specialist level of post-graduate diploma or equivalent knowledge/experience learning.
Experience
* Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice.
* Demonstrable experience of recent working in the specific field where the post is held.
* Able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level.
* Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation.
* Experience of working within an integrated team.
Personal Attributes
* Effective inter-personal skills and experience.
* Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity.
* Ability to commute between the various sites.
* Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally.
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.
For more information, please contact Rosie O'Connell, Head of Safeguarding at rosie.oconnell@nhs.net or call 07929828252.
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