The Safeguarding Practitioner is an experienced specialist practitioner with in-depth knowledge of adults at risk and child protection and advanced analytical skills for safeguarding acquired through specialist courses and experiential learning from interagency work.
Main duties of the job
The main purpose of this post is to primarily work with the Safeguarding Children's function of the team; however, there is an aspiration for practitioners to be able to work across both adult and children's functions in the future.
The adult and children's safeguarding teams are based at Stoke Mandeville Hospital but have responsibility for working with acute and community services provided, which will therefore require travel trustwide.
This post will work within a bigger team in order to provide:
* Expert advice and support for colleagues in relation to safeguarding adults and child protection concerns.
* Safeguarding adults and child protection training for all colleagues.
* Safeguarding adults and child protection supervision for colleagues.
* Effective communication channels with the Buckinghamshire Safeguarding Adults and Children's boards.
* Robust internal policies and guidelines for safeguarding adults.
Job responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
Person Specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
* NMC Registered Nurse/Registered Children's Nurse/RMN/RNLD, Registered Social Worker or Registered HCPC AHP.
* Degree related to professional role or extensive relevant experience and willingness to undertake further education.
* Experience of delivering training.
EXPERIENCE
* Experience of working in a clinical area in community or acute as a Band 6 or 7 with a minimum of 3 years' experience in that grade.
* Knowledge of local and national guidance and research in relation to Safeguarding Adults and children.
* Knowledge of legal framework and of political and policy changes affecting Safeguarding Adults and children.
* Knowledge of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, Mental Capacity Act, Liberty of Protection Safeguards and associated health and social care legislation.
* Knowledge of data protection and NHS code of confidentiality.
* Experience of working with safeguarding policies and procedures.
* Experience with close liaison with multi-disciplinary teams and multi-agency staff.
* Awareness and understanding of the wider health and safety, clinical risk, and quality issues. Awareness and understanding of equality and diversity.
* Evidence of managing clinical incidents and/or complaints.
* Clear Safeguarding experience, with a highly developed specialist knowledge of the subject area.
* Experience of safeguarding supervision as supervisee.
* Experience of safeguarding supervision as supervisor.
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
* Excellent interpersonal skills to enable effective working with all groups and all levels of staff, other agencies and public.
* Ability to self-manage workload and ensure it is prioritised appropriately.
* Experience in producing clear and concise reports to convey information fully and accurately to enable effective multidisciplinary and multi-agency working for the purpose of safeguarding children and/or adults at risk.
* Ability to initiate and conduct audits and develop action plans for the purpose of monitoring and improving safeguarding practices within the Trust.
* IT Literacy skills sufficient to produce reports, conduct research and communicate via e-mail.
* Ability to facilitate learning in others using a variety of methods.
* Ability to analyse issues/problems and devise and implement appropriate plan of action.
* Able to question and analyse information and to make sound judgements often under pressure in difficult circumstances.
* Ability to work under pressure and deal with confrontation.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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