Senior Safeguarding Advisor (Band 7)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Safeguarding

You will work closely with our teams to ensure The Childrens Trust meet its statutory responsibilities to protect the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.

Support the organisation to meet statutory duties for Looked After Children, including oversight of care planning standards and close liaison with external professionals.

Provide specialist advice and consultation to the wider MDT for CLA, LPS, DOLS and MCA, keeping abreast of policy and national changes.

• Ensure any CYP in the assessment stage have their social care status and safeguarding concerns identified and managed, working closely with external partners
• Provide advice underpinned by specialist knowledge to the organisation on Looked After Children, safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, incorporating local and national guidance and statutory regulations.
• Lead the high-quality delivery of the organisations mandatory safeguarding training programme.
• Create and/or utilise opportunities for recordable Safeguarding Supervision.
• Provide Safeguarding Supervision to individuals or groups, ensuring appropriate reflective practice is embedded.
• Support analysis of regulatory compliance data, against safeguarding training and supervision.
• Effectively communicate local safeguarding knowledge, research and findings from audits, challenge poor practice and address areas where there is an identified training/development opportunity.
• Lead on assigned safeguarding investigations and ensure subsequent learning is embedded and practice developed as a result.
• Support overview of incident management and trend., reporting information into Clinical Governance meetings.
• Facilitate and contribute to safeguarding audits, demonstrating and sharing your knowledge of how to implement and audit the effectiveness of safeguarding/child protection services on an organisational level against current national guidelines and quality standards.
• Facilitate and contribute to the development of safeguarding and other relevant policies, demonstrating and sharing your knowledge of how to implement effective safeguarding/child protection services on an organisational level against current national guidelines and quality standards.
• Cover for the absence of the safeguarding Strategy and Assurance Lead as required.

Skills and Responsibilities

• Maintain knowledge and expertise on national and local policy and guidance in relation to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.

Management of self and others

• Maintain a positive approach and outlook when dealing with change and overcoming challenges and problems.
• Recognise own limitations, develop realistic goals, and use support network resource when or if necessary.
• Treat challenges and problems as a learning experience.
• Remain organised and focused when under pressure.
• Respond appropriately and effectively to all constructive feedback.
• Motivate self and others

Communication

• Handle sensitive information professionally.
• Impart professional knowledge and provide constructive feedback to foster learning.
• Maintains clear and concise documents and records, in accordance with The Childrens Trust Policy.
• Ensures documents are managed confidentially at all times.
• Liaise professionally with our partners in external agencies and provide information as required and as appropriate.

• Report identified risks, maintain accurate records, and participate in audits and other activities for clinical governance.
• Produce and contribute to internal reports, and external reporting such as the Section 11 audit.
• Ensure any appropriate concerns are accurately reported in the incident reporting system.
• Demonstrate working knowledge of regulatory compliance e.g. The CQC, Ofsted Care and Ofsted Education frameworks, childrens home regulations and Keeping Children Safe in Ofsted Education, Keeping Children Safe in Education, supporting necessary regulatory assessments/reviews/visits.
• Meet with parents as part of the complaints process where relevant and take overview and management of complaints as required

Professionalism:

• Meet the current Social Work England professional body standards with respect to professionalism and to keep up to date with any changes.
• Participate and maintain evidence for re-validation.
• Be responsible for maintaining registration with Social Work England.
• Adhere to the policies and procedures of The Childrens Trust. Maintain professional boundaries and professionalism at all times.
• Keep abreast of sector developments.
• Maintain own supervision and reflection.

• Adheres to all Health and Safety guidelines, principles, and regulations to perform your role and comply with The Childrens Trust policies and procedures.
• Provide evidence of all vaccinations (or medical exemption) required for the post.
• Adhere to manual handling procedures and complete mandatory manual handling training.
• Promotes the health and safety of others.
• Uses the incident reporting and risk assessment system (IRAR), to identify and report risks and incidents/actions if directed.
• Responsible for identifying and mitigating risk within the work environment. Wellbeing and Emotional Resilience
• Maintains a positive approach and outlook when dealing with change and overcoming challenges and problems.
• Recognises own limitations, develops realistic goals, and uses support network resource when or if necessary.
• Treats challenges and problems as a learning experience.
• Remains organised and focused when under pressure.
• Responds appropriately and effectively to all constructive feedback.
• Motivates self and other

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant professional Health Care or Social Work
• qualification.
• Registration with NMC, HCPC or Social Work
• England.
• Completion of relevant post-registration training in
• safeguarding children and young people (e.g. Law,
• policy and practice at Level 2 or PGDip) or equivalent
• experience.

Experience

Essential

• A minimum of 3 years practice experience in relevant
• field
• Currently practising in the field of safeguarding, or
• relevant recent previous experience.
• Experience of delivering training and supervision.
• Experience of effective partnership working with
• internal and external stakeholders.
• Working with children, young people and families

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Strong, up to date knowledge base around
• Safeguarding and can articulate how this applies to
• the children and young people, including those over
• 18 years old, under the care of The Children's Trust.
• Strong understanding of the social care framework for
• vulnerable children.
• Understanding of the regulatory framework around
• safeguarding and how it relates to our responsibilities
• as a Childrens Home.
• Knowledge of CLA, LPS and MCA
• Ability to prepare reports.
• Ability to problem solve and make decisions.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to challenge practice.
• Confident in the delivery of training and able to adapt
• to ensure learning is achieved.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Commitment to the vision and values of The
• Childrens Trust.
• Flexible and can do attitude to competing
• commitments in workload.
• Highly motivated and reliable.
• Ability to cope working in a demanding environment.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

The Children's Trust

Address

The Childrens Trust

Tadworth Court

Tadworth

Surrey

KT20 5RU

Employer's website

https://www.thechildrenstrust.org.uk/jobs (Opens in a new tab)