Job summary
Nottingham CityCare
Partnerships are looking to recruit an experienced registered professional to
fulfil the role of Childrens Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner. The
successful candidate will join our integrated safeguarding team, working
principally across the childrens safeguarding agenda.
Nottingham
CityCare Safeguarding Team adopt
a Think Family approach; the service is progressive and innovative and is committed
to supporting the workforce in understanding safeguarding, embedding it into
everyday business and improving outcomes.
Supporting
the Safeguarding Practitioner will be several specialist safeguarding roles
relating to Children, Mental Capacity, Adults and Domestic Abuse. A significant part of this role will be
providing advice, training and supervision and support across the CityCare
workforce.
The successful applicant
will be given training to develop the knowledge and skills in order to complete
the above tasks and will be supported by more senior team members. The post
holder
will need to have robust safeguarding knowledge, and a solution-focused
approach which will enable them to develop effective professional relationships
with safeguarding partners. You will hold an active registration in a
profession relevant to safeguarding (such as nursing, midwifery, teaching or
social work) and have experience working directly with children and
families. Excellent communication
and interpersonal skills are essential.
Main duties of the job
The Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner will
be an autonomous practitioner, working across the city to support the health
care workforce to develop the knowledge, skills, and competence in
safeguarding.
The successful applicant will need to
demonstrate knowledge and skill in relation to current evidence based
safeguarding practice and be able to transfer this into practice.
The
successful applicant will be providing safeguarding supervision, development
and delivery of training, advice, and support to the workforce, actively
encouraging and supporting front line staff to apply the Mental Capacity Act to
clinical practice and adopt a Think Family approach, considering the needs of
the whole family unit when providing care.
The successful
applicant will participate
in internal and external meetings, working with a variety of multi-agency
professionals. They will also assist with policy and procedural development,
audit, and incident reviews.
You will be required to adhere to CityCares
safeguarding and domestic sexual violence and abuse (DSVA) processes and
policies, current legislation, and national and local guidance/procedures.
Support for MASH health
Attendance at MARAC (Multi-Agency Risk
Assessment Conference) for survivors of high-risk domestic abuse.
Car
owner and driving licence essential with an ability to travel across sites.
Interview date 23.3.26
About us
We are a
provider of NHS Community Health Services, CityCare exists to support the
health and wellbeing of all local people, working alongside other health and
care partners to achieve this. We are a value driven, people business with a
passion for excellence. Our vision and social purpose is to make a difference
everyday to the health & wellbeing of our communities and our values of
kindness, respect, trust and honesty lie at the heart of everything we do,
guiding how we work together with partners and each other to consistently
deliver high quality compassionate care. As a social enterprise we aim to add
social value by investing in the future of our local communities and helping to
make a difference in peoples lives.
CityCare value
the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications
from candidates who identify as disabled, LGBT+ or from a Black, Asian or
Minority Ethnic (BAME) background, as they are currently under-represented
within our organisation.
We are proud to be a forces-friendly
organisation and are dedicated to supporting Veterans, Service Leavers, Reservists, and
military spouses/partners. We value the unique skills and contributions you
bring.
CityCare is an
equal opportunities employer. We are positive about employing people with
disabilities. If you require your application in a different format please
contact People Services on 0115 8839418. CityCare is committed to the
protection of vulnerable adults and children.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
- To work within the integrated safeguarding team supporting staff across Nottingham CityCare Partnership to perform their safeguarding duties within the Think Family model.
- To support the development of safeguarding practice across the organisation, through the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of safeguarding processes, and in response to learnings derived from local and national incidents.
- To communicate effectively with staff of all levels and with multi-agency partners to share information, escalate concerns and effectively feedback from safeguarding meetings and forums.
- To support in the development and delivery of Safeguarding Children, Adult and Domestic Abuse training to ensure staff have the skills and knowledge required to perform their roles in line with current legislation and guidance.
Dimensions
- You will work in the team base to cover the Duty service on a rotational basis, and you will work in any of the team bases across the city to support staff within the organisation.
- You will support in undertaking audits and reviews and implementing action plans and lessons learned across the organisation.
- You will attend a variety of multi-agency safeguarding meetings and act as representative for Nottingham CityCare Partnership and have responsibility for sharing, receiving, and disseminating relevant information.
- You will be responsible for security of goods/equipment needed for training laptop, projector, screen, training materials.
- You will be responsible for the provision and evaluation of training.
Key Responsibilities
- The post holder will work with a range of key professionals and partner agencies to contribute to the on-going implementation of safeguarding practice to protect and promote the welfare of children, young people, adults at risk and those experiencing domestic abuse.
- Provide safeguarding advice to CityCare staff from both Children and Adult services through delivery of the Safeguarding Teams duty advice service.
- Actively encourage and support frontline staff to adopt a Think Family approach and consider the needs of dependents or other significant people in the patient's network/household when providing care.
- Support and advise the safeguarding reporting and management process.
- Ensure front-line practitioners are appropriately advised regarding the principles and application of safe and legal information sharing within a safeguarding arena.
- Actively contribute to working groups and other relevant corporate and service delivery groups and committees to achieve positive outcomes in relation to safeguarding.
- Demonstrate knowledge and skill in current evidenced-based safeguarding practice and the ability to transfer this into practice through the provision of advice and other duties.
- Advise, inform and escalate safeguarding concerns to the Safeguarding Lead Professional or Named Nurse for Safeguarding/Head of Safeguarding as appropriate.
- Report verbally and in writing any accidents, complaints, untoward incidents and near misses as per policy.
- Be an active member of the CityCare safeguarding network and wider safeguarding forums/networks as appropriate and engage in supervision with the Safeguarding Lead Professional
- Assist the service to gather evidence to provide internal and external assurance as required and assess organisational and service position in relation to safeguarding standards.
- To support CityCare's contribution to the MARAC process through record reviews, MARAC attendance and multi-agency safety planning.
- The post holder may be required to support the ongoing delivery of the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) Health.
Communication
- Provide advice and appropriate safeguarding supervision to clinical and non-clinical staff at the point of need regarding safeguarding children, adults at risk, and domestic abuse, working pro-actively and reactively to engage frontline staff.
- Provide advice to staff on consent, capacity to consent and information sharing in relation to safeguarding.
- Support staff with reporting, both written and verbal accounts, for formal safeguarding processes, including child protection conferences, child in need meetings, strategy discussions/ meetings, police statements, court statements or hearings; and the co-ordination of multi-agency meetings that support safeguarding processes.
- Effectively contribute to multi-agency panel meetings, and internal and external safeguarding meetings as required.
- Support frontline staff to respectfully challenge decision making, utilising the escalation process as necessary.
- To contribute towards the identification of any learning from serious incidents involving CityCare, communicating this both verbally and in writing and supporting the implementation of action plans to support improved outcomes for patients.
Policies and Procedures
- Implementation of all local and national safeguarding policies, procedures, and guidance.
- Ensure that staff are familiar with organisational policy and local safeguarding procedures and that these are being followed where actual or potential harm is identified.
- Contribute to the review, development, and implementation of CityCares safeguarding relevant procedures and policies, to ensure alignment with national guidance and Local Safeguarding Partnership/Board and where consultation with other CityCare services may be required to develop procedures that make a difference to the health and wellbeing of patients and represent realistic expectations of service delivery.
Training
- Contribute to the development, co-ordination, delivery, and evaluation of the CityCare safeguarding training strategy and programme in line with the CityCare safeguarding training matrix and Core Skills Framework, in conjunction with Safeguarding Lead Professionals and Safeguarding Partners.
- Monitor, audit, and review training delivered to ensure that training meets the needs of CityCare staff and is of a consistently high standard that remains contemporaneous with current evidence base and local and national guidance.
- Participate in the delivery of both CityCare specific safeguarding training and multi-agency training where appropriate
Monitoring
- Support the Safeguarding Leads and Head of Safeguarding to arrange, develop and co-ordinate systems of audit to monitor the agreed local and national policies and procedures, audits, and inspection in order to evaluate and improve the quality and effectiveness of safeguarding practice within CityCare.
- Assist with the collection of data in Rapid Reviews, Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews and Serious Incident investigations, including producing chronologies and taking accounts from staff.
- Support the implementation of recommendations from internal and external safeguarding reviews.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
- To work within the integrated safeguarding team supporting staff across Nottingham CityCare Partnership to perform their safeguarding duties within the Think Family model.
- To support the development of safeguarding practice across the organisation, through the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of safeguarding processes, and in response to learnings derived from local and national incidents.
- To communicate effectively with staff of all levels and with multi-agency partners to share information, escalate concerns and effectively feedback from safeguarding meetings and forums.
- To support in the development and delivery of Safeguarding Children, Adult and Domestic Abuse training to ensure staff have the skills and knowledge required to perform their roles in line with current legislation and guidance.
Dimensions
- You will work in the team base to cover the Duty service on a rotational basis, and you will work in any of the team bases across the city to support staff within the organisation.
- You will support in undertaking audits and reviews and implementing action plans and lessons learned across the organisation.
- You will attend a variety of multi-agency safeguarding meetings and act as representative for Nottingham CityCare Partnership and have responsibility for sharing, receiving, and disseminating relevant information.
- You will be responsible for security of goods/equipment needed for training laptop, projector, screen, training materials.
- You will be responsible for the provision and evaluation of training.
Key Responsibilities
- The post holder will work with a range of key professionals and partner agencies to contribute to the on-going implementation of safeguarding practice to protect and promote the welfare of children, young people, adults at risk and those experiencing domestic abuse.
- Provide safeguarding advice to CityCare staff from both Children and Adult services through delivery of the Safeguarding Teams duty advice service.
- Actively encourage and support frontline staff to adopt a Think Family approach and consider the needs of dependents or other significant people in the patient's network/household when providing care.
- Support and advise the safeguarding reporting and management process.
- Ensure front-line practitioners are appropriately advised regarding the principles and application of safe and legal information sharing within a safeguarding arena.
- Actively contribute to working groups and other relevant corporate and service delivery groups and committees to achieve positive outcomes in relation to safeguarding.
- Demonstrate knowledge and skill in current evidenced-based safeguarding practice and the ability to transfer this into practice through the provision of advice and other duties.
- Advise, inform and escalate safeguarding concerns to the Safeguarding Lead Professional or Named Nurse for Safeguarding/Head of Safeguarding as appropriate.
- Report verbally and in writing any accidents, complaints, untoward incidents and near misses as per policy.
- Be an active member of the CityCare safeguarding network and wider safeguarding forums/networks as appropriate and engage in supervision with the Safeguarding Lead Professional
- Assist the service to gather evidence to provide internal and external assurance as required and assess organisational and service position in relation to safeguarding standards.
- To support CityCare's contribution to the MARAC process through record reviews, MARAC attendance and multi-agency safety planning.
- The post holder may be required to support the ongoing delivery of the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) Health.
Communication
- Provide advice and appropriate safeguarding supervision to clinical and non-clinical staff at the point of need regarding safeguarding children, adults at risk, and domestic abuse, working pro-actively and reactively to engage frontline staff.
- Provide advice to staff on consent, capacity to consent and information sharing in relation to safeguarding.
- Support staff with reporting, both written and verbal accounts, for formal safeguarding processes, including child protection conferences, child in need meetings, strategy discussions/ meetings, police statements, court statements or hearings; and the co-ordination of multi-agency meetings that support safeguarding processes.
- Effectively contribute to multi-agency panel meetings, and internal and external safeguarding meetings as required.
- Support frontline staff to respectfully challenge decision making, utilising the escalation process as necessary.
- To contribute towards the identification of any learning from serious incidents involving CityCare, communicating this both verbally and in writing and supporting the implementation of action plans to support improved outcomes for patients.
Policies and Procedures
- Implementation of all local and national safeguarding policies, procedures, and guidance.
- Ensure that staff are familiar with organisational policy and local safeguarding procedures and that these are being followed where actual or potential harm is identified.
- Contribute to the review, development, and implementation of CityCares safeguarding relevant procedures and policies, to ensure alignment with national guidance and Local Safeguarding Partnership/Board and where consultation with other CityCare services may be required to develop procedures that make a difference to the health and wellbeing of patients and represent realistic expectations of service delivery.
Training
- Contribute to the development, co-ordination, delivery, and evaluation of the CityCare safeguarding training strategy and programme in line with the CityCare safeguarding training matrix and Core Skills Framework, in conjunction with Safeguarding Lead Professionals and Safeguarding Partners.
- Monitor, audit, and review training delivered to ensure that training meets the needs of CityCare staff and is of a consistently high standard that remains contemporaneous with current evidence base and local and national guidance.
- Participate in the delivery of both CityCare specific safeguarding training and multi-agency training where appropriate
Monitoring
- Support the Safeguarding Leads and Head of Safeguarding to arrange, develop and co-ordinate systems of audit to monitor the agreed local and national policies and procedures, audits, and inspection in order to evaluate and improve the quality and effectiveness of safeguarding practice within CityCare.
- Assist with the collection of data in Rapid Reviews, Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews and Serious Incident investigations, including producing chronologies and taking accounts from staff.
- Support the implementation of recommendations from internal and external safeguarding reviews.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of supporting change
- Experience of Supervision
- Experience of managing multi-agency working / relationships
- Sound working knowledge of safeguarding and its application
- Extensive experience working with families and young people who are receiving multiagency services
- Experience working with families who are being supported through Supporting Families Programme
- Experience of leading change within a multi-agency setting
Desirable
- Experience in undertaking research / audit/ reviews
- Ability to organise / chair multidisciplinary meetings
- Ability to conduct audit and management reviews
- Experience of delivering improvements to improve the lives of children and young people
Qualifications
Essential
- First Level Registered Practitioner
- Two years experience with responsibility for a safeguarding caseload
- Evidence of relevant professional development
- Completion of Level 3 Safeguarding training
Desirable
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- Mentorship Qualification
- Supervision Qualification
- Teaching Qualification
- Expanded Safeguarding Training
Special Requirements
Essential
- Ability to be flexible over hours worked within contracted hours to meet the needs of the service
- An ability to travel across a number of sites within the working day
Skills & Attributes
Essential
- Sound working knowledge regarding the recognition and impact of abuse and neglect, capacity, and consent
- Reflective Practitioner and ability to facilitate reflective practice in others
- Understanding of national policy in relation to safeguarding children, adults at risk and domestic abuse
- Good working knowledge of local safeguarding procedures
- Good working knowledge of the Threshold of Needs document
- Ability to represent the organisation as appropriately delegated by safeguarding leads
- Ability to be self-motivating and work as an effective member of wider organisational teams
- Ability to prioritise and deliver within tight timescales
- Effective written and oral communication skills
- Effective influencing and negotiating skills
- Able to challenge poor practice and deal with conflict
- Commitment to continuing professional development for self and others to support succession planning
- Ability to recognise own need for support and supervision
- Ability to exercise initiative
- Adaptable and flexible
- Self-motivated
- Emotional awareness and resilience
- Problem solving skills
- Networking skills
- IT/keyboard skills
Desirable
- Demonstrates understanding of motivating and developing teams and individuals
- Proven ability to manage complex problems
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding and commitment to the current issues affecting the delivery of safeguarding services
- Willingness to develop the range and scope of the post as services change
- Knowledge of the principles of trauma-informed practice and experience of implementing these principles in the practitioners own safeguarding practice or in previous organisations
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of supporting change
- Experience of Supervision
- Experience of managing multi-agency working / relationships
- Sound working knowledge of safeguarding and its application
- Extensive experience working with families and young people who are receiving multiagency services
- Experience working with families who are being supported through Supporting Families Programme
- Experience of leading change within a multi-agency setting
Desirable
- Experience in undertaking research / audit/ reviews
- Ability to organise / chair multidisciplinary meetings
- Ability to conduct audit and management reviews
- Experience of delivering improvements to improve the lives of children and young people
Qualifications
Essential
- First Level Registered Practitioner
- Two years experience with responsibility for a safeguarding caseload
- Evidence of relevant professional development
- Completion of Level 3 Safeguarding training
Desirable
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- Mentorship Qualification
- Supervision Qualification
- Teaching Qualification
- Expanded Safeguarding Training
Special Requirements
Essential
- Ability to be flexible over hours worked within contracted hours to meet the needs of the service
- An ability to travel across a number of sites within the working day
Skills & Attributes
Essential
- Sound working knowledge regarding the recognition and impact of abuse and neglect, capacity, and consent
- Reflective Practitioner and ability to facilitate reflective practice in others
- Understanding of national policy in relation to safeguarding children, adults at risk and domestic abuse
- Good working knowledge of local safeguarding procedures
- Good working knowledge of the Threshold of Needs document
- Ability to represent the organisation as appropriately delegated by safeguarding leads
- Ability to be self-motivating and work as an effective member of wider organisational teams
- Ability to prioritise and deliver within tight timescales
- Effective written and oral communication skills
- Effective influencing and negotiating skills
- Able to challenge poor practice and deal with conflict
- Commitment to continuing professional development for self and others to support succession planning
- Ability to recognise own need for support and supervision
- Ability to exercise initiative
- Adaptable and flexible
- Self-motivated
- Emotional awareness and resilience
- Problem solving skills
- Networking skills
- IT/keyboard skills
Desirable
- Demonstrates understanding of motivating and developing teams and individuals
- Proven ability to manage complex problems
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding and commitment to the current issues affecting the delivery of safeguarding services
- Willingness to develop the range and scope of the post as services change
- Knowledge of the principles of trauma-informed practice and experience of implementing these principles in the practitioners own safeguarding practice or in previous organisations
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
