Safeguarding Specialist Practitioner - Children and Young People

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking a dedicated and experienced Specialist Practitioner to join our team, focusing on safeguarding children and young people. This role is pivotal in ensuring excellence in safeguarding practices throughout the Trust.

Key Responsibilities:

• Safeguarding Excellence:Ensure robust safeguarding processes within the Trust's clinical governance framework.
• Expert Advice:Provide expert advice and support on safeguarding issues to the Trust.
• Clinical Supervision:Actively maintain safeguarding clinical supervision processes.
• Staff Support:Assist staff with day-to-day safeguarding concerns and multi-agency liaison and planning.
• Service Delivery:Deliver high-quality safeguarding expertise, offering professional advice, support, and education to the multi-professional team.
• Communication:Convey and present complex information both written and verbally, formally and informally.
• Policy Development:Collaborate with Named Professionals to develop evidence-based patient care policies and procedures.
• Training Strategy:Implement and deliver the Trust-wide safeguarding training strategy, ensuring all staff receive the necessary education and training.
• Evaluation: Record, monitor, and evaluate the effectiveness of the safeguarding training strategy.

If you are passionate about safeguarding, we would love to hear from you.

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Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.