Job summary
The post holder will work as part of the Safeguarding team to ensure that the Trust achieves full compliance against key local and national standards for the safeguarding of children and adults; and will have the knowledge and skills to be able to provide expert, relevant and tested advice and support in line with statutory duties and NHS contractual requirements to frontline staff and managers.
The post holder is a highly developed clinical specialist for safeguarding adults and children as defined in the intercollegiate documents for adults and children[1]. The post holder will work autonomously and
provide specialist safeguarding advice within the organisation, working in collaboration with partner agencies, on health and social care issues to support and facilitate the safeguarding of adults and children in line with national legislation and local guidelines. The post holder is required to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information where significant barriers to acceptance may need to be overcome using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills.
Main duties of the job
- To provide highly specialist expert safeguarding children and adult advice, clinical and supervisory support to staff within an integrated health organisation on safeguarding issues.
- To Provide and maintain a framework for safeguarding supervision ensuring that advice, support and guidance is given to enable and empower practitioners.
- To be the health representative and work as part of the Multiagency Safeguarding Hub (MASH).
- To provide 1:1 and group safeguarding supervision staff working at level 3 as identified in the Intercollegiate documents for adults and children.
- The review and implementation of nationally agreed best practice, working in collaboration with the Care Group and its services to implement changes to practice which will improve the delivery, effectiveness and efficiencies of safeguarding practice ensuring any changes are regularly reviewed evaluated and reported upon.
- Attend multi-agency meetings as and when required.
- Undertake and participate in internal and multi-agency reviews, audits and inspections of the organisation as necessary
- To establish relationships and networks within the care Group to ensure that there is clear guidance as to whom individuals within the organisation need to contact for advice and support.
- To attend as directed and requested multi-agency safeguarding meetings, to assist and support in the development of inter-agency learning and service development.
About us
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
- Supporting your career development and progression
- Excellent NHS Pension scheme
- Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Options for flexible working
- Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
- If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
- Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
- Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
- Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
- Free car parking at all trust sites
- Free flu vaccinations every year
- Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide highly specialist expert safeguarding children and adult advice, clinical and supervisory support to staff within an integrated health organisation on safeguarding issues. Providing effective leadership and support to MPFT staff on child and adult protection issues and concerns, utilising national legislation, local policies and procedures, research and audit finding and recommendations from serious case reviews. This also includes decision making where professional opinion varies and managing conflict where investigating agencies are reluctant to proceed.
- To Provide and maintain a framework for safeguarding supervision ensuring that advice, support and guidance is given to enable and empower practitioners , often making complex and difficult decisions to resolve sensitive safeguarding issues while retaining overall accountability and responsibility for the advice that has been given. This will include supporting distressed staff and ensuring that specific challenges are dealt with effectively.
- To work alongside staff to ensure that timely safeguarding issues are identified and timely, high-quality referrals are made.
- To be the health representative and work as part of the Multiagency Safeguarding Hub (MASH), contributing to multi-agency discussions and decision making on child and adult protection and safeguarding issues and individual cases, by way of attendance at strategy discussions / planning meetings. Providing expert health care advice / information, to enable assessment of risk and care planning to protect and safeguard adults and children.
- To contribute and participate in multi-agency risk management meetings for vulnerable adults and children, including exploitation panels, multi-agency risk assessment conferences (MARAC), Channel Panel and self-neglect risk assessment meetings. Providing expert health advice and presenting complex and sensitive information. Working in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team to assess and analyse risk and formulate plans to ensure the protection of adults and children, ensuring this information / plan is disseminated to front-line staff.
- To provide 1:1 and group safeguarding supervision staff working at level 3 as identified in the Intercollegiate documents for adults and children. This will contribute to a learning culture with an ethos in which reflective practice and self-questioning are accepted and actively promoted. This will ensure the organisation is delivering safe and effective safeguarding practice and embedding the think family approach to safeguarding.
- Work alongside teams to ensure they are able to identify and make timely Safeguarding referrals.
- Investigate and respond to accidents, complaints and serious untoward incidents relating to safeguarding which may be distressing in nature, including Safeguarding Adult Reviews or Safeguarding Practice Reviews following the death or serious injury of a child or adult. Producing and integrated chronology of managed health services contact with the child/adult and/or their family.
- Participate in root cause analysis reviews and section 42 enquiries including analysing and interpreting a range of facts/situations to determine an appropriate response. This could include interviewing the client/patient that has suffered harm, the source of risk (SOR) or team involved and examination of records.
- To initiate internal enquiries when concerns have been raised to the local authority about care provided by MPFT. This could include concerns about a person in a position of trust and require liaison with the Local Authority Designated officer (LADO) or Designated Adult Safeguarding Manager (DASM). The outcome of these enquiries will require feedback to be given to the risk team and the Local Authority.
- The post holder will be exposed to distressing verbal and written information and will require significant concentration.
- The review and implementation of nationally agreed best practice, working in collaboration with the Care Group and its services to implement changes to practice which will improve the delivery, effectiveness and efficiencies of safeguarding practice ensuring any changes are regularly reviewed evaluated and reported upon.
- Provide assurance that changes to practice as required have taken place.
- Provide specialist clinical input and knowledge into the review of safeguarding policies, to ensure that they reflect statutory requirements and legal recommendations of local and national enquiries.
- Attend multi-agency meetings as and when required.
- Keep clinicians and managers informed about practice changes in relation to safeguarding.
- Undertake and participate in internal and multi-agency reviews, audits and inspections of the organisation as necessary
- Maintain standards in relation to patient safety, by advising professionals on clinical safeguarding issues and to advise the Safeguarding Lead should any gaps or risks in safeguarding practice be identified in order to influence strategic policy, risk management and decision making.
- To establish relationships and networks within the care Group to ensure that there is clear guidance as to whom individuals within the organisation need to contact for advice and support.
- Contribute towards the development of safeguarding reports to the Trust Board and external Boards as required.
- Contributing to the writing of reports and support shared learning and implementation of any changes required following findings and recommendations from Serious Case Review/significant incident process.
- To attend as directed and requested multi-agency safeguarding meetings, to assist and support in the development of inter-agency learning and service development.
- To abide by the relevant Code of Conduct and Standards of Practice relating to the professionals qualification.
- To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of the relevant professional practice.
- To maintain own clinical professional development (CPD) by keeping up to date with research evidence, audit outcomes, national guidelines, and incorporating them into their own practice. Thus ensuring that the skills and expertise required for the post are maintained and enhanced.
- Receive and deliver highly complex and sensitive information where there may be barriers to understanding including where there may be concerns raised in relation to trust staff.
- Responsible for maintaining own equipment.
- Manage emotionally demanding work on a daily basis that is frequently distressing and stressful.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide highly specialist expert safeguarding children and adult advice, clinical and supervisory support to staff within an integrated health organisation on safeguarding issues. Providing effective leadership and support to MPFT staff on child and adult protection issues and concerns, utilising national legislation, local policies and procedures, research and audit finding and recommendations from serious case reviews. This also includes decision making where professional opinion varies and managing conflict where investigating agencies are reluctant to proceed.
- To Provide and maintain a framework for safeguarding supervision ensuring that advice, support and guidance is given to enable and empower practitioners , often making complex and difficult decisions to resolve sensitive safeguarding issues while retaining overall accountability and responsibility for the advice that has been given. This will include supporting distressed staff and ensuring that specific challenges are dealt with effectively.
- To work alongside staff to ensure that timely safeguarding issues are identified and timely, high-quality referrals are made.
- To be the health representative and work as part of the Multiagency Safeguarding Hub (MASH), contributing to multi-agency discussions and decision making on child and adult protection and safeguarding issues and individual cases, by way of attendance at strategy discussions / planning meetings. Providing expert health care advice / information, to enable assessment of risk and care planning to protect and safeguard adults and children.
- To contribute and participate in multi-agency risk management meetings for vulnerable adults and children, including exploitation panels, multi-agency risk assessment conferences (MARAC), Channel Panel and self-neglect risk assessment meetings. Providing expert health advice and presenting complex and sensitive information. Working in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team to assess and analyse risk and formulate plans to ensure the protection of adults and children, ensuring this information / plan is disseminated to front-line staff.
- To provide 1:1 and group safeguarding supervision staff working at level 3 as identified in the Intercollegiate documents for adults and children. This will contribute to a learning culture with an ethos in which reflective practice and self-questioning are accepted and actively promoted. This will ensure the organisation is delivering safe and effective safeguarding practice and embedding the think family approach to safeguarding.
- Work alongside teams to ensure they are able to identify and make timely Safeguarding referrals.
- Investigate and respond to accidents, complaints and serious untoward incidents relating to safeguarding which may be distressing in nature, including Safeguarding Adult Reviews or Safeguarding Practice Reviews following the death or serious injury of a child or adult. Producing and integrated chronology of managed health services contact with the child/adult and/or their family.
- Participate in root cause analysis reviews and section 42 enquiries including analysing and interpreting a range of facts/situations to determine an appropriate response. This could include interviewing the client/patient that has suffered harm, the source of risk (SOR) or team involved and examination of records.
- To initiate internal enquiries when concerns have been raised to the local authority about care provided by MPFT. This could include concerns about a person in a position of trust and require liaison with the Local Authority Designated officer (LADO) or Designated Adult Safeguarding Manager (DASM). The outcome of these enquiries will require feedback to be given to the risk team and the Local Authority.
- The post holder will be exposed to distressing verbal and written information and will require significant concentration.
- The review and implementation of nationally agreed best practice, working in collaboration with the Care Group and its services to implement changes to practice which will improve the delivery, effectiveness and efficiencies of safeguarding practice ensuring any changes are regularly reviewed evaluated and reported upon.
- Provide assurance that changes to practice as required have taken place.
- Provide specialist clinical input and knowledge into the review of safeguarding policies, to ensure that they reflect statutory requirements and legal recommendations of local and national enquiries.
- Attend multi-agency meetings as and when required.
- Keep clinicians and managers informed about practice changes in relation to safeguarding.
- Undertake and participate in internal and multi-agency reviews, audits and inspections of the organisation as necessary
- Maintain standards in relation to patient safety, by advising professionals on clinical safeguarding issues and to advise the Safeguarding Lead should any gaps or risks in safeguarding practice be identified in order to influence strategic policy, risk management and decision making.
- To establish relationships and networks within the care Group to ensure that there is clear guidance as to whom individuals within the organisation need to contact for advice and support.
- Contribute towards the development of safeguarding reports to the Trust Board and external Boards as required.
- Contributing to the writing of reports and support shared learning and implementation of any changes required following findings and recommendations from Serious Case Review/significant incident process.
- To attend as directed and requested multi-agency safeguarding meetings, to assist and support in the development of inter-agency learning and service development.
- To abide by the relevant Code of Conduct and Standards of Practice relating to the professionals qualification.
- To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of the relevant professional practice.
- To maintain own clinical professional development (CPD) by keeping up to date with research evidence, audit outcomes, national guidelines, and incorporating them into their own practice. Thus ensuring that the skills and expertise required for the post are maintained and enhanced.
- Receive and deliver highly complex and sensitive information where there may be barriers to understanding including where there may be concerns raised in relation to trust staff.
- Responsible for maintaining own equipment.
- Manage emotionally demanding work on a daily basis that is frequently distressing and stressful.
Person Specification
Professional Relevent Qualification
Essential
- Professional Relevant Qualification
Experience of working with complex safeguarding cases
Essential
- Experience of working with complex safeguarding cases
Willing to work toward MA Safeguarding
Desirable
- Willing to work toward MA Safeguarding
Person Specification
Professional Relevent Qualification
Essential
- Professional Relevant Qualification
Experience of working with complex safeguarding cases
Essential
- Experience of working with complex safeguarding cases
Willing to work toward MA Safeguarding
Desirable
- Willing to work toward MA Safeguarding
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
