Job summary
Are you looking for a change of direction in your career?.
We currently have a vacancy for a Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner to join our busy Safeguarding team. We are looking for someone who is keen to contribute to the delivery of a proactive, responsive, safeguarding service, working in partnership with staff and keystakeholders, to deliver high quality advice, guidance, support and training whilst supporting the Trust's commitment to safeguarding babies, children, young people, and adults at risk
This is a fast paced and diverse role, you will need the ability to think on your feet, be able to positively challenge colleagues and other agencies and have high levels of professional curiosity. If you think you have transferable skills and want to develop a career in safeguarding this may be the job for you!
Main duties of the job
To contribute to the delivery of a proactive, responsive, safeguarding service as part of theNorthumbria Trust wide safeguarding team.
To provide advice, support, clinical supervision and training for clinical and non-clinical staff.
To be responsible for the organising and co-ordination of key pieces of work such as information sharing with internal wards, departments and within wider partnership processes such as MASH (Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub).
To support trust staff and partner agencies to understand safeguarding form a health perspective.
To exercise accountability as set out in the relevant Code of Professional Conduct.
To be responsible for responding to contacts into the team for advice and support and seeking senior advice and support as needed to maintain high service standards.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See attached job description for full information:
To identify and understand risks, analyse and help provide safe plans to care for people who are suffering / at risk of suffering abuse and neglect. This will include unborn babies, babies, children and adults.
To role model effective safeguarding- acting quickly and robustly to respond to risk and keep people safe.
To support Trust staff to understand and react appropriately to safeguarding issues.
Contribute to team assurance functions and data collection activities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See attached job description for full information:
To identify and understand risks, analyse and help provide safe plans to care for people who are suffering / at risk of suffering abuse and neglect. This will include unborn babies, babies, children and adults.
To role model effective safeguarding- acting quickly and robustly to respond to risk and keep people safe.
To support Trust staff to understand and react appropriately to safeguarding issues.
Contribute to team assurance functions and data collection activities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current Professional Qualification to degree or equivalent level with experience of working at an advanced level in relevant subject.
- For registered nurses, must be a registered mentor.
Desirable
- BSc (Hons) relevant to post / equivalent experience.
- Management/leadership qualification / experience
- Experience of providing supervision
- Teaching and assessing qualification.
- Best Interest Qualification
Other
Essential
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current Professional Qualification to degree or equivalent level with experience of working at an advanced level in relevant subject.
- For registered nurses, must be a registered mentor.
Desirable
- BSc (Hons) relevant to post / equivalent experience.
- Management/leadership qualification / experience
- Experience of providing supervision
- Teaching and assessing qualification.
- Best Interest Qualification
Other
Essential
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
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).
