Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner - Children

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. The All Age Specialist Safeguarding Practitioner - Children is a subject matter expert who provides specialist advice and guidance to staff across North Bristol Trust (NBT) on safeguarding children, safeguarding adults, and the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) .They will be expected to provide safeguarding knowledge and expertise in demonstrating a sound understanding of the issues relating to identification, assessment, management and review of safeguarding concerns for children and adults.

2. The specialist safeguarding practitioner - children contributes to quality assurance, leads on section 47 safeguarding enquiries, provides training and supervision, and liaises with multi-agency partners.

3. This role involves making operational decisions in complex and challenging situations, ensuring adherence to the statutory framework for children (Children Act 1989/2004) and its intersection with MCA and best interest processes in addition to monitoring and improving standards of care through safeguarding leadership, supervision, audit, evidence-based practice, training and the provision of safeguarding advice and support. This also includes applicable knowledge for Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS).

4. They play a crucial role in maintaining accurate patient databases, developing policies, and promoting a culture of transparency and equality.

5. They act as a role model, promote best practices, and contribute to the implementation of new regulations, and will deputise for the Named Nurse/Named Professional in their absence.

See Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional Registration NMC, HCPC, SWE
• CPD requirements maintained
• Degree level education supplemented by post-graduate diploma specialist training, experience, short courses, plus further specialist training to master's equivalent level.

Knowledge

Essential

• Extensive knowledge of safeguarding children's legislation and the mental capacity act. Knowledge of the Care Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
• Proven ability to provide specialist education and training in safeguarding children.
• IT skills for developing and delivering teaching programs.
• Highly developed specialist knowledge in safeguarding children underpinned by theory and experience.
• Knowledge of Working Together to Safeguard Children and the Children's Act (1989/2004), the Care Act (2014) and Intercollegiate Documents for Safeguarding Adults and Children. Awareness of the NHSE Safeguarding Assurance Framework
• Knowledge of GDPR and Data Protection Act policies

skills and abilities

Essential

• Experience in conducting audits and impact assessments
• Experience in providing leadership, mentorship, coaching, and supervision
• Experience in delivering induction, refresher, and specific safeguarding children training in related topics i.e. Neglect, Exploitation, MCA, domestic abuse, PREVENT
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex safeguarding situations
• Strong communication and relationship skills, including the ability to handle sensitive and contentious information.
• Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams
• Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information to diverse audiences, where English may not be the first language or there may be hostility to the topic under discussion.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Engagement in clinical and safeguarding supervision
• Ability to establish and maintain professional networks

personal qualities

Essential

• Embrace the core values of the organisation and demonstrate an attitude which respects and values patients and their relatives and carers and actively promotes the wellbeing of staff.
• Recognises the harmful effects of discrimination and inequality on health and outcomes for adults and children. Visibly promotes and drives equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Flexible in style and approach to the role to best support individual team members at a time of change.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

North Bristol NHS Trust

Address

North Bristol Trust

Westbury on Trym

Bristol

BS10 5NB

Employer's website

https://www.nbt.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)