Job summary
We are looking to appoint an experienced, enthusiastic, and highly motivated Social Worker/Nurse to join our Adult Safeguarding team. Permanent, Full time.
Main duties of the job
Portsmouth Adult Safeguarding Team is a fast-paced, dynamic team, committed to promoting individuals' rights and choices, and keeping people in Portsmouth safe. We are looking to appoint an experienced, enthusiastic, and highly motivated Social Worker/Nurse to join our expanding team.
The Adult Safeguarding team work to support safeguarding adults who are experiencing, or are at risk of experiencing, abuse, or neglect, and as such the ideal candidate will:
Be resilient and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
Be able to develop positive and effective relationships with other agencies.
Be passionate about making safeguarding personal.
About us
We really appreciate our
employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer
an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials
with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:
Generous annual leave (27
days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to
purchase additional leave.
A fantastic pension which
allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
Flexible working hours.
Access to a wide range of
training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance
Programme
Discount
on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme.
Discounts on a wide range
of goods and services access a range of discounts and offers from thousands
of restaurants, shops and more.
Staff rewards: https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/working-for-the-council/
Job description
Job responsibilities
Safeguarding Practitioner - Adult Safeguarding
Salary: Band: 9 or 10 dependant on experience
The Service
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated Social Worker or Nurse, to support
in the delivery of a robust and effective safeguarding service for adults in the city of Portsmouth
within the Adult Safeguarding team.
What is the role?
This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic qualified practitioner considering a new challenge
within a multi-agency setting offering advice, guidance, and support to a wide-ranging workforce in
relation to often complex, sensitive and emotive safeguarding concerns.
The post holder will work with a wide range and variety of statutory and non-statutory agencies
including the police, community health teams, residential homes, domiciliary care agencies, acute
hospitals, substance misuse, homeless services, quality teams, CQC and local charities.
Key responsibilities include
The application of professional knowledge, skills, experience, and initiative to demonstrate a
clear understanding of safeguarding in line with the Pan Hampshire Multi-Agency
Safeguarding Adults Policy and The Care Act.
Effective and proactive multi-disciplinary team working and networking across community
organisations and agencies.
Triaging adult safeguarding concerns providing advice, comprehensive actions, and
appropriate delegation within the legal time frame.
To ensure decisions and outcomes are communicated and all relevant information is robustly
documented and shared as appropriate including back to the referrer where no further action
has been taken.
- Official -
Working independently managing own professional caseload. Taking ownership for ongoing
enquiries, reports and investigations including written Section 42 enquiries, non-statutory
enquiries, and Multi Agency Risk Management meetings.
The ability to work with complex practice issues creatively and innovatively ensuring that the
customer's wishes and outcomes are always sought.
Contribution to the development of and participation in the delivery of training, education, and
reflective learning sessions. To actively engage and facilitate learning for other professionals
and students on placement who are shadowing the team.
Experience of facilitating professional supervision and mentoring within the team and previous
experience in a supervisory role.
Representing the Adult Safeguarding team at internal and external forums, meetings and case
reviews as required.
Commitment to evidence based and critically reflective practice and discussion including
evidence of Continual Professional Development.
Who is the person?
You will need to:
1. Hold a professional qualification and appropriate registration in social work or nursing.
2. Have a working legal, theoretical and practice knowledge base, in relation to The Care Act,
Mental Capacity Act, Making Safeguarding Personal and safeguarding adults.
3. Possess robust and comprehensive skills in risk management with a confident ability in
assessing, planning, and recording of sensitive information and data.
4. Involvement and experience of safeguarding practice in your own professional area preferably
with experience of undertaking enquiries into allegations of abuse or neglect.
5. Have a professional curiosity and the ability to negotiate, work creatively and flexibly with
aptitude for innovative decision making.
6. Passionate about putting the customer at the heart of what you do. Understand the needs of
the client group, promoting and supporting individuals' rights and choices with a commitment to
the Making Safeguarding Personal agenda.
7. Demonstrate a range of effective communication skills including the ability to converse with a
diverse range of people sometimes under challenging circumstances or where there may be
barriers to understanding. The ability to produce comprehensive and robust reports in line with
professional and legal timescales.
8. Emotional resilience and the ability to use initiative and to problem solve under pressure with a
'can do' attitude.
9. Commitment to team working and a supportive working environment.
10.Be responsible for own time management and organisation of workload and personal
administration. Be able to work productively in a busy office environment and in response to
competing demands and changing priorities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Safeguarding Practitioner - Adult Safeguarding
Salary: Band: 9 or 10 dependant on experience
The Service
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated Social Worker or Nurse, to support
in the delivery of a robust and effective safeguarding service for adults in the city of Portsmouth
within the Adult Safeguarding team.
What is the role?
This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic qualified practitioner considering a new challenge
within a multi-agency setting offering advice, guidance, and support to a wide-ranging workforce in
relation to often complex, sensitive and emotive safeguarding concerns.
The post holder will work with a wide range and variety of statutory and non-statutory agencies
including the police, community health teams, residential homes, domiciliary care agencies, acute
hospitals, substance misuse, homeless services, quality teams, CQC and local charities.
Key responsibilities include
The application of professional knowledge, skills, experience, and initiative to demonstrate a
clear understanding of safeguarding in line with the Pan Hampshire Multi-Agency
Safeguarding Adults Policy and The Care Act.
Effective and proactive multi-disciplinary team working and networking across community
organisations and agencies.
Triaging adult safeguarding concerns providing advice, comprehensive actions, and
appropriate delegation within the legal time frame.
To ensure decisions and outcomes are communicated and all relevant information is robustly
documented and shared as appropriate including back to the referrer where no further action
has been taken.
- Official -
Working independently managing own professional caseload. Taking ownership for ongoing
enquiries, reports and investigations including written Section 42 enquiries, non-statutory
enquiries, and Multi Agency Risk Management meetings.
The ability to work with complex practice issues creatively and innovatively ensuring that the
customer's wishes and outcomes are always sought.
Contribution to the development of and participation in the delivery of training, education, and
reflective learning sessions. To actively engage and facilitate learning for other professionals
and students on placement who are shadowing the team.
Experience of facilitating professional supervision and mentoring within the team and previous
experience in a supervisory role.
Representing the Adult Safeguarding team at internal and external forums, meetings and case
reviews as required.
Commitment to evidence based and critically reflective practice and discussion including
evidence of Continual Professional Development.
Who is the person?
You will need to:
1. Hold a professional qualification and appropriate registration in social work or nursing.
2. Have a working legal, theoretical and practice knowledge base, in relation to The Care Act,
Mental Capacity Act, Making Safeguarding Personal and safeguarding adults.
3. Possess robust and comprehensive skills in risk management with a confident ability in
assessing, planning, and recording of sensitive information and data.
4. Involvement and experience of safeguarding practice in your own professional area preferably
with experience of undertaking enquiries into allegations of abuse or neglect.
5. Have a professional curiosity and the ability to negotiate, work creatively and flexibly with
aptitude for innovative decision making.
6. Passionate about putting the customer at the heart of what you do. Understand the needs of
the client group, promoting and supporting individuals' rights and choices with a commitment to
the Making Safeguarding Personal agenda.
7. Demonstrate a range of effective communication skills including the ability to converse with a
diverse range of people sometimes under challenging circumstances or where there may be
barriers to understanding. The ability to produce comprehensive and robust reports in line with
professional and legal timescales.
8. Emotional resilience and the ability to use initiative and to problem solve under pressure with a
'can do' attitude.
9. Commitment to team working and a supportive working environment.
10.Be responsible for own time management and organisation of workload and personal
administration. Be able to work productively in a busy office environment and in response to
competing demands and changing priorities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Hold a professional qualification and appropriate registration in social work or nursing.
- Have a working legal, theoretical and practice knowledge base, in relation to The Care Act,
- Mental Capacity Act, Making Safeguarding Personal and safeguarding adults.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Hold a professional qualification and appropriate registration in social work or nursing.
- Have a working legal, theoretical and practice knowledge base, in relation to The Care Act,
- Mental Capacity Act, Making Safeguarding Personal and safeguarding adults.
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).
