Associate Safeguarding Children’s Practitioner

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 5 practitioner to join the Safeguarding Children's Team. You will support the safeguarding agenda, advocate for children, young people and families, and assist with statutory safeguarding obligations and the safeguarding policies across health services.

The role covers education, clinical support, sensitive communications with partner agencies, and contributing to audits and quality assurance to ensure safeguarding practices are

Responsibilities

• Advocate for children, young people and families within safeguarding processes.
• Support statutory safeguarding obligations across the trust.
• Assist with child protection medical processes and related referrals.
• Contribute to safeguarding audits and quality assurance activities.

Job description

The Band 5 practitioner role within the Safeguarding Children's Team at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust involves supporting the team in advancing the safeguarding agenda and ensuring quality assurance across the trust. Key responsibilities include acting as an advocate for children, young people, and families; helping the trust meet statutory safeguarding obligations; ensuring health services for vulnerable groups follow safeguarding policies; promoting health and well-being education; assisting with child protection medical processes; supporting Safeguarding Children's Nurses and escalating concerns; aiding Children in Care clinics; handling sensitive communications across agencies; fostering effective relationships within and outside the trust; advising external agencies on health matters related to safeguarding; and participating in safeguarding audits.

In summary, the Band 5 practitioner within the Safeguarding Children's Team at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is entrusted with a wide range of responsibilities that collectively support the safeguarding agenda. The role encompasses advocacy, compliance, education, clinical support, communication, collaboration, advisory, and audit functions. Through these activities, the practitioner contributes to the Trust’s efforts to protect vulnerable children and adults, promote their health and well-being, and ensure that safeguarding practices are robust, effective, and aligned with statutory requirements and best practice guidance.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.

We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.

We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexi-time working can be explored.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lily McShane Job title: Named Nurse Safeguarding Children Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01253 958186