ED Navigator - 6 Months Fixed Term

Transformation Unit; Lancashire; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Safeguarding Practitioner for children and adults. The role is based in the emergency department, supporting victims of serious violence and functioning as a key member of the multi-agency safeguarding team to ensure health needs are included in assessments.

The post holder will work with the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children and other agencies to improve outcomes.

Qualifications

• Qualified nurse (RGN/RMN/RM) with proactive personal and professional development.
• Degree-level education is required and ongoing professional development is expected.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are essential for safeguarding work.

Responsibilities

• Develop inter-disciplinary and inter-agency communication to improve outcomes for vulnerable individuals.
• Support victims of serious violence in the ED and collaborate with safeguarding teams and partner agencies.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Presentation skills

Teamwork

Leadership & critical thinking

IT & Office suite

Education

RN/RMN/RM

Professional development

Degree level education

Job description

Main area Safeguarding Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Fixed term: 6 months (NA) Hours

• Full time
• Job share
• Other

37.5 hours per week (mixture of early shift, late shifts and weekends) Job ref 382-COR56-26

Employer Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site blackpool teaching hospitals Town Blackpool Salary £32,073 - £39,043 pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 18/11/2026 23:59

ED Navigator - 6 Months Fixed Term

NHS AfC: Band 5

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 flexitime working can be explored.

Job overview

We are looking for an experienced Safeguarding Practitioner for children and adults, ensuring delivery of improved health outcomes for those at risk of harm from serious violence. The post holder will be based within the emergency department and will support victims of serious violence, whilst being an integral member of the multi-agency safeguarding team, ensuring that the health needs of this most vulnerable group are included in any multi‑agency assessments. The post-holder will maximise positive outcomes for identified victims by building trusted relationships and supporting victims at a reachable and teachable moment. The post holder will work closely with ED staff, the Safeguarding Team, Police, Social Care and community services to ensure positive outcomes for victims. The post holder will work closely with the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children to ensure appropriate quality assurance mechanisms are in place and to assist in the development and raising awareness of serious violence and knife crime across the Trust and support available through the ED navigator.

Main duties of the job

The scope of the post will include the development of effective inter-disciplinary and inter‑agency communication and relationships to improve outcomes for vulnerable children and adults, who are victims of serious violence. The post holder will need to be a motivated and dynamic professional with experience of working with complex safeguarding issues. Excellent communication skills and the ability to work as part of a team are essential requirements of this post, as is the ability to work a varying shift pattern to cover the service 7 days a week and during unsociable hours.

Working for our organisation

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 a 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 flexitime working can be explored.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Safeguarding Practitioner for both children and adults will ensure the delivery of improved health outcomes for those at risk of harm from serious violence are provided. The post holder will be based within the emergency department and will support victims of serious violence, whilst being an integral member of the multi‑agency safeguarding team, ensuring that the health needs of this most vulnerable group are included in any multi‑agency assessments. The post-holder will maximise positive outcomes for identified victims by building trusted relationships and supporting victims at a reachable and teachable moment. The post holder will work closely with ED staff, the Safeguarding Team, Police, Social Care and community services to ensure positive outcomes for victims. The post holder will work closely with the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children to ensure appropriate quality assurance mechanisms are in place and to assist in the development and raising awareness of serious violence and knife crime across the Trust and support available through the ED navigator.

Person specification

Education and Qualification

• RGN, RMN or RM
• Evidence of proactive personal and professional development
• Educated to degree level

Experience and Knowledge

• Knowledge and experience of reachable and teachable moments and trusted relationship models in practice
• Have substantial safeguarding experience
• Experience working with children and adults who are vulnerable and have complex safeguarding concerns including risk of exploitation
• Experience of dealing with safeguarding incidents.
• A good understanding of the importance of confidentiality and safeguarding
• Experience of participating in clinical and safeguarding supervision.
• Experience of participating and undertaking audits.
• Experience in dealing with highly contentious and emotive information
• Working knowledge of key legislation and policy relating to safeguarding children and safeguarding adults.
• Knowledge and understanding of the key issues facing victims of serious violence.
• Understanding the needs of culturally diverse communities and other hard to reach groups.
• Ability to work independently, but also a team player, able to contribute to the wider mission of the Organisation.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Demonstrate highly developed presentation skills and the ability to present information and training to large groups of staff –single or multi agency training
• Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Understanding of the principles of a trauma informed approach to care and the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on young people and adults
• Excellent leadership and critical thinking skills
• Ability to use community and acute IT patient systems

Skills and Ability

• Excellent written, IT and communication skills, including report writing, presentations and use of Microsoft IT packages (Excel / PowerPoint / Word etc)
• Ability to motivate and empower colleagues.
• Ability to work in partnership, network, influence, problem solve, overcome barriers and apply solution focused approaches.
• Effective interpersonal and influencing skills including being able to communicate effectively across all disciplines and partner agencies
• Good understanding of the NHS, social care and police including the political, strategic and operational environment in which it operates.

If the role you have applied for requires a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check we will administer this as part of your pre-employment checks. Please note, you will be required to repay the cost on appointment. This will be collected via a salary deduction. You can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months from your salary or as a one-off payment on commencement in post. The level of check required depends on the role that you have been offered. Currently the charges are - Basic DBS check £24, Standard DBS check £24 and Enhanced DBS check £45.

You are encouraged where possible, to register for the DBS update service. This is an annual registration fee of £15. By registering for the update service you will not have the additional cost of repeated disclosures.

Should you withdraw your application, you may be required to reimburse the cost of the DBS check.

DBS checks remain free of charge for volunteer positions.

By submitting an application for this vacancy you are confirming your agreement to the above in the event you are successfully appointed.

The DBS Code of Practice can be accessed here .

Please ensure that you read the Person Specification attached below as your application will be judged against this.

Please note that every effort will be made to keep the vacancy live until published closing date, though there may be instances where such interest is generated, that for administrative reasons the post may close earlier.

Please note that in line with national NHS guidelines this Trust operates a strict non-smoking policy. Members of staff are not permitted to smoke on Trust premises or grounds at any time nor take breaks during working hours for the purposes of smoking.

The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.