Impactful Safeguarding Practitioner (Hybrid)

Wokingham Borough Council; Wokingham; Hybrid; GBP 44,000 - 51,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Leave 30 days

LGPS

Employee Assistance Programme

Onsite Gym

Car & Cycle to Work

Discounts

Move through Menopause

Sports & Social

Job summary

Wokingham Borough Council is seeking a Safeguarding Practitioner to join the adult social care team on a full-time, permanent basis. You will work to ensure adults receive timely help, respond to safeguarding concerns, and support positive outcomes for individuals.

The role is based at Shute End, Wokingham, with a hybrid working model and a generous range of employee benefits. The salary range is £44,253–£50,909 per annum plus benefits.

Qualifications

• Social Work, Nursing or Occupational Therapy qualification or equivalent with safeguarding experience.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to engage stakeholders.
• Experience directly working with Adult Safeguarding issues.
• Organisational skills to enable proactiveness and a responsive service.
• Ability to handle highly sensitive information with confidentiality and information sharing.
• Full EU driving licence (and access to daily use of a car).

Responsibilities

• Respond to Adult Safeguarding concerns, applying thresholds, assessing risk and completing Initial Assessments where needed.
• Lead Section 42 enquiries, coordinating those carried out by providers or partners, and undertaking more complex enquiries yourself when required.
• Support quality assurance work, including provider visits and assurance activity linked to safeguarding concerns.
• Take part in organisational abuse enquiries and contribute to wider learning and improvement.
• Work proactively and preventatively, including supporting partnership projects in line with local and West of Berkshire strategies.
• Help deliver safeguarding training and workshops, appropriate to your experience and knowledge.

Skills

Excellent communication

Direct safeguarding work

Organisational skills

Confidentiality/Information sharing

Driving licence

Education

Social Work / Nursing / OT qualification

Other safeguarding-experienced profession

Job description

Wokingham Borough Council is seeking a Safeguarding Practitioner to join the adult social care team on a full-time, permanent basis. You will work to ensure adults receive timely help, respond to safeguarding concerns, and support positive outcomes for individuals.

The role is based at Shute End, Wokingham, with a hybrid working model and a generous range of employee benefits. The salary range is £44,253–£50,909 per annum plus benefits.